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Yasuyuki Taki

Yasuyuki Taki

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Neuroscience

D-Index
63
Citations
15702
World Ranking
3377
National Ranking
93

Overview

Yasuyuki Taki is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan. Their research spans multiple domains primarily within medicine and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and physiology.

The scientist has published extensively in various venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals and proceedings:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Communications Biology
  • Annals of Nuclear Medicine
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association

Their research mainly covers topics such as advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, functional brain connectivity studies, dementia and cognitive impairment research, diet and metabolism studies, health disparities and outcomes, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, as well as traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • Yasuko Tatewaki
  • Ryuta Kawashima
  • Hikaru Takeuchi
  • Rui Nouchi
  • Izumi Yokota Matsudaira

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • "Study Profile of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Community-Based Cohort Study," 2020, Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Study design and baseline characteristics of a population-based prospective cohort study of dementia in Japan: the Japan Prospective Studies Collaboration for Aging and Dementia (JPSC-AD)," 2020, Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
  • "Learning a cortical parcellation of the brain robust to the MRI segmentation with convolutional neural networks," 2020, Medical Image Analysis
  • "Lead exposure is associated with functional and microstructural changes in the healthy human brain," 2021, Communications Biology
  • "Originality of divergent thinking is associated with working memory-related brain activity: Evidence from a large sample study," 2020, NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan

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  • Training of working memory impacts structural connectivity.

    Hikaru Takeuchi;Atsushi Sekiguchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Satoru Yokoyama

  • Relationship between body mass index and gray matter volume in 1,428 healthy individuals.

    Yasuyuki Taki;Shigeo Kinomura;Kazunori Sato;Kentaro Inoue

  • Brain Training Game Improves Executive Functions and Processing Speed in the Elderly: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Rui Nouchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Hikaru Takeuchi;Hiroshi Hashizume

  • The Tohoku Medical Megabank Project: Design and Mission

    Shinichi Kuriyama;Nobuo Yaegashi;Fuji Nagami;Tomohiko Arai

  • Failing to deactivate: the association between brain activity during a working memory task and creativity.

    Hikaru Takeuchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Hiroshi Hashizume;Yuko Sassa

  • Brain training game boosts executive functions, working memory and processing speed in the young adults: a randomized controlled trial

    Rui Nouchi;Rui Nouchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Hikaru Takeuchi;Hiroshi Hashizume

  • Regional gray matter volume of dopaminergic system associate with creativity: evidence from voxel-based morphometry.

    Hikaru Takeuchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Yuko Sassa;Hiroshi Hashizume

  • The Association between Resting Functional Connectivity and Creativity

    Hikaru Takeuchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Hiroshi Hashizume;Yuko Sassa

  • White matter structures associated with creativity: evidence from diffusion tensor imaging.

    Hikaru Takeuchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Yuko Sassa;Hiroshi Hashizume

  • Voxel-based morphometry of human brain with age and cerebrovascular risk factors.

    Yasuyuki Taki;Ryoi Goto;Alan Evans;Alex Zijdenbos

  • Correlations among Brain Gray Matter Volumes, Age, Gender, and Hemisphere in Healthy Individuals

    Yasuyuki Taki;Benjamin Thyreau;Shigeo Kinomura;Kazunori Sato

  • Age-related changes in topological organization of structural brain networks in healthy individuals.

    Kai Wu;Yasuyuki Taki;Kazunori Sato;Shigeo Kinomura

  • Topological organization of functional brain networks in healthy children: differences in relation to age, sex, and intelligence.

    Kai Wu;Kai Wu;Yasuyuki Taki;Kazunori Sato;Hiroshi Hashizume

  • Working memory training using mental calculation impacts regional gray matter of the frontal and parietal regions

    Hikaru Takeuchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Yuko Sassa;Hiroshi Hashizume

  • Effects of working memory training on functional connectivity and cerebral blood flow during rest.

    Hikaru Takeuchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Rui Nouchi;Hiroshi Hashizume

  • Cohort Profile: Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study (TMM BirThree Cohort Study): rationale, progress and perspective.

    Shinichi Kuriyama;Hirohito Metoki;Hirohito Metoki;Masahiro Kikuya;Masahiro Kikuya;Taku Obara

  • Effects of Training of Processing Speed on Neural Systems

    Hikaru Takeuchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Hiroshi Hashizume;Yuko Sassa

  • The Impact of Television Viewing on Brain Structures: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses

    Hikaru Takeuchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Hiroshi Hashizume;Kohei Asano

  • Male elderly subthreshold depression patients have smaller volume of medial part of prefrontal cortex and precentral gyrus compared with age-matched normal subjects: a voxel-based morphometry.

    Yasuyuki Taki;Shigeo Kinomura;Shuichi Awata;Kentaro Inoue

  • Brain structural changes as vulnerability factors and acquired signs of post-earthquake stress.

    A Sekiguchi;M Sugiura;Y Taki;Y Kotozaki

  • Regional gray matter density associated with emotional intelligence: Evidence from voxel‐based morphometry

    Hikaru Takeuchi;Yasuyuki Taki;Yuko Sassa;Hiroshi Hashizume

Frequent Co-Authors

Ryuta Kawashima
Ryuta Kawashima Tohoku University
Hikaru Takeuchi
Hikaru Takeuchi Tohoku University
Yuko Sassa
Yuko Sassa Tohoku University
Rui Nouchi
Rui Nouchi University of Human Environments
Hiroshi Hashizume
Hiroshi Hashizume Tohoku University
Hiroshi Fukuda
Hiroshi Fukuda Tohoku University
Shigeo Kinomura
Shigeo Kinomura Tohoku University
Motoaki Sugiura
Motoaki Sugiura Tohoku University
Yong He
Yong He Beijing Normal University
Shigeo Kure
Shigeo Kure Tohoku University

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