Research keywords (1)：
occupational therapy/ cognitive dysfunctions/ participation/ cognitive aging / leisure activity / driving / health / QOL
Research theme for competitive and other funds (5)：
2017 - 2020 Development of an intervention program for maintaining higher brain functions reflecting individual differences based on long-term longitudinal studies
2016 - 2020 Development of driving assessment for people with cognitive dysfunctions using a driving recorder
2011 - 2016 A longitudinal study on higher brain functions in middle-and aged people
2010 - 2012 Relationship between age-dependent decline in cognitive function and lifestyle-related disease risks in a healthy adult population
2007 - 2010 Neuropsychological study on the relationship between higher brain function and kinetic function in middle and upper middle aged people.
Papers (48)：
Supporting safe resumption of driving on a person with a brain injury using an event data recorder: A case study. Japanese Occupational Therapy Research. 2023. 42. 5. 655-662
Hajime Tanaka, Emi Ito, Ayami Yoshihara. On-road driving behaviour characteristics of patients with brain injury. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation. 2021. 28. 8. 1-9
Kaori Yokoi, Emi Ito. Qualitative study on changes of work and leisure activities after incidence of cancer in community-dwelling clients. 2019. 53. 12. 1279-1286
Contemporary issues of brain, communication and education in psychology: The science of mind The verbal fluency tasks in the Japanese population
Union Press 2008
Supporing safe resumption of driving using an event data recorder
(The 57th Japanese Occupational Therapy Congress & Expo in Okinawa 2023)
Evaluation of on-road driving abilities in patients with neurocognitive dysfunctions using the event data recorder
(23rd World Congress of Social Psychiatry 2019)
characteristics of the hazard incident on the road in patients withcognitive dysfunction
(2018)
2019/05 - 現在 Kansai University of Health Sciences Department of Occupational Therapy professor
2015/04 - 2019/04 Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy Occupational Therapy Associate professor
2012/04/01 - 2015/03/31 Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy Occupational Therapy Lecturer
2007/06/01 - 2012/03/31 Nagoya University School of Health Sciences Department of Occupational Therapy Lecturer
