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Overview

Yoshikazu Ugawa is affiliated with Fukushima Medical University in Japan and has a significant body of work concentrated in the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research predominantly interfaces with neurology, cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's publication record includes numerous studies on transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), neurological disorders and treatments, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, vestibular and auditory disorders, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, as well as muscle activation and electromyography studies.

Frequent collaborators in Ugawa's research include Yasuo Terao, Takenobu Murakami, Ritsuko Hanajima, Shin-ichi Tokushige, and Shuichi Matsuda.

The venues where Ugawa has published extensively include Clinical Neurophysiology, Brain Stimulation, Rinsho Shinkeigaku, Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, and Clinical Neurophysiology Practice.

Notable recent papers are:

  • A proposal for new diagnostic criteria for ALS, 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain: What is stimulated? - A consensus and critical position paper, 2022, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroenhancement, 2022, Clinical Neurophysiology Practice
  • Clinical diagnostic utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation in neurological disorders. Updated report of an IFCN committee, 2023, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Diagnostic contribution and therapeutic perspectives of transcranial magnetic stimulation in dementia, 2021, Clinical Neurophysiology

Best Publications

  • Non-invasive electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain, spinal cord, roots and peripheral nerves: Basic principles and procedures for routine clinical and research application: An updated report from an I.F.C.N. Committee

    P.M. Rossini;D. Burke;R. Chen;L.G. Cohen

  • Low intensity transcranial electric stimulation: Safety, ethical, legal regulatory and application guidelines

    A. Antal;Ivan Alekseichuk;M. Bikson;J. Brockmöller

  • The clinical diagnostic utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation: report of an IFCN committee.

    Robert Chen;Didier Cros;Antonio Curra;Vincenzo Di Lazzaro

  • Magnetic stimulation over the cerebellum in humans

    Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yoshikazu Uesaka;Yasuo Terao;Ritsuko Hanajima

  • Preferential activation of different I waves by transcranial magnetic stimulation with a figure-of-eight-shaped coil.

    K Sakai;Y Ugawa;Y Terao;R Hanajima

  • Paired-pulse magnetic stimulation of the human motor cortex: differences among I waves

    Ritsuko Hanajima;Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yasuo Terao;Katsuyuki Sakai

  • A proposal for new diagnostic criteria for ALS

    Jeremy M. Shefner;Ammar Al-Chalabi;Mark R. Baker;Li-Ying Cui

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain: What is stimulated? – A consensus and critical position paper

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  • Endoscopic management of carpal tunnel syndrome

    Ichiro Okutsu;Setsuo Ninomiya;Yoshio Takatori;Yoshikazu Ugawa

  • Basic mechanisms of TMS

    Yasuo Terao;Yoshikazu Ugawa

  • Interhemispheric facilitation of the hand motor area in humans.

    Ritsuko Hanajima;Yoshikazu Ugawa;Katsuyuki Machii;Hitoshi Mochizuki

  • Consensus paper: Combining transcranial stimulation with neuroimaging

    Hartwig R. Siebner;Hartwig R. Siebner;Til O. Bergmann;Sven Bestmann;Sven Bestmann;Marcello Massimini

  • Plasticity induced by non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation: A position paper.

    Ying Zu Huang;Ying Zu Huang;Ying Zu Huang;Ming Kue Lu;Andrea Antal;Joseph Classen

  • Adverse events of tDCS and tACS: A review

    Hideyuki Matsumoto;Yoshikazu Ugawa

  • Expansions of intronic TTTCA and TTTTA repeats in benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy.

    Hiroyuki Ishiura;Koichiro Doi;Jun Mitsui;Jun Yoshimura

  • Bidirectional long-term motor cortical plasticity and metaplasticity induced by quadripulse transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Masashi Hamada;Yasuo Terao;Ritsuko Hanajima;Yuichiro Shirota

  • Non-invasive Cerebellar Stimulation—a Consensus Paper

    G Grimaldi;GP Argyropoulos;A Boehringer;Pablo Celnik

  • Modulation of motor cortical excitability by electrical stimulation over the cerebellum in man.

    Y Ugawa;B L Day;J C Rothwell;P D Thompson

  • Mechanisms of intracortical I-wave facilitation elicited with paired-pulse magnetic stimulation in humans.

    Ritsuko Hanajima;Yoshikazu Ugawa;Yasuo Terao;Hiroyuki Enomoto

  • Non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroenhancement

    Unknown

  • Magnetic stimulation over the spinal enlargements.

    Y Ugawa;J C Rothwell;B L Day;P D Thompson

  • Experimental sensory neuropathy induced by sensitization with ganglioside GD1b.

    Susumu Kusunoki;Jun Shimizu;Atsuro Chiba;Yoshikazu Ugawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasuo Terao
Yasuo Terao Kyorin University
Ritsuko Hanajima
Ritsuko Hanajima Tottori University
Toshiaki Furubayashi
Toshiaki Furubayashi Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University
Shoji Tsuji
Shoji Tsuji University of Tokyo
Ulf Ziemann
Ulf Ziemann University of Tübingen
Katsuyuki Sakai
Katsuyuki Sakai University of Tokyo
Sadatoshi Tsuji
Sadatoshi Tsuji International University of Health and Welfare
Akiyoshi Kakita
Akiyoshi Kakita Niigata University
Walter Paulus
Walter Paulus University of Göttingen
John C. Rothwell
John C. Rothwell University College London

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