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Yasuhiro Nagahama is affiliated with Memorial Hospital of South Bend in the United States. Their research work largely focuses on medicine and neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and cognitive neuroscience. The subfields of their studies extend to physiology and molecular biology.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction

Their notable publications reflect these themes. Key papers authored or co-authored by Nagahama include:

  • "Prevalence and Clinical Implications of the Mirror and TV Signs in Advanced Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies" (2020) published in Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra
  • "Early diagnosis of prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies using clinical history of probable REM sleep behaviour disorder and cardiac 123I-MIBG scintigraphy in memory clinics" (2021) in Psychogeriatrics
  • "Neuropsychological basis of impaired gesture imitations in patients with Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies" (2021) in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • "Efficacy and safety of donepezil in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies: results from a 12-week multicentre, randomised, double-blind, and placebo-controlled phase IV study" (2024) in Psychogeriatrics
  • "Outcome of therapeutic interventions against food refusal in patients with dementia" (2021) in Psychogeriatrics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nagahama include:

  • Hiroshige Fujishiro
  • Tomoko Okina
  • Norio Suzuki
  • Toshiya Fukui
  • Tatsuya Ito

The primary venues where Nagahama's work has been published are:

  • Psychogeriatrics (5 publications)
  • Higher Brain Function Research (2 publications)
  • Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra (1 publication)
  • International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (1 publication)
  • Research Square (Research Square) (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Brain functional activity during gait in normal subjects: a SPECT study.

    Hidenao Fukuyama;Yasuomi Ouchi;Shigeru Matsuzaki;Yasuhiro Nagahama

  • Significance of increased oxygen extraction fraction in five-year prognosis of major cerebral arterial occlusive diseases.

    Hiroshi Yamauchi;Hidenao Fukuyama;Yasuhiro Nagahama;Hidehiko Nabatame

  • Cerebral activation during performance of a card sorting test

    Yasuhiro Nagahama;Hidenao Fukuyama;Hiroshi Yamauchi;Shigeru Matsuzaki

  • Evidence of misery perfusion and risk for recurrent stroke in major cerebral arterial occlusive diseases from PET.

    H Yamauchi;H Fukuyama;Y Nagahama;H Nabatame

  • Dissociable Mechanisms of Attentional Control within the Human Prefrontal Cortex

    Yasuhiro Nagahama;Tomohisa Okada;Yukinori Katsumi;Takuya Hayashi

  • 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

  • Neural correlates of psychotic symptoms in dementia with Lewy bodies

    Yasuhiro Nagahama;Tomoko Okina;Norio Suzuki;Minoru Matsuda

  • Cortical processing mechanism for vocalization with auditory verbal feedback

    Shigeru Hirano;Hisayoshi Kojima;Yasushi Naito;Iwao Honjo

  • A Novel Point Mutation in the Mitochondrial tRNASer(UCN) Gene Detected in a Family with MERRF/MELAS Overlap Syndrome

    M. Nakamura;S. Nakano;Y.-I. Goto;M. Ozawa

  • Cortical correlates of vestibulo‐ocular reflex modulation: a PET study

    Yasushi Naito;Ichiro Tateya;Shigeru Hirano;Masato Inoue

  • The cerebral correlates of different types of perseveration in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

    Y Nagahama;T Okina;N Suzuki;H Nabatame

  • Classification of Psychotic Symptoms in Dementia With Lewy Bodies

    Yasuhiro Nagahama;Tomoko Okina;Norio Suzuki;Minoru Matsuda

  • Age-related changes in cerebral blood flow activation during a Card Sorting Test.

    Yasuhiro Nagahama;H. Fukuyama;Hiroshi Yamauchi;Yukinori Katsumi

  • Comparison of the pattern of atrophy of the corpus callosum in frontotemporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy, and Alzheimer's disease

    Hiroshi Yamauchi;Hidenao Fukuyama;Yasuhiro Nagahama;Yukinori Katsumi

  • Neural control of micturition in man examined with single photon emission computed tomography using 99mtc-hmpao

    Hidenao Fukuyama;Shigeru Matsuzaki;Yasuomi Ouchi;Hiroshi Yamauchi

  • Cerebral correlates of the progression rate of the cognitive decline in probable Alzheimer's disease.

    Yasuhiro Nagahama;Hidehiko Nabatame;Tomoko Okina;Hiroshi Yamauchi

  • Essential role of the right superior parietal cortex in Japanese kana mirror reading: An fMRI study

    Yun Dong;Hidenao Fukuyama;Manabu Honda;Tomohisa Okada

  • Increased cortical activation during hearing of speech in cochlear implant users

    Yasushi Naito;Ichiro Tateya;Nobuya Fujiki;Shigeru Hirano

  • Factor structure of a modified version of the wisconsin card sorting test: an analysis of executive deficit in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment.

    Yasuhiro Nagahama;Tomoko Okina;Norio Suzuki;Shigeru Matsuzaki

  • Familial cortical myoclonic tremor as a unique form of cortical reflex myoclonus

    Kiyohito Terada;Akio Ikeda;Tatsuya Mima;Kaku Kimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Hidenao Fukuyama
Hidenao Fukuyama Kyoto University
Hiroshi Shibasaki
Hiroshi Shibasaki Kyoto University
Takashi Hanakawa
Takashi Hanakawa Kyoto University
Tomohisa Okada
Tomohisa Okada Kyoto University
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg
Hideo Tsukada
Hideo Tsukada Hamamatsu Photonics (Japan)
Hannie C. Comijs
Hannie C. Comijs VU University Medical Center
Eli Vakil
Eli Vakil Bar-Ilan University
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Dorly J. H. Deeg University of Amsterdam
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black University of Toronto

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