{"id":799,"date":"2020-03-30T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/dokkyo-physiol2\/?page_id=799"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:52:16","slug":"%e7%8d%a8%e5%8d%94%e5%8c%bb%e7%a7%91%e5%a4%a7%e5%ad%a6%e7%94%9f%e7%90%86%e5%ad%a6%e8%ac%9b%e5%ba%a72020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/dokkyo-physiol2\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"\u7368\u5354\u533b\u79d1\u5927\u5b66\u751f\u7406\u5b66\u8b1b\u5ea7"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Department of Physiology is part of the School of Medicine at Dokkyo Medical University (DMU). The department started as Physiology (II) in 1973, and it has overseen education and research in the field of neurophysiology. The department has been led by Dr. Kenji Kansaku since 2018. The department started to oversee education in all field of medical physiology since 2020.
          Dr. Kansaku started his career as a neurosurgeon, and throughout his neurosurgical residency, he observed that impaired brain function caused critical problems. Therefore, he decided that physicians should understand human brain function scientifically to overcome these problems. Since 1997, he has conducted neurophysiology\/systems neuroscience research at four government institutes: three in Japan (AIST, NIPS\/NINS, NRCD) and one in the US (NINDS\/NIH). This research has involved close collaborations between neurophysiologists\/systems neuroscientists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychologists, information scientists, and engineers. In 2018, he joined DMU as a professor and became chair of the department.
          The main goal of the Department of Physiology is to overcome problems caused by impaired brain function. To this end, our department pursues neurophysiology\/systems neuroscience research to understand brain function and also to apply scientific knowledge to medical practice. We focus on the representation of abstract concepts such as \u201ctime, space, and number\u201d or \u201cbody image and sense of self\u201d, as well as practical neuroprosthetics. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are taken in the department.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div>

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People<\/h2>

Members<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/div>

Kenji Kansaku,<\/a>
\nMD, PhD<\/a><\/h4>

Professor and Chair<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Masao Kakoki,<\/a>
\nMD, PhD<\/a><\/h4>

Associate Professor<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Soichiro Fujiki,<\/a>
\nPhD<\/a><\/h4>

Lecturer<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Narumi Katsuyama,\n<\/a>
PhD<\/a><\/a>\ufeff<\/a><\/span><\/h4>

Lecturer<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Toshimitsu Takahashi,<\/a>
\nDr Eng<\/a><\/h4>

Assistant Professor<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Teruyuki Fukushima,<\/a>
\nPhD<\/a><\/h4>

Assistant Professor<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Shiho Tanaka<\/h4>

Technical Assistant<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Mizuki Tomii<\/h4>

Technical Assistant<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Mutsuko Kimura<\/h4>

Technical Assistant<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Norihisa Ishikawa<\/h4>

Research Assistant<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Yukiko Ishikawa<\/h4>

Research Assistant<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Yasuko Mamada<\/h4>

Research Assistant<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Yusuke Uchiyama,<\/a>
\nDr Eng<\/a><\/h4>

Dokkyo PhD course<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Yuki Muto,\n
MD<\/h4>

Dokkyo PhD course<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Visiting Members<\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/div>

Kenji Kawano,<\/a>
\nMD, PhD<\/a><\/h4>

Visiting Professor, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto Univ<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Takanori Uka,<\/a>
\nMD, PhD<\/a><\/h4>

Visiting Lecturer, Professor at Yamanashi Univ<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Koichi Nakajyo,<\/a>
\nPhD<\/a><\/h4>

Visiting Lecturer, Professor at Jichi Medical Univ<\/span> <\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Satoko Koganemaru,<\/a>
\nMD, PhD<\/a><\/h4>

Visiting Lecturer, Associate Professor at Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical Univ<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Kensaku Nomoto,\n<\/a>
MD, PhD<\/a><\/h4>

Visiting Lecturer, Associate Professor at International Univ of Health and Welfare<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Toshihiro Kawase,<\/a>
\nPhD<\/a><\/h4>

Visiting Researcher, Associate Professor at Tokyo Denki Univ<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Jun Nakano,
\n PhD<\/h4>

