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New plasticity induction method in human brain

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16H05322
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Neurology
Research InstitutionFukushima Medical University

Principal Investigator

Ugawa Yoshikazu  福島県立医科大学, 神経再生医療学講座, 教授 (50168671)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥17,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥10,920,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,520,000)
Keywordsシナプス可塑性誘導 / バイオマーカー / 磁気刺激 / 脊髄可塑性誘導 / 筋萎縮性側索硬化症 / パーキンソン病 / アルツハイマー病 / 臨床神経生理学 / 脳・神経 / 神経、脳神経疾患 / 軸索可塑性誘導 / 大脳可塑性 / 加齢 / 可塑性誘導 / 薬物作用機序 / 脊髄での可塑性 / QPS / 歩行誘導
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The nervous system is always flexible and is able to change its function in response to any internal or external challenges. Neurological disorders often lose this flexibility especially in the early stage of the disease. Most treatments try to regain this flexibility with drugs. However, some non-invasive brain stimulation may induce the flexibility (plasticity).
In this investigation, we studied neuro-plasticity in normal subjects and neurological patients using our newly developed quadripulse stimulation (QPS). In normal subjects, QPS was able to make our brain more flexible (induction of plasticity) without any adverse effects. This flexibility enhancement is age-dependent, older persons have less power to make the flexibility.
In Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer disease, the flexibility was affected even at very early disease stage with no clinical symptoms. Non-invasive stimulation may be one treatment candidate for neurological disorders.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

多くの病気の治療は薬物治療であり、脳の病気もその一つであろう。しかし、脳は刺激ができて、外科手術により電極を脳に留置して治療をする方法も試みられている。脳を頭蓋骨の外から刺激できる磁気刺激が開発され、手術せずに治療をする事ができれば、社会的インパクトは大きい。本研究では、ヒトの脳を非侵襲的に磁気刺激することにより、脳の可塑性(柔軟性)が安全に誘導できる事が示された。さらに、パーキンソン病、アルツハイマー病などでは初期からこの柔軟性が障害されている事が証明された。従って、脳の柔軟性を増強させる事ができる、反復磁気刺激法は、今後脳神経疾患の治療法となる可能性がある。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Annual Research Report
  • 2016 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (33 results)

All 2019 2018 2017 2016 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (3 results) Journal Article (16 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 7 results,  Peer Reviewed: 16 results,  Open Access: 6 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 5 results) Presentation (14 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 14 results,  Invited: 14 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Jakrata University(インドネシア)

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Aalto University(フィンランド)

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Heinrich-Heine-University(Germany)

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Effect of caffeine on long-term potentiation-like effects induced by quadripulse transcranial magnetic stimulation.2019

    • Author(s)
      Hanajima R, Tanaka N, Tsutsumi R, Shirota Y, Shimizu T, Terao Y, Ugawa Y.
    • Journal Title

      Exp Brain Res.

      Volume: 237 Issue: 3 Pages: 647-651

    • DOI

      10.1007/s00221-018-5450-9

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The intensity of continuous theta burst stimulation, but not the waveform used to elicit motor evoked potentials, influences its outcome in the human motor cortex.2018

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki T, Kodama S, Togashi N, Shirota Y, Sugiyama Y, Tokushikge S, Inomata-Terada S, Terao Y, Ugawa Y, Hamada M
    • Journal Title

      Brain stimulation

      Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Pages: 400-410

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.brs.2017.12.003

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Sensory cortex hyperexