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| Tetsuya SUHARA, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Director of the department |
| Dr. Suhara received the Ph.D. from Jikei University School of Medicine in 1991 for his study of dopamine receptor binding in vivo. He joined NIRS in 1989. In 1992-1993, he studied in the PET group of Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Hospital, Sweden. He has done research on brain functional imaging for many years. He has served as a visiting professor in the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nippon Medical School since 2004, and in the Graduate school of Medicine, Yokohama City University since 2006. |
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Awards and Honors:
2009 Bälz Prize
2000 Award of Minister of Science and Technology Agency
1998 Award of The Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine
1984 Award of Clinical Medicine (Graduated cum laude, Jikei University School of medicine) |
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| Hiroshi ITO, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Team leader for the clinical neuroimaging |
| Dr. Ito received the Ph.D. from Tohoku University School of Medicine in 1993 for the study of quantification of cerebral blood flow using SPECT. He studied in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden from 1995 to 1997. He worked in Akita Research Institute of Brain and Blood Vessels from 1997 to 2003, and in Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University from 2003 to 2005. He joined NIRS in 2005 and has done research on nuclear neuroimaging in neuropsychiatric diseases and serves a team leader for the clinical neuroimaging. |
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Awards and Honors:
2007 The award of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine
2004 The research award for young investigators of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine
2003 The best thesis of Annals of Nuclear Medicine |
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| Makoto HIGUCHI, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Team leader for the biological neuroimaging |
| Dr. Higuchi received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, where he specialized in nuclear medicine and neuroimaging approaches to dementia. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, studying neuropathology of dementias and transgenic models of neurodegenerative disorders. From 2003, he served as a staff scientist at Laboratory for Proteolytic Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, and was there engaged in biochemical, histochemical and neuroimaging studies on rodent models of Alzheimer's disease. He joined NIRS in 2005 and was then appointed as Team Leader for the Molecular Neurobiology Team. His research currently centers on in-vivo imaging of genetically engineered animals modeling neuropsychiatric conditions toward establishment of diagnostic and therapeutic means for these disorders on the basis of their molecular pathogenesis. |
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| Hidehiko TAKAHASHI, M.D., Ph.D. |
Project leader for the Extramural Research "PRESTO"
Assistant professor of the department of psychiatry, University of Kyoto |
| Dr. Takahashi is a psychiatrist and received the Ph.D. from Tokyo Medical and Dental University in 2005 for the study of emotional dysfunction in schizophrenia using fMRI. He worked in Asai Hospital as a psychiatrist and then joined NIRS in 2005. He visited California Institute of Technology, Division of biology Option of Computation & Neural Systems as a Visiting associate from 2008 to 2009. He became a member of Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency in 2008. He is currently an assistant professor of the department of psychiatry, University of Kyoto. His research interests are neural basis of emotional and cognitive impairments in neuropsychiatric disorders. Combining fMRI and PET, he is also focusing on molecular basis of emotion and decision making.
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Awards and Honors:
2008 Senior Scientist Award of 14th Biennial Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders
2008 Young Investigator Award from Tokyo Medical and Dental University
2006 Young Investigator Award of Japan Foundation for Aging and Health |
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| Takafumi MINAMIMOTO, Ph.D. |
Project leader for the Extramural Research "PRESTO"
Senior researcher for the system neurochemistry |
| Dr. Minamimoto received the Ph.D. from Osaka University in 2002 for the study of neural mechanism of action-selection in the thalamus and the basal ganglia. He worked in Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a post-doc. He joined NIRS in 2008. He is currently a senior researcher for system neurochemistry. He became a member of Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency in 2009. His research interests are the neural mechanism of motivation and its impairment of depression or mood disorders.
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| Makiko YAMADA, Ph.D. |
Project leader for the Extramural Research "PRESTO"
Researcher for the clinical neuroimaging |
| Dr. Yamada received the Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2006 for the study, "the role of the amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex in social cognition: implications for social dysfunction in schizophrenia". She continued her research on the neuropsychological bases of social cognition in schizophrenia at Kyoto University School of Medicine, as a post-doc fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science. She also investigated the neural mechanism of empathy at the University of Chicago, Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. She joined NIRS in 2009. She is currently a researcher for clinical neuroimaging. She became a member of Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency in 2010. Her research interests are the neural bases of delusion and derealization in neuropsychiatric disorders. |
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