Co-researcher, Visiting Professor at Kanazawa Institute of Technology<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Yoshinori Higuchi,
\nMD, PhD<\/h4>

Co-researcher, Professor at Chiba University<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Kyoko Aoyagi,
\nMD, PhD<\/h4>

Co-researcher, Department Director at Chiba Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Kouji Takano,<\/a>
\n PhD<\/a><\/h4>

Co-researcher, Research Fellow at National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Research Institute<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div>

Tasuku Kitajima,
\nMD, PhD<\/h4>

Co-researcher, Medical Doctor at Nagasaki Prefectural Center of Medicine and Welfare for Children<\/span><\/p> <\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Former Members<\/a><\/div>
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Selected Publications<\/h2> <\/div><\/div>
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Research and Review Articles (selected)\n<\/span>
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\u30fbKakoki, M., Hagaman, J.R., Terajima, M., Nagasawa, M., Uoshima, K., Yamauchi, M., Smithies, O., Kansaku, K. Proximal aortic aneurysms in mice underexpressing transforming growth factor-\u03b21. The Journal of Physiological Sciences<\/span>, 75:100027, 2025.\n
\u30fbFujiki, S., Kansaku, K. Learning performance of cerebellar circuit depends on diversity and chaoticity of spiking patterns in granule cells: A simulation study. Neural Networks<\/span>, 189:107585, 2025.
\u30fbOkahara, Y., Takano, K., Odaka, K, Uchino, Y,, Kansaku, K. Detecting passive and active neural response in patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome. Neuroscience Research<\/span>, 196:23\u201331, 2023. \n\n\n\n
\u30fbNomoto K, Kansaku K. Chronic corticosterone deteriorates latrine and nesting behaviours in mice. Royal Society Open Science<\/span>, 10(2): 220718, 2023. \n
\u30fbWada, M., Takano, K., Ide, M., Sano, Y., Shinoda, Y., Furuichi, T., Kansaku, K. Task-related c-Fos expression in the posterior parietal cortex during the \u201crubber tail task\u201d is diminished in Ca2+<\/sup>-dependent activator protein for secretion 2 (Caps2)-knockout mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience<\/span>, 15:680206, 2021. \n
\u30fbKansaku, K. Neuroprosthetics in systems neuroscience and medicine. Scientific Reports<\/span>, 11:5404, 2021. (editorial)\n
\u30fbIto, H., Fujiki, S., Mori, Y., Kansaku, K. Self-reorganization of neuronal activation patterns in the cortex under brain-machine interface and neural operant conditioning. Neuroscience Research<\/span>, 156: 279-292, 2020.  (review)
\n\u30fbKoganemaru, S., Kitatani, R., Fukushima-Maeda, A., Mikami, Y., Okita, Y., Matsuhashi, M., Ohata, K., Kansaku, K., Mima, T. Gait-synchronized rhythmic brain stimulation improves post-stroke gait disturbance: a pilot study. Stroke<\/span>, 50(11):3205-3212, 2019.
\n\u30fbOkahara Y, Takano K, Nagao M, Kondo K, Iwadate Y, Birbaumer N, Kansaku K. Long-term use of a neural prosthesis in progressive paralysis. Scientific Reports<\/span>, 8:16787, 2018.
\n\u30fbSato Y, Kawase T, Takano K, Spence C, Kansaku K. Body ownership and agency altered by an electromyographically-controlled robotic arm. Royal Society Open Science<\/span>, 2018 5(5): 172170.
\n\u30fbKawase T, Sakurada T, Koike Y, Kansaku K. A hybrid BMI-based exoskeleton for paresis: EMG control for assisting arm movements. Journal of Neural Engineering<\/span>, 14(1):016015, 2017.
\n\u30fbWada M, Takano K, Ora H, Ide M, Kansaku K. The rubber tail illusion as evidence of body ownership in mice. The Journal of Neuroscience<\/span>, 36(43):11133-11137, 2016.
\n\u30fbSakurada T, Kawase T, Komatsu T, Kansaku K. Use of high-frequency visual stimuli above the critical flicker frequency in a SSVEP-based BMI. Clinical Neurophysiology<\/span>, 126: 1972-1978, 2015. \n
\u30fbBushara K.O., Hanakawa, T., Immisch I., Toma, K., Kansaku, K., Hallett M. Neural correlates of cross-modal binding. Nature Neuroscience<\/span>, 6(2): 190-195, 2003. \n
\u30fbKansaku, K., Yamaura, A., Kitazawa, S. Sex-differences in lateralization revealed in the posterior language areas. Cerebral Cortex<\/span>, 10(9): 866-872, 2000.

