Researchers

NAKAJIMA Toshi

NAKAJIMA Toshi
Associate Professor
Faculty Department of Medicine
Researchmap https://researchmap.jp/toxinak

Education and Career

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Apr. 2024 - Today , Kindai University Faculty of Medicine Department of Medicine Associate Professor
  • Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2024 , University of Toyama, Faculty of Medicine Department of Integrative Neuriscience Associate Professor
  • Nov. 2019 - Mar. 2020 , Asahikawa Medical University Dept. Physiol. Lab. for Neuroscience Assistant Professor
  • Nov. 2017 - Oct. 2019 , Asahikwa Medical University The Research Center for Brain Function and Medical Engineering Assistant Professor
  • Oct. 2013 - Sep. 2017 , Dept Neurosci, Faculty Med, Univ Montreal Laboratory of Dr. Trevor Drew Research Assistant
  • Feb. 2008 - Oct. 2013 , Tohoku University School of Medicine Department of Physiology Research Assistant
  • Sep. 2007 - Jan. 2008 , 東北大学大学院医学系研究科 GCOEフェロー
  • Apr. 2007 - Aug. 2007 , 東北大学大学院医学系研究科 研究支援者
  • Apr. 2003 - Mar. 2007 , 東北大学大学院医学系研究科 博士課程
  • Apr. 1995 - Mar. 2001 , 東北大学医学部

Research Activities

Research Interests

Single-Unit Recording, Higher Motor Areas, Voluntary Movement, Locomotion, Cat, Posture, Motor Preparation, hippocampus, Primates, Electrophysiology

Published Papers

  1. Two premotor areas (6a alpha and 6a gamma) involved in motor preparation and execution during visually guided locomotion in the cat
    Nicolas Fortier-Lebel; Toshi Nakajima; Trevor Drew
    Cerebral Cortex  (in press)  Jul. 2025  , Refereed
  2. Early postural adjustments in cats during a reaching task reflect strategies to predict the forthcoming target location
    Toshi Nakajima; Mirai Takahashi; Kaoru Takakusaki
    Neuroscience Research  Mar. 2025  , Refereed
  3. Exploring the Consistent Roles of Motor Areas Across Voluntary Movement and Locomotion.
    Nicolas Fortier-Lebel; Toshi Nakajima
    The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry  , 10738584241263758-10738584241263758, 23, Jul. 2024  , Refereed

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Conference Activities & Talks

  1. [Oral presentation at a Minisymposium] Contribution of cat premotor areas to visually-guided locomotion , Toshi Nakajima; Nicolas Fortier-Lebel; Trevor Drew , Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) , 7, Nov. 2018
  2. The influence of interrupting a memory-guided sequential motor task on prefrontal neuronal activity , Toshi Nakajima; Atsushi Miyazaki; Keisetsu Shima; Jun Tanji; Hajime Mushiake , 第32回日本神経科学大会 , Sep. 2009
  3. The interrupting effect of a visually-guided motor task on retrieval of a memorized motor sequence , Atsushi Miyazaki; Toshi Nakajima; Keisetsu Shima; Hajime Mushiake , 第36回世界生理学会 , Jul. 2009

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MISC

  1. 後頭頂皮質へのムシモール注入がネコ前肢リーチング中の姿勢制御におよぼす影響 , 高橋未来; 中島敏; 福山秀青; 野口智弘; 千葉龍介; 高草木薫 , 日本神経化学会大会抄録集(Web) , 65th , 2022
  2. 筋緊張抑制を誘発する脊髄介在細胞の神経伝達物質プロファイル , 高草木薫; 高橋未来; 中島敏; 千葉龍介; 小原和宏 , 日本大脳基底核研究会 , 34th , 2019
  3. 脚橋被蓋核に作用する睡眠・覚醒関連神経伝達物質の作用 , 高草木薫; 高橋未来; 中島敏; 千葉龍介; 小原和宏 , 日本大脳基底核研究会 , 33rd , 2018

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Research Grants & Projects

  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Exploring the brain mechanisms that realize goal-directed behavior while coping with interruptions , Kindai University
  2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Functional localization and corticofugal projections of premotor areas controlling posture and reaching
  3. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (A)), Area-specific contribution to locomotor control in premotor cortex

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