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Tomohisa Okada

Tomohisa Okada

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Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
11743
World Ranking
3869
National Ranking
106

Overview

Tomohisa Okada is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan, with a research focus primarily in Medicine. Their work concentrates heavily on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Neurology, with additional studies in Cognitive Neuroscience, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Surgery. The principal themes in their scholarly output include advanced MRI techniques, neuroimaging applications, functional brain connectivity, neurological disorders and treatments, as well as specific investigations into Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments.

Their recent publications reflect a blend of topics in neuroimaging and neurological diseases. Notable papers include:

  • "Phase I/II trial of iPS-cell-derived dopaminergic cells for Parkinson's disease," 2025, Nature
  • "Brain/MINDS beyond human brain MRI project: A protocol for multi-level harmonization across brain disorders throughout the lifespan," 2021, NeuroImage Clinical
  • "Neuroimaging at 7 Tesla: a pictorial narrative review," 2022, Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
  • "Motor Progression and Nigrostriatal Neurodegeneration in Parkinson Disease," 2022, Annals of Neurology
  • "Brain MRI with Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping: Relationship to CT Attenuation Values," 2020, Radiology

Okada has collaborated frequently with other researchers in the field. Key coauthors associated with their work are:

  • Yasutaka Fushimi (22 joint publications)
  • Yuji Nakamoto (18 joint publications)
  • Nobukatsu Sawamoto (15 joint publications)
  • Koji Fujimoto (15 joint publications)
  • Atsushi Shima (13 joint publications)

Their research is published extensively in several venues related to magnetic resonance and neuroimaging. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition (9 publications)
  • Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (7 publications)
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences (4 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)
  • Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery (2 publications)

Okada's scholarly contributions span topics such as advanced MRI techniques and applications, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, functional brain connectivity studies, neurological disorders and treatments, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, MRI in cancer diagnosis, and studies involving lanthanide and transition metal complexes.

Best Publications

  • Expectation of pain enhances responses to nonpainful somatosensory stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex and parietal operculum/posterior insula: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Nobukatsu Sawamoto;Manabu Honda;Tomohisa Okada;Takashi Hanakawa

  • Attention to emotion modulates fMRI activity in human right superior temporal sulcus.

    Jin Narumoto;Tomohisa Okada;Norihiro Sadato;Kenji Fukui

  • Critical period for cross-modal plasticity in blind humans: a functional MRI study.

    Norihiro Sadato;Tomohisa Okada;Manabu Honda;Yoshiharu Yonekura

  • The Role of Rostral Brodmann Area 6 in Mental-operation Tasks: an Integrative Neuroimaging Approach

    Takashi Hanakawa;Manabu Honda;Nobukatsu Sawamoto;Tomohisa Okada

  • Mechanisms underlying fatigue: a voxel-based morphometric study of chronic fatigue syndrome

    Tomohisa Okada;Masaaki Tanaka;Hirohiko Kuratsune;Yasuyoshi Watanabe

  • Functional association of the amygdala and ventral prefrontal cortex during cognitive evaluation of facial expressions primed by masked angry faces: an event-related fMRI study.

    Michio Nomura;Hideki Ohira;Kaoruko Haneda;Tetsuya Iidaka

  • Neural Interaction of the Amygdala with the Prefrontal and Temporal Cortices in the Processing of Facial Expressions as Revealed by fMRI

    Tetsuya Iidaka;Masao Omori;Tetsuhito Murata;Hirotaka Kosaka

  • Dissociable Mechanisms of Attentional Control within the Human Prefrontal Cortex

    Yasuhiro Nagahama;Tomohisa Okada;Yukinori Katsumi;Takuya Hayashi

  • Age-related differences in the medial temporal lobe responses to emotional faces as revealed by fMRI.

    Tetsuya Iidaka;Tomohisa Okada;Tetsuhito Murata;Masao Omori

  • Differential amygdala response during facial recognition in patients with schizophrenia: an fMRI study

    H Kosaka;M Omori;T Murata;T Iidaka

  • Transient Neural Activity in the Medial Superior Frontal Gyrus and Precuneus Time Locked with Attention Shift between Object Features

    Yasuhiro Nagahama;Tomohisa Okada;Yukinori Katsumi;Takuya Hayashi

  • Neurite imaging reveals microstructural variations in human cerebral cortical gray matter.

    Hikaru Fukutomi;Matthew F. Glasser;Hui Zhang;Joonas A. A. Autio

  • Neural correlates underlying mental calculation in abacus experts: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Takashi Hanakawa;Manabu Honda;Manabu Honda;Manabu Honda;Tomohisa Okada;Tomohisa Okada;Hidenao Fukuyama

  • Human limb-specific and non-limb-specific brain representations during kinesthetic illusory movements of the upper and lower extremities.

    Eiichi Naito;Tokuro Nakashima;Tomonori Kito;Yu Aramaki

  • Activities of the Primary and Supplementary Motor Areas Increase in Preparation and Execution of Voluntary Muscle Relaxation: An Event-Related fMRI Study

    Keiichiro Toma;Manabu Honda;Takashi Hanakawa;Tomohisa Okada

  • Assessment of regional and global left ventricular function by reinjection Tl-201 and rest Tc-99m sestamibi ECG-gated SPECT: Comparison with three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging

    Eiji Tadamura;Takashi Kudoh;Makoto Motooka;Masayuki Inubushi

  • Participation of the left posterior inferior temporal cortex in writing and mental recall of kanji orthography: A functional MRI study.

    Kimihiro Nakamura;Manabu Honda;Tomohisa Okada;Takashi Hanakawa

  • Linking semantic priming effect in functional MRI and event-related potentials.

    Atsushi Matsumoto;Tetsuya Iidaka;Kaoruko Haneda;Tomohisa Okada

  • Abnormal cortical mechanisms of voluntary muscle relaxation in patients with writer's cramp: an fMRI study.

    T. Oga;M. Honda;K. Toma;N. Murase

  • Tactile-visual cross-modal shape matching: a functional MRI study.

    Daisuke N. Saito;Tomohisa Okada;Yusuke Morita;Yoshiharu Yonekura

Frequent Co-Authors

Norihiro Sadato
Norihiro Sadato National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Susumu Miyamoto
Susumu Miyamoto Kyoto University
Hidenao Fukuyama
Hidenao Fukuyama Kyoto University
Manabu Honda
Manabu Honda National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Hiroshi Shibasaki
Hiroshi Shibasaki Kyoto University
Takashi Hanakawa
Takashi Hanakawa Kyoto University
Tetsuya Iidaka
Tetsuya Iidaka Nagoya University
Takeharu Kunieda
Takeharu Kunieda Ehime University
David C. Van Essen
David C. Van Essen Washington University in St. Louis
Takanori Kochiyama
Takanori Kochiyama Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

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