Staff Profile
Yuko Akitsuki
Yuko Akitsuki
Name
Yuko Akitsuki
Affiliation
Assistant Professor, Department of Functional Imaging
Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer (IDAC), Tohoku University
Research Theme
  • fMRI study on higher cognitive brain functions
Career
  • 1989-1995: Tohoku University School of Medicine.
  • Awarded the degree of M.D. in 1995.
  • 2001-2005. Tohoku University Postgraduate School of Medicine
  • Awarded the degree of Ph.D. in 2005.
  • 2006-2008: Research associate at the University of Chicago
  • 1995-1996; 1998-2006; 2008-present: Clinical psychiatrist at Tohoku university hospital and other municipal hospitals
  • 1996-1998: Rotating Junior Resident at Kameda medical center
Research topics
  • Emotion processing and emotion regulation.
  • Social cognition and communication.
  • Psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery.
  • Esthetic evaluation.
  • Psychopathology （schizophrenia, depression）.
  • Language.
  • Transcultural psychiatry.
Selected publications
1. Akitsuki Y, Sugiura M, Watanabe J, Yamashita K, Sassa Y, Awata S, Matsuoka H, Matsue Y, Fukuda H, Kawashima R
"Context-dependent cortical activation in response to financial reward and penalty: An event-related fMRI study,"
Neuroimage, 19: 1674-1685, 2003
2. Miura N, Iwata K, Watanabe J, Sugiura M, Akitsuki Y, Sassa Y, Ikuta N, Okamoto H, Watanabe Y, Riera J, Maeda Y, Matsue Y, Kawashima R,
"Cortical activation during reading aloud of long sentences: An fMRI study,"
Neuroreport, 14: 1563-1566, 2003
3. Yomogida Y, Sugiura M, Watanabe J, Akitsuki Y, Sassa Y, Sato T, Yoshihiko M, Kawashima R,
"Mental visual synthesis is originated in the fronto-temporal network of the left hemisphere,"
Cerebral Cortex, 14: 1376-1383, 2004
4. Ikuta N, Sugiura M, Sassa Y, Watanabe J, Akitsuki Y, Iwata K, Miura N, Okamoto H, Watanabe Y, Sato S, Horie K, Matsue Y, Kawashima R,
"Brain activation during the course of sentence comprehension,"
Brain and Language. 97: 154-161, 2006.
5. Yokoyama S, Miyamoto T, Riera J, Kim J, Akitsuki Y, Iwata K, Yoshimoto K, Horie K, Sato S, Kawashima R,
"Cortical mechanisms involved in the processing of verbs: An fMRI study,"
J Cognitive Neuroscience. 18: 1304-1313, 2006.
6. Sugiura M, Sassa Y, Watanabe J, Akitsuki Y, Maeda Y, Matsue Y, Fukuda H, Kawashima R,
"Cortical mechanisms of person representation: Recognition of famous and personally familiar names,"
Neuroimage. 31: 853-860, 2006.
7. Sugiura M, Sassa Y, Jeong H, Miura N, Akitsuki Y, Horie K, Sato S, Kawashima R,
"Multiple brain networks for visual self-recognition with different sensitivity for motion and body part,"
Neuroimage. 32: 1905-1917, 2006.