Tohoku university school of medicine

Department of Behavioral Neurology and Congnitive Neuroscience was founded in 1994 as a part of Division of Disability Science, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine. We also have a responsibility for the clinic of the Tohoku University Hospital. Our section have graduate programs for medical students and postgraduate programs for graduate students from various areas including neuroscience, psychology, rehabilitation sciences, and education, and provides unique opportunities to study and research functions of the brain and mind and its relation. The research fields include clinical neuropsychology, neuroimaging studies, research on neurobehavioral aspects of neurological diseases, and neuro-nosometrics and clinical trial for neurological and cognitive disorders. We have achieved many successes in each research field, publishing more than 30 papers in each year. The backgrounds the graduate students are quite multidisciplinary, including medicine, health sciences (PT, OT, ST, nursing, radiographer), biology, psychology, and education. The Tohoku University Neuroscience Global COE program, which our department are affiliated to, provides many research and education resources to the graduate students.

1)Dissociable roles of prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in deception Cerebral Cortex 16:192-199 2006

2)Alteplase at 0.6 mg/kg for acute ischemic stroke within 3 hours of onset: Japan Alteplase Clinical Trial Stroke 37:1810-1815 2006

3)Actions anchored by concepts: defective action comprehension in semantic dementia J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 77:1313-1317 2006

4)Reactivation of medial temporal lobe and occipital lobe during the retrieval of color information: A positron emission tomography study Neuroimage 34:1292-1298 2007

5)Selective impairment in the retrieval of family relationships in person identification: A case study of delusional misidentification. Neuropsychologia 45:2902-2909 2007

Behavioral neurology, Neuropsychology, Cognitive neuroscirnce, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Brain injury, functional MRI, neuroimaging, PET, Stroke