Yanagisawa Laboratory

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Profile (Takufumi Yanagisawa)

Staff

BACKGROUND

Takufumi Yanagisawa is a Professor in Institute of Advanced Co-Creation studies and a neurosurgeon (MD-Ph.D) in Department of Neurosurgery at Osaka University. Prior to joining the institute, he was a Lecturer in the Endowed Research Division of Clinical Neuroengineering at Osaka University from 2016-2018. He received a PhD in Neurosurgery from Osaka University in 2009, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Osaka University from 2009–2012. Then, he was an Assistant Professor in Division of Functional Diagnostic Science Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University from 2012-2016. He received a Young Scientists’ Prize from MEXT Japan in 2013. Yanagisawa’s research is on clinical neurophysiology and clinical application of Brain-Machine Interface and neurofeedback, which include the analysis of intracranial signals implanted in human patients. He is particularly interested in decoding and control of cortical information using a big data of brain signals and human behavior.

WORK ADDRESS, PHONE, FAX, E-MAIL

Institute for Co-Creation studies, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

phone: Tel:+81-6-6879-3652, Fax:+81-6-6879-3659

e-mail:

PRINCIPAL FILEDS of INTERESTS

• Brain Machine Interface using ECoG and MEG
• Functional neurosurgery for epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease
• Computational Neuroscience

Personal web pages:

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zb_PzNQAAAAJ&hl=en
• https://researchmap.jp/takufumi/?lang=japanese

SELECTED ARTICLES

1. T. Yanagisawa, R. Fukuma, B. Seymour, K. Hosomi, H. Kishima, T. Shimizu, H. Yokoi, M. Hirata, T. Yoshimine, Y. Kamitani, Y. Saitoh, Induced sensorimotor brain plasticity controls pain in phantom limb patients, Nature Communications, 2016; 7, 13209
2. Yanagisawa T, Yamashita O, Hirata M, Kishima H, Saitoh Y, Goto T, Yoshimine T, Kamitani Y., Regulation of motor representation by phase-amplitude coupling in the sensorimotor cortex., J Neurosci. 2012; 32(44): 15467-75.
3. Yanagisawa T, Hirata M, Saitoh Y, Kishima H, Matsushita K, Goto T, Fukuma R, Yokoi H, Kamitani Y, Yoshimine T, Electrocorticographic control of a prosthetic arm in paralyzed patients, Annals of Neurology, 2012; 71 (3):353-61
4. Yanagisawa T, Hirata M, Saitoh Y, Goto T, Kishima H, Fukuma R, Yokoi H, Kamitani Y, Yoshimine T., Real-time control of a prosthetic hand using human electrocorticography signals., J Neurosurg. 2011, 114(6): 1715-22
5. Yanagisawa T, Hirata M, Saitoh Y, Kato A, Shibuya D, Kamitani Y, Yoshimine T., Neural decoding using gyral and intrasulcal electrocorticograms., Neuroimage., 2009; 45(4):1099-106
6. Yanagisawa T, Tsumoto T, Kimura F., Transiently higher release probability during critical period at thalamocortical synapses in the mouse barrel cortex: relevance to differential short-term plasticity of AMPA and NMDA EPSCs and possible involvement of silent synapses., Eur J Neurosci. , 2004; 20(11): 3006-18.

Award

1. “Inou“vation generation award、Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications、2017/11/22
2. Bioindustry award, Japan Bioindustry association,2017/10/11
3. BCI award, 2017/9/21                                                                                                                   
4. Nakatani Award incentive prize, Nakatani Foundation, 2017/2/24
5. The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, The Young Scientists’ Prize, 2013/4/16
6. Medical Research Encouragement Prize of The Japan Medical Association, 2012/11/1
7. “HISHO” The Top Thirty Young Researchers of Osaka University, 2010/10/6
8. 29th International congress of clinical neurophysiology (ICCN2010) (Kobe), Young investigator award, Title: ‘Real-time and training-free control of a prosthetic arm using human electrocorticograms’, 2010/11/1
9. BIOMAG2008 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD (Sapporo), Title： Functional mapping by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on motor cortex of the patients with deafferentation pain, 2008 /8/29

Peer Review

• Nature Biotechnology, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , Neuroscience, Neuroscience Research, BCI etc