統合失調症の脳神経画像解析を、VBMやFreeSurferの手法を用いた三次元脳構造画像解析や、拡散テンソル画像解析、そしてImaging geneticsの成果が得られています。安静時機能的MRI画像(rsfMRI)のデータを多数保有しており、現在、論文化に向けて解析中です。

オールジャパンのCOCORO共同研究機関や世界的なコンソーシアムのENIGMAとのコラボレーションによる成果もあり、豊富なデータを用いた世界的な研究が可能です。

  1. Okada N, Fukunaga M, Yamashita F, Koshiyama D, Yamamori H, Ohi K, Yasuda Y, Fujimoto M, Watanabe Y, Yahata N, Nemoto K, Hibar D, van Erp T, Fujino H, Isobe M, Isomura S, Natsubori T, Narita H, Hashimoto N, Miyata J, Koike S, Takahashi T, Yamasue H, Matsuo K, Onitsuka T, Iidaka T, Kawasaki Y, Yoshimura R, Watanabe Y, Suzuki M, Turner J, Takeda M, Thompson P, Ozaki N, Kasai K, *Hashimoto R, COCORO. Abnormal asymmetries in subcortical brain volume in schizophrenia. Mol Psychiatry, 21:1460-1466, 2016.10
  2. van Erp T, Hibar D, Rasmussen J, Glahn D, Pearlson G, Andreassen O, Agartz I, Westlye L, Haukvik UK, Dale A, Melle I, Hartberg C, Gruber O, Kramer B, Zilles D, Donohoe G, Kelly S, McDonald C, Morris D, Cannon DM, Corvin A, Machielsen M, Koenders L, de Haan L, Veltman D, Satterthwaite T, Wolf D, Gur RC, Gur RE, Potkin S, Mathalon D, Mueller B, Preda A, Macciardi F, Ehrlich S, Walton E, Hass J, Calhoun V, Bockholt H, Sponheim S, Shoemaker J, van Haren N, Hulshoff Pol H, Ophoff R, Kahn RS, Roiz-Santianez R, Crespo-Facorro B, Wang L, Alpert K, Jonsson E, Dimitrova R, Bois C, Whalley H, McIntosh A, Lawrie S, Hashimoto R, (58名中56番目)Thompson P, Turner J, for the ENIGMA Schizophrenia Working Group, Subcortical Brain Volume Abnormalities in 2,028 Individuals with Schizophrenia and 2,540 Healthy Controls via the ENIGMA Consortium. Molecular Psychiatry, 21(4):547-553, 2016.4
  3. *Nakazawa T, *Hashimoto R, Sakoori K, Sugaya Y, Tanimura A, Hashimotodani Y, Ohi K, Yamamori H, Yasuda Y, Umeda-Yano S, Kiyama Y, Konno K, Inoue T, Yokoyama K, Inoue T, Numata S, Ohnuma T, Iwata N, Ozaki N, Hashimoto H, Watanabe M, Manabe T, Yamamoto T, Takeda M, *Kano M. Emerging Roles of ARHGAP33 in Intracellular Trafficking of TrkB and Pathophysiology of Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Nat Commun, 7:10594, 2016.2
  4. Li M, Ohi K, Chen C, He Q, Lu JW, Chen C. Luo XJ, Dong Q, Hashimoto R, Su B. Failure of replicating the association between hippocampal volume and 3 single-nucleotide polymorphisms identified from theEuropean genome-wide association study in Asian populations. Neurobiol Aging, 35(12):2883e.1-2, 2014.12,
  5. *Hashimoto R, Ikeda M, Yamashita F, Ohi K, Yamamori H, Yasuda Y, Fujimoto M, Fukunaga M, Nemoto K, Takahashi T, Ochigi M, Onitsuka T, Yamasue H, Matsuo K, Iidaka T, Iwata N, Suzuki M, Takeda M, Kasai K, Ozaki N. Common variants at 1p36 are associated with superior frontal gyrus volume. Transl Psychiatry, 4:e472, 2014. 10
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  7. Ohi K, *Hashimoto R, Ikeda M, Yamashita F, Fukunaga M, Nemoto K, Ohnishi T, Yamamori H, Yasuda Y, Fujimoto M, Umeda-Yano S, Watanabe Y, Iwata N, Weinberger DR, Takeda M. Genetic risk variants of schizophrenia associated with left superior temporal gyrus volume. Cortex, 58C:23-26, 2014.6
  8. Ohi K, *Hashimoto R, Yamamori H, Yasuda Y, Fujimoto M, Umeda-Yano S, Fukunaga M, Watanabe Y, Iwase M, Kazui H, Takeda M. The impact of the genome-wide supported variant in the cyclin M2 gene on gray matter morphology in schizophrenia. Behav Brain Funct, 9(1):40, 2013.10
  9. Aleksic B., Kushima I, Hashimoto R, Ohi K, Ikeda M, Yoshimi A, Nakamura Y, Ito Y, Okochi T, Fukuo Y, Yasuda Y, Fukumoto M, Yamamori H, Ujike H, Suzuki M, Inada T, Takeda M, Kaibuchi K, Iwata N, Ozaki N. Analysis of the VAV3 as candidate gene for schizophrenia: evidences from voxel based morphometry and mutation screening. Schizophr Bull, 39(3):720-8, 2013.5
  10. Ohi K, *Hashimoto R, Yasuda Y, Fukumoto M, Nemoto K, Ohnishi T, Yamamori H, Takahashi H, Iike N, Kamino K, Yoshida T, Azechi M, Ikezawa K, Tanimukai H, Tagami S, Morihara T, Okochi M, Tanaka T, Kudo T, Iwase M, Kazui H, Takeda M. The AKT1 gene is associated with attention and brain morphology in schizophrenia. World J Biol Psychiatry, 14(2):100-13, 2013.3
  11. Ota M, Sato N, Ishikawa M, Hori H, Sasayama D, Hattori K, Teraishi T, Obu S, Nakata Y, Nemoto K, Moriguchi Y, Hashimoto R, Kunugi H. Discrimination of schizophrenic females from healthy women using multiple structural brain measures obtained with voxel-based morphometry. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 66(7):611-7, 2012.12
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  17. Nemoto K, Ohnishi T, Mori T, Moriguchi Y, Hashimoto R, Asada T, Kunugi H. The Val66Met polymorphism of the BDNF gene affects age-related brain morphology. Neurosci Lett, 397(1-2):25-29, 2006.4
  18. Ohnishi T, Hashimoto R, Mori T, Nemoto K, Moriguchi Y, Iida H, Yamada M, Noguchi H, Nakabayashi T, Hori H, Ohmori M, Tsukue R, Anami K, Hirabayashi N, Harada S, Arima K, Saitoh O, Kunugi H. The association between the Val158Met polymorphism of the Catechol-O-methyl transferase gene and morphological abnormalities of the brain in chronic schizophrenia. Brain, 129:399-410, 2006.2
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