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Prof. Yoshiaki Kikuchi

Affiliation :
Graduate School of Tokyo Metropolitan University,Japan

Biography :

Yoshiaki Kikuchi, D. Med. Sci. & Ph.D. is professor of Neuroscience at Graduate School of Tokyo Metropolitan University. He is recently interested in the neural basis of love, especiallymothers love (The Functional Neuroanatomy of Maternal Love: Mothers Response to Infant’s Attachment Behaviors. Biological Psychiatry 63; 415-23, 2008; Babys Little Smiles: Building a Relationship with Mon. How Smiles – and Pouts – Are Helping Researchers Probe the Essence of the Complex Mother-Infant Bond. Scientific American Mind Matters Sep 23, 2008), happiness (The Brain Feeling Happiness, Chemistry & Chemical Industry, 664; 135-137, 2011), adaptive memory, self-esteem (Gender Differences of Brain Activity in the Conflicts Based on Implicit Self-esteem. PLoS ONE 7(5): e37901) and humanity (The Neural Basis of Emotion Underlying Human Nature – Its Adaptive Mechanism –, Japanese Journal of Physiological Anthropology 18, No.2, 1-6, 2013; The Female Brain Bearing Life. The Science Council of Japan Forum, 6, 94-99, 2012). In particular, his study on the neural basis of mothers love with Dr. M. Noriuchi has been reported by The New York Times (Maternal Instinct Is Wired into the Brain, March 7, 2008), a special article in a scientific magazine (L’instinct maternal est-il universel? Le Monde de lenfance No.3; 40-44, 2008) and reported by various NetNews.

Research Interest :

Brain, Brain imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), emotion, cognition, motor, sensory, memory, etc.