2018 - 2021 Development of discrimination between mono-polar and bipolar depression by utilizing positron emission tomography with serotonergic triple tracers
2015 - 2019 Expansion of the study of Oxytocin Receptor, which has diverse physiological functions, and establishment of a new agonist analysing system.
2014 - 2017 An establishment of mouse phenotyping system for verification of the neurobiological infrastructure on the psychiatric disorders
2014 - 2015 Objective quantification of deficits in social behavior
2010 - 2014 Identifying genetic factors for deficits in interpersonal behaviors by utilizing multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2011 - 2012 Developing psychological tests battery to objectively assess human social intelligence
2008 - 2010 Exploring neural correlates of improvement of disrupted social behavior induced by oxytocin administration and its application to predict clinical outcome
Daisuke Koshiyama, Ryoichi Nishimura, Kaori Usui, Mao Fujioka, Mariko Tada, Kenji Kirihara, Tsuyoshi Araki, Shintaro Kawakami, Naohiro Okada, Shinsuke Koike, et al. Cortical white matter microstructural alterations underlying the impaired gamma-band auditory steady-state response in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany). 2024. 10. 1. 32-32
Tomoyasu Wakuda, Seico Benner, Yukari Uemura, Tomoko Nishimura, Masaki Kojima, Miho Kuroda, Kaori Matsumoto, Chieko Kanai, Naoko Inada, Taeko Harada, et al. Oxytocin-induced increases in cytokines and clinical effect on the core social features of autism: Analyses of RCT datasets. Brain, behavior, and immunity. 2024
Keiko Ochi, Masaki Kojima, Nobutaka Ono, Miho Kuroda, Keiho Owada, Shigeki Sagayama, Hidenori Yamasue. Objective assessment of autism spectrum disorder based on performance in structured interpersonal acting-out tasks with prosodic stability and variability. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research. 2023
Masahiro Matsunaga, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Takahiko Masuda, Yasuki Noguchi, Hidenori Yamasue, Keiko Ishii. Exploratory research on genetic polymorphisms associated with positive empathy and trait forgivingness among the Japanese. Neuro endocrinology letters. 2023. 44. 8. 506-516