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Toshiaki Onitsuka

Toshiaki Onitsuka

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Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
6189
World Ranking
7895
National Ranking
267

Overview

Toshiaki Onitsuka is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their work primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, pharmacology, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as clinical psychology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Health Policy Implementation Science

Toshiaki Onitsuka has published numerous papers in several scientific venues, most frequently in:

  • Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Significant recent publications include:

  • Neuronal imbalance of excitation and inhibition in schizophrenia: a scoping review of gamma-band ASSR findings, 2022, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • Toward recovery in schizophrenia: Current concepts, findings, and future research directions, 2022, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • Trends in big data analyses by multicenter collaborative translational research in psychiatry, 2021, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers including:

  • Ryota Hashimoto
  • Junya Matsumoto
  • Kenichiro Miura
  • Naomi Hasegawa
  • Naoki Hashimoto

Best Publications

  • Middle and Inferior Temporal Gyrus Gray Matter Volume Abnormalities in First-Episode Schizophrenia: An MRI Study

    Toshiaki Onitsuka;Martha Elizabeth Shenton;Dean F. Salisbury;Chandlee C. Dickey

  • Progressive decrease of left Heschl gyrus and planum temporale gray matter volume in first-episode schizophrenia: a longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Kiyoto Kasai;Martha Elizabeth Shenton;Dean F. Salisbury;Yoshio Hirayasu

  • Abnormal asymmetries in subcortical brain volume in schizophrenia.

    N Okada;M Fukunaga;F Yamashita;D Koshiyama

  • Middle and inferior temporal gyrus gray matter volume abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia: an MRI study.

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  • White matter microstructural alterations across four major psychiatric disorders: mega-analysis study in 2937 individuals

    Daisuke Koshiyama;Masaki Fukunaga;Naohiro Okada;Kentaro Morita

  • Spontaneous Gamma Activity in Schizophrenia.

    Yoji Hirano;Naoya Oribe;Naoya Oribe;Naoya Oribe;Shigenobu Kanba;Toshiaki Onitsuka

  • Fusiform gyrus volume reduction in first-episode schizophrenia: a magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Chang Uk Lee;Martha E. Shenton;Dean F. Salisbury;Kiyoto Kasai

  • Differences and Similarities in Insular and Temporal Pole MRI Gray Matter Volume Abnormalities in First-Episode Schizophrenia and Affective Psychosis

    Kiyoto Kasai;Martha E. Shenton;Dean F. Salisbury;Toshiaki Onitsuka

  • Fusiform gyrus volume reduction and facial recognition in chronic schizophrenia.

    Toshiaki Onitsuka;Martha E. Shenton;Kiyoto Kasai;Paul G. Nestor

  • Functional and structural deficits in brain regions subserving face perception in schizophrenia.

    Toshiaki Onitsuka;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz;Kevin M. Spencer;Melissa Frumin

  • Gamma band neural synchronization deficits for auditory steady state responses in bipolar disorder patients

    Yuko Oda;Toshiaki Onitsuka;Rikako Tsuchimoto;Shogo Hirano

  • P300 in response to the subject's own face.

    Hideaki Ninomiya;Toshiaki Onitsuka;Chung Ho Chen;Eigo Sato

  • Reduced high and low frequency gamma synchronization in patients with chronic schizophrenia.

    Rikako Tsuchimoto;Shigenobu Kanba;Shogo Hirano;Naoya Oribe

  • Cavum septi pellucidi in first-episode schizophrenia and first-episode affective psychosis: an MRI study

    Kiyoto Kasai;Robert William McCarley;Dean F. Salisbury;Dean F. Salisbury;Toshiaki Onitsuka

  • Differentiation between major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder by auditory steady-state responses.

    Shuichi Isomura;Toshiaki Onitsuka;Rikako Tsuchimoto;Itta Nakamura

  • Review of neurophysiological findings in patients with schizophrenia

    Toshiaki Onitsuka;Naoya Oribe;Itta Nakamura;Shigenobu Kanba

  • Abnormal Neural Oscillatory Activity to Speech Sounds in Schizophrenia : A Magnetoencephalography Study

    Shogo Hirano;Yoji Hirano;Toshihiko Maekawa;Choji Obayashi

  • Occipital lobe gray matter volume in male patients with chronic schizophrenia: A quantitative MRI study.

    Toshiaki Onitsuka;Robert William McCarley;Noriomi Kuroki;Chandlee C. Dickey;Chandlee C. Dickey

  • Neuronal imbalance of excitation and inhibition in schizophrenia: a scoping review of gamma‐band ASSR findings

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  • Dissociable contributions of MRI volume reductions of superior temporal and fusiform gyri to symptoms and neuropsychology in schizophrenia

    Paul Gerard Nestor;Paul Gerard Nestor;Toshiaki Onitsuka;Toshiaki Onitsuka;Ronald Joseph Gurrera;Margaret A. Niznikiewicz

  • Decreased spatial frequency sensitivities for processing faces in male patients with chronic schizophrenia.

    Choji Obayashi;Taisuke Nakashima;Taisuke Nakashima;Toshiaki Onitsuka;Toshihiko Maekawa

  • Fusiform Gyrus Volume Reduction in First-Episode Schizophrenia

    Chang Uk Lee;Martha E. Shenton;Dean F. Salisbury;Kiyoto Kasai

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Ryota Hashimoto
Ryota Hashimoto National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley Harvard Medical School
Kevin M. Spencer
Kevin M. Spencer VA Boston Healthcare System
Margaret A. Niznikiewicz
Margaret A. Niznikiewicz Harvard University
Paul G. Nestor
Paul G. Nestor University of Massachusetts Boston
Shozo Tobimatsu
Shozo Tobimatsu Kyushu University
Dean F. Salisbury
Dean F. Salisbury University of Pittsburgh
Masaki Fukunaga
Masaki Fukunaga National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd
Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd University of Utah

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