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Shinji Ohara is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant concentration in neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, physiology, and immunology.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics including:

  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Nuclear Receptors and Signaling
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments
  • Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Shinji Ohara has authored multiple papers with notable publications such as:

  • "Improvement of Blood Plasmalogens and Clinical Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease by Oral Administration of Ether Phospholipids: A Preliminary Report" (2020) published in Parkinson s Disease
  • "PLA2G6 variants associated with the number of affected alleles in Parkinson's disease in Japan" (2020) published in Neurobiology of Aging
  • "Stage-dependent immunity orchestrates AQP4 antibody-guided NMOSD pathology: a role for netting neutrophils with resident memory T cells in situ" (2024) published in Acta Neuropathologica
  • "Ictal asystole as a manifestation of pure insular epilepsy" (2021) published in Seizure
  • "Stereo-electroencephalography evidence of an eccentrically located seizure-onset zone around a polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumor of the young: illustrative case" (2022) published in Journal of Neurosurgery Case Lessons

The publication venues in which Shinji Ohara frequently appears include:

  • Journal of Neurosurgery Case Lessons
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Parkinson s Disease
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Acta Neuropathologica

Frequent collaborators in research are:

  • Hiroshi Shigeto
  • Koichi Hagiwara
  • Ayako Miyoshi
  • Takashi Kamada
  • Naoki Akamatsu

This collaboration network reflects interdisciplinary work spanning neurology, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative disease treatment and mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Mitochondrial angiopathy in cerebral blood vessels of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy.

    E. Ohama;S. Ohara;F. Ikuta;K. Tanaka

  • Movement-related change of electrocorticographic activity in human supplementary motor area proper

    Shinji Ohara;Akio Ikeda;Takeharu Kunieda;Shogo Yazawa

  • Primary somatosensory cortex is actively involved in pain processing in human

    Masutaro Kanda;Takashi Nagamine;Akio Ikeda;Shinji Ohara

  • Cognitive motor control in human pre-supplementary motor area studied by subdural recording of discrimination/selection-related potentials.

    Akio Ikeda;Shogo Yazawa;Takeharu Kunieda;Shinji Ohara

  • Allodynia in patients with post-stroke central pain (CPSP) studied by statistical quantitative sensory testing within individuals.

    J.D Greenspan;S Ohara;E Sarlani;F.A Lenz

  • Increased synchronization of cortical oscillatory activities between human supplementary motor and primary sensorimotor areas during voluntary movements.

    Shinji Ohara;Tatsuya Mima;Koichi Baba;Akio Ikeda

  • Focal ictal direct current shifts in human epilepsy as studied by subdural and scalp recording

    Akio Ikeda;Waro Taki;Takeharu Kunieda;Kiyohito Terada

  • Low-frequency electric cortical stimulation has an inhibitory effect on epileptic focus in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

    Junichi Yamamoto;Akio Ikeda;Takeshi Satow;Kazuhide Takeshita

  • Amplitudes of laser evoked potential recorded from primary somatosensory, parasylvian and medial frontal cortex are graded with stimulus intensity

    S Ohara;N.E Crone;N Weiss;R.-D Treede

  • Attention to a painful cutaneous laser stimulus modulates electrocorticographic event-related desynchronization in humans.

    S Ohara;N.E Crone;N Weiss;F.A Lenz

  • Human presupplementary motor area is active before voluntary movement: subdural recording of Bereitschaftspotential from medial frontal cortex

    Shogo Yazawa;Akio Ikeda;Takeharu Kunieda;Shinji Ohara

  • Anti-neuronal autoantibody in Hashimoto's encephalopathy: neuropathological, immunohistochemical, and biochemical analysis of two patients.

    Takashi Oide;Takahiko Tokuda;Masahide Yazaki;Megumi Watarai

  • Cutaneous Painful Laser Stimuli Evoke Responses Recorded Directly From Primary Somatosensory Cortex in Awake Humans

    S. Ohara;N. E. Crone;N. Weiss;R.-D. Treede

  • Lesions Limited to the Human Thalamic Principal Somatosensory Nucleus (Ventral Caudal) Are Associated with Loss of Cold Sensations and Central Pain

    Jong H. Kim;Joel D. Greenspan;Robert C. Coghill;Shinji Ohara

  • Hemiballism with hyperglycemia and striatal T1‐MRI hyperintensity: An autopsy report

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  • Analysis of synchrony demonstrates ‘pain networks’ defined by rapidly switching, task-specific, functional connectivity between pain-related cortical structures

    S. Ohara;N. E. Crone;N. Weiss;F. A. Lenz

  • Intraoperative microelectrode and semi-microelectrode recording during the physiological localization of the thalamic nucleus ventral intermediate.

    Ira M. Garonzik;Sherwin E. Hua;Shinji Ohara;Frederick A. Lenz

  • Role of primary sensorimotor cortices in generating inhibitory motor response in humans.

    Akio Ikeda;Shinji Ohara;Riki Matsumoto;Takeharu Kunieda

  • Medial lateral extent of thermal and pain sensations evoked by microstimulation in somatic sensory nuclei of human thalamus.

    Shinji Ohara;Fred A. Lenz

  • Multisensory convergence at human temporo-parietal junction - epicortical recording of evoked responses.

    Masao Matsuhashi;Akio Ikeda;Shinji Ohara;Riki Matsumoto

  • Electrocorticogram-electromyogram coherence during isometric contraction of hand muscle in human.

    Shinji Ohara;Takashi Nagamine;Akio Ikeda;Takeharu Kunieda

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick Lenz
Frederick Lenz Johns Hopkins University
Akio Ikeda
Akio Ikeda Kyoto University
Hiroshi Shibasaki
Hiroshi Shibasaki Kyoto University
Takeharu Kunieda
Takeharu Kunieda Ehime University
Takashi Nagamine
Takashi Nagamine Sapporo Medical University
Riki Matsumoto
Riki Matsumoto Kobe University
Susumu Miyamoto
Susumu Miyamoto Kyoto University
Nobuhiro Mikuni
Nobuhiro Mikuni Sapporo Medical University
Joel D. Greenspan
Joel D. Greenspan University of Maryland, Baltimore
Nathan E. Crone
Nathan E. Crone Johns Hopkins University

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