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\n\n<\/span>\u30fbKansaku, K. (Ed) Neuroprosthetics in systems neuroscience and medicine; Guest Edited Collections of Scientific Reports<\/span>, Springer Nature, 2021. (https:\/\/www.nature.com\/collections\/hjcgcjcach)
\n\u30fbKansaku, K., Cohen L.G., Birbaumer, N. (Eds) Clinical Systems Neuroscience<\/span>, Springer, 2015. (ISBN: 978-4431550365)
\n\u30fbKansaku, K., Cohen L.G. (Eds) Systems Neuroscience and Rehabilitation<\/span>, Springer, 2011. (ISBN: 978-4431539988)<\/p> <\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div>

Event Information<\/h2> <\/div><\/div>
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7th Dokkyo \n
Neurophysiology Seminar<\/h4>

FThursday, January 22, 2026\n

\u201cBehavioral and Neural Correlates of Post-Decision Confidence\u201d
\nYasuhiro Tanaka, MD, Ph.D.
\nProfessor, Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University<\/p><\/div>

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6th Dokkyo \n
Neurophysiology Seminar<\/h4>

Friday, December 20, 2024

\n\u201cBayesian Inference, Reinforcement Learning, and the Cortico-Basal Ganglia Circuit\u201d
Kenji Doya, Ph.D.\n
Professor, Neural Computation Unit,
\nOkinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University<\/p><\/div>

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5th Dokkyo \n
Neurophysiology Seminar<\/h4>

Thursday, January 11, 2024

\n\u201cA new look at the brain: Free energy principle\u201d
Toshio Inui, Ph.D., M.Eng.\n
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University<\/p><\/div>

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4th Dokkyo \n
Neurophysiology Seminar<\/h4>

Wednesday, April 13, 2022\n

\n\u201cSapient Paradox: Neurobiological bases of the Great Journey and the Cognitive Revolution\u201d
\nAtsushi Iriki, D.D.S., Ph.D., D.M.Sc.
\nTeam Leader, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research<\/p><\/div>

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3rd Dokkyo \n
Neurophysiology Seminar<\/h4>

\u201cChange of sensorimotor environment and the patients\u2019 brain\u201d\n

Thursday, December 19, 2019\n

\n\u201cDynamic brain maps in phantom pain and implications for treatment\u201d
\nHerta Flor, PhD
\nProfessor, Department of Cognitive and Clinical\u2026.<\/p><\/div>

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2nd Dokkyo\n
Neurophysiology Seminar<\/h4>

\u201cArtificial intelligence, brain and medicine\u201d\n

\nSaturday, July 6, 2019\n

\n\u201cArtificial Intelligence and Neurophysiology: Modeling visual information processing in brain for Brain-Machine Interface systems\u201d
\nRyusuke Hayashi, PhD
\nSenior Researcher, Human Informatics Research Institute\u2026<\/p><\/div>

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1st Dokkyo \n
Neurophysiology Seminar<\/h4>

Friday, March 22, 2019\n

\n\u201cTime in the brain.\u201d
\nShigeru Kitazawa, MD, PhD
\nProfessor, Dynamic Brain Network Laboratory, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences\/ Department of Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine,
\nOsaka University, Osaka, Japan
\nRm 325\/ Basic Res Bldg, Dokkyo Medical University<\/p><\/div>

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Contact Information<\/h2> <\/div><\/div>
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Department of Physiology,
\nDokkyo Medical University School of Medicine<\/p>

880 Kitakobayashi, Mibu, Shimotsuga,\n

\nTochigi 321-0293, Japan
\nPh: +81-282-86-1111
\nFx: +81-282-86-2011
\ne-mail: dokkyo-physiol2 (at mark) dokkyomed.ac.jp<\/p> Access<\/a><\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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