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Yasushi Miyashita

Yasushi Miyashita

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Neuroscience

D-Index
83
Citations
26126
World Ranking
1441
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Overview

Yasushi Miyashita is a researcher affiliated with Juntendo University in Japan. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on neuroscience and medicine, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Their interdisciplinary research also includes aspects of cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, electrical and electronic engineering, and epidemiology.

Miyashita's research covers a range of topics within neural science, including neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and functional brain connectivity studies. They also contribute to photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neuroscience and neural engineering, memory and neural mechanisms, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Some of their recent scholarly publications illustrate their research trajectory and subject focus:

  • Operating principles of the cerebral cortex as a six-layered network in primates: beyond the classic canonical circuit model (2022) published in Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
  • Cortical Layer-Dependent Signaling in Cognition: Three Computational Modes of the Canonical Circuit (2024) published in Annual Review of Neuroscience

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Rieko Setsuie
  • Kentaro Miyamoto
  • Atsuhiko Kawabe
  • Yuki Nakatani
  • Shoya Ono

Their work appears in various publication venues, notably:

  • Diabetes
  • Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
  • iScience
  • Cell Reports
  • Annual Review of Neuroscience

Yasushi Miyashita is recognized within the academic community with awards such as the Keio Medical Science Prize from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, awarded in 2003. Their research outputs contribute to the broader understanding of brain function, cortical signaling, and neurobiological mechanisms underpinning cognition and behavior.

Best Publications

  • Dendritic spine geometry is critical for AMPA receptor expression in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons

    Masanori Matsuzaki;Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies;Tomomi Nemoto;Tomomi Nemoto;Yasushi Miyashita

  • Common inhibitory mechanism in human inferior prefrontal cortex revealed by event-related functional MRI

    Seiki Konishi;Kyoichi Nakajima;Idai Uchida;Hideyuki Kikyo

  • Neuronal correlate of pictorial short-term memory in the primate temporal cortex.

    Yasushi Miyashita;Han Soo Chang

  • Neural organization for the long-term memory of paired associates

    Kuniyoshi Sakai;Yasushi Miyashita

  • Neuronal correlate of visual associative long-term memory in the primate temporal cortex.

    Yasushi Miyashita

  • Top-down signal from prefrontal cortex in executive control of memory retrieval

    Hyoe Tomita;Machiko Ohbayashi;Kiyoshi Nakahara;Isao Hasegawa

  • INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX: Where Visual Perception Meets Memory

    Yasushi Miyashita

  • A syntactic specialization for Broca's area

    David Embick;Alec Marantz;Yasushi Miyashita;Wayne O'Neil

  • Transient activation of inferior prefrontal cortex during cognitive set shifting.

    Seiki Konishi;Kyoichi Nakajima;Idai Uchida;Masashi Kameyama

  • No-go dominant brain activity in human inferior prefrontal cortex revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Seiki Konishi;Kyoichi Nakajima;Idai Uchida;Kensuke Sekihara

  • Reconstructing spatio-temporal activities of neural sources using an MEG vector beamformer technique

    K. Sekihara;S.S. Nagarajan;D. Poeppel;A. Marantz

  • Preparation to Inhibit a Response Complements Response Inhibition during Performance of a Stop-Signal Task

    Junichi Chikazoe;Koji Jimura;Satoshi Hirose;Ken Ichiro Yamashita

  • Cognitive Memory: Cellular and Network Machineries and Their Top-Down Control

    Yasushi Miyashita

  • Subcellular distribution of Ca2+ release channels underlying Ca2+ waves and oscillations in exocrine pancreas

    Haruo Kasai;Yue Xin Li;Yasushi Miyashita

  • Activation of Right Inferior Frontal Gyrus during Response Inhibition across Response Modalities

    Junichi Chikazoe;Seiki Konishi;Tomoki Asari;Koji Jimura

  • Formation of mnemonic neuronal responses to visual paired associates in inferotemporal cortex is impaired by perirhinal and entorhinal lesions

    Sei-Ichi Higuchi;Yasushi Miyashita

  • Functional MRI of macaque monkeys performing a cognitive set-shifting task.

    Kiyoshi Nakahara;Toshihiro Hayashi;Seiki Konishi;Yasushi Miyashita

  • Hippocampal neurons in the monkey with activity related to the place in which a stimulus is shown

    E. T. Rolls;Y. Miyashita;P. M. B. Cahusac;R. P. Kesner

  • Functional Dissociation in Right Inferior Frontal Cortex during Performance of Go/No-Go Task

    Junichi Chikazoe;Koji Jimura;Tomoki Asari;Ken Ichiro Yamashita

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging of macaque monkeys performing visually guided saccade tasks: comparison of cortical eye fields with humans.

    Minoru Koyama;Isao Hasegawa;Takahiro Osada;Yusuke Adachi

Frequent Co-Authors

David Poeppel
David Poeppel New York University
Kuniyoshi L. Sakai
Kuniyoshi L. Sakai University of Tokyo
Masao Ito
Masao Ito RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Srikantan S. Nagarajan
Srikantan S. Nagarajan University of California, San Francisco
Edmund T. Rolls
Edmund T. Rolls University of Warwick
Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies
Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hiroaki Niki
Hiroaki Niki University of Tokyo
Raymond P. Kesner
Raymond P. Kesner University of Utah
Noriaki Yahata
Noriaki Yahata National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Colin Phillips
Colin Phillips University of Maryland, College Park

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