Shoji Tanaka

Summary

Affiliation: Sophia University
Country: Japan

Publications

  1. ncbi Four factors underlying mouse behavior in an open field
    Shoji Tanaka
    Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
    Behav Brain Res 233:55-61. 2012
  2. ncbi Computational approaches to the architecture and operations of the prefrontal cortical circuit for working memory
    S Tanaka
    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sophia University Laboratory of Cortical Circuits and Computation, Sophia High Tech Research Center, Tokyo, Japan
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 25:259-81. 2001
  3. ncbi Dopamine controls fundamental cognitive operations of multi-target spatial working memory
    Shoji Tanaka
    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
    Neural Netw 15:573-82. 2002
  4. ncbi Dopaminergic control of working memory and its relevance to schizophrenia: a circuit dynamics perspective
    S Tanaka
    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sophia University, 7 1 Kioicho, Chiyoda ku, Tokyo 102 8554, Japan
    Neuroscience 139:153-71. 2006
  5. ncbi Dysfunctional GABAergic inhibition in the prefrontal cortex leading to "psychotic" hyperactivation
    Shoji Tanaka
    Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, 7 1 Kioicho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, 102 8554, Japan
    BMC Neurosci 9:41. 2008
  6. ncbi Model-based parametric study of frontostriatal abnormalities in schizophrenia patients
    Shoji Tanaka
    Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo 102 8554, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 10:17. 2010
  7. ncbi Factor analysis of attentional set-shifting performance in young and aged mice
    Shoji Tanaka
    Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
    Behav Brain Funct 7:33. 2011

Detail Information

Publications7

  1. ncbi Four factors underlying mouse behavior in an open field
    Shoji Tanaka
    Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
    Behav Brain Res 233:55-61. 2012
    ..Further studies are currently underway to examine the factor structure of similar multivariate data sets from humans tested in a human BPM...
  2. ncbi Computational approaches to the architecture and operations of the prefrontal cortical circuit for working memory
    S Tanaka
    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sophia University Laboratory of Cortical Circuits and Computation, Sophia High Tech Research Center, Tokyo, Japan
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 25:259-81. 2001
    ..7. Further elucidation of these issues based on more detailed anatomical data of the cortical circuitry would make the architecture and operations of the prefrontal cortical circuit be more clearly described...
  3. ncbi Dopamine controls fundamental cognitive operations of multi-target spatial working memory
    Shoji Tanaka
    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
    Neural Netw 15:573-82. 2002
    ..Fourth, the intracortical inhibition (especially of the cross-directional) plays an important role in regulating the competition between targets...
  4. ncbi Dopaminergic control of working memory and its relevance to schizophrenia: a circuit dynamics perspective
    S Tanaka
    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sophia University, 7 1 Kioicho, Chiyoda ku, Tokyo 102 8554, Japan
    Neuroscience 139:153-71. 2006
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  5. ncbi Dysfunctional GABAergic inhibition in the prefrontal cortex leading to "psychotic" hyperactivation
    Shoji Tanaka
    Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, 7 1 Kioicho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, 102 8554, Japan
    BMC Neurosci 9:41. 2008
    ..Many studies have suggested so far that, in schizophrenia patients, GABAergic inhibition is selectively but consistently reduced in the prefrontal cortex (PFC)...
  6. ncbi Model-based parametric study of frontostriatal abnormalities in schizophrenia patients
    Shoji Tanaka
    Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo 102 8554, Japan
    BMC Psychiatry 10:17. 2010
    ..However, this circuitry has not characterized satisfactorily yet, so that no quantitative analysis has ever been made on the activities of the PFC and the striatum and also the DA release in the striatum...
  7. ncbi Factor analysis of attentional set-shifting performance in young and aged mice
    Shoji Tanaka
    Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
    Behav Brain Funct 7:33. 2011
    ..We hypothesized that the latent structure of cognitive performance would reflect functional localization in the brain and would be altered by aging...