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Yasuhiko Shirota is affiliated with Fukui University of Technology in Japan. The scientist's research spans multiple disciplines within medicine and neuroscience, with a focus on neurology and cognitive neuroscience as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience. Their body of work addresses complex neurological disorders and treatment mechanisms.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Expanded clinical spectrum of oculopharyngodistal myopathy type 1, 2022, Muscle & Nerve
  • Cranial Nerve Involvement and Dysautonomia in Post-COVID-19 Guillain-Barré Syndrome, 2021, Internal Medicine
  • Age-related strengthening of cerebello-cortical motor circuits, 2022, Neurobiology of Aging
  • Effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease: An Observational Study, 2021, Movement Disorders
  • Clinical neurophysiology in the treatment of movement disorders: IFCN handbook chapter, 2024, Clinical Neurophysiology

Frequent co-authors in Shirota's research include Masashi Hamada, Tatsushi Toda, Satoshi Kodama, and Hiroyuki Ishiura. Collaborations have played a significant role in the advancement of their research, particularly in topics related to neurological disorders.

Publications are commonly found in journals such as Clinical Neurophysiology, Internal Medicine, Clinical Neurophysiology Practice, Muscle & Nerve, and Neurobiology of Aging.

The main fields of study for Yasuhiko Shirota are medicine and neuroscience, with a substantial number of publications focused on neurology, cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, and surgery.

The research topics extensively covered include:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders

Overall, Yasuhiko Shirota's work contributes to a deeper understanding of neurological functions and neurodegenerative disease mechanisms, combining clinical and experimental approaches across a range of interconnected subfields.

Best Publications

  • Organic materials for electronic and optoelectronic devices

    Yasuhiko Shirota

  • Thermally stable multilared organic electroluminescent devices using novel starburst molecules, 4,4′,4″‐Tri(N‐carbazolyl)triphenylamine (TCTA) and 4,4′,4″‐Tris(3‐methylphenylphenylamino)triphenylamine (m‐MTDATA), as hole‐transport materials

    Yoshiyuki Kuwabara;Hiromitsu Ogawa;Hiroshi Inada;Naoki Noma

  • Photo- and electroactive amorphous molecular materials—molecular design, syntheses, reactions, properties, and applications

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  • A Novel Class of Emitting Amorphous Molecular Materials as Bipolar Radical Formants: 2-{4-[Bis(4-methylphenyl)amino]phenyl}- 5-(dimesitylboryl)thiophene and 2-{4-[Bis(9,9-dimethylfluorenyl)amino]phenyl}- 5-(dimesitylboryl)thiophene

    Yasuhiko Shirota;Motoi Kinoshita;Tetsuya Noda;and Kenji Okumoto

  • Multilayered organic electroluminescent device using a novel starburst molecule, 4,4’,4‘‐tris(3‐methylphenylphenylamino)triphenylamine, as a hole transport material

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  • A Blue‐Emitting Organic Electroluminescent Device Using a Novel Emitting Amorphous Molecular Material, 5,5'‐Bis(dimesitylboryl)‐2,2'‐bithiophene

    Tetsuya Noda;Hiromitsu Ogawa;Yasuhiko Shirota

  • A Novel Class of Emitting Amorphous Molecular Materials with Bipolar Character for Electroluminescence

    Hidekaru Doi;Motoi Kinoshita;and Kenji Okumoto;Yasuhiko Shirota

  • 5,5‘-Bis(dimesitylboryl)-2,2‘-bithiophene and 5,5‘‘-Bis(dimesitylboryl)-2,2‘:5‘,2‘‘-terthiophene as a Novel Family of Electron-Transporting Amorphous Molecular Materials

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  • 1,3,5-Tris[4-(diphenylamino)phenyl]benzene and its methyl-substituted derivatives as a novel class of amorphous molecular materials

    Hiroshi Inada;Yasuhiko Shirota

  • Formation of a Surface Relief Grating Using a Novel Azobenzene‐Based Photochromic Amorphous Molecular Material

    Hideyuki Nakano;Toru Takahashi;Toshiaki Kadota;Yasuhiko Shirota

  • A Novel Class of π‐Electron Dendrimers for Thermally and Morphologically Stable Amorphous Molecular Materials

    Katsuhiko Katsuma;Yasuhiko Shirota

  • αThiophene octamer as a new class of photo-active material for photoelectrical conversion**

    Naoki Noma;Toshimitsu Tsuzuki;Yasuhiko Shirota

  • INFLUENCE OF THE HOLE TRANSPORT LAYER ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES

    Carsten Giebeler;Homer Antoniadis;Donal D. C. Bradley;Yasuhiko Shirota

  • The effect of fullerene doping on photoelectric conversion using titanyl phthalocyanine and a perylene pigment

    Toshimitsu Tsuzuki;Yasuhiko Shirota;Jörn Rostalski;Dieter Meissner

  • Starburst Molecules for Amorphous Molecular Materials. 4,4′,4″-Tris(N,N-diphenylamino)triphenylamine and 4,4′,4″-Tris[N-(3-methylphenyl)-N-phenylamino]triphenylamine

    Yasuhiko Shirota;Tomokazu Kobata;Naoki Noma

  • Polycationic High-Spin States of One- and Two-Dimensional (Diarylamino)benzenes, Prototypical Model Units for Purely Organic Ferromagnetic Metals As Studied by Pulsed ESR/Electron Spin Transient Nutation Spectroscopy

    Kazunobu Sato;Masafumi Yano;Mutsuo Furuichi;Daisuke Shiomi

  • Novel Low-molecular-weight Organic Gels: N,N′,N″-Tristearyltrimesamide/Organic Solvent System

    Yoshiaki Yasuda;Eiichi Iishi;Hiroshi Inada;Yasuhiko Shirota

  • Organic light-emitting diodes using a novel family of amorphous molecular materials containing an oligothiophene moiety as colour-tunable emitting materials

    Tetsuya Noda;Hiromitsu Ogawa;Naoki Noma;Yasuhiko Shirota

  • Exciplex formation at the organic solid-state interface: Yellow emission in organic light-emitting diodes using green-fluorescent tris(8-quinolinolato)aluminum and hole-transporting molecular materials with low ionization potentials

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  • New Class of Hole-Blocking Amorphous Molecular Materials and Their Application in Blue-Violet-Emitting Fluorescent and Green-Emitting Phosphorescent Organic Electroluminescent Devices

    Kenji Okumoto;Yasuhiko Shirota

  • A Novel Family of Boron‐Containing Hole‐Blocking Amorphous Molecular Materials for Blue‐ and Blue–Violet‐Emitting Organic Electroluminescent Devices

    M. Kinoshita;H. Kita;Y. Shirota

  • Thermally stable organic light-emitting diodes using new families of hole-transporting amorphous molecular materials

    Yasuhiko Shirota;Kenji Okumoto;Hiroshi Inada

  • Novel class of low molecular‐weight organic resists for nanometer lithography

    Motoko Yoshiiwa;Hiroshi Kageyama;Yasuhiko Shirota;Fujio Wakaya

  • Possibilities of organic ferromagnets and ferrimagnets by the use of charge-transfer (CT) complexes with radical substituents. Ab initio MO studies

    Kizashi Yamaguchi;Hideo Namimoto;Takayuki Fueno;Takashi Nogami

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Kageyama
Hiroshi Kageyama Kyoto University
Zakya H. Kafafi
Zakya H. Kafafi Lehigh University
Hiroshi Tsubomura
Hiroshi Tsubomura Osaka University
Hideyuki Murata
Hideyuki Murata Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Tomiki Ikeda
Tomiki Ikeda Chuo University
Akiko Kobayashi
Akiko Kobayashi Nihon University
Hayao Kobayashi
Hayao Kobayashi Nihon University
Takeshi Shiono
Takeshi Shiono Hiroshima University
Hiroshi Masuhara
Hiroshi Masuhara National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Nobuo Ueno
Nobuo Ueno Chiba University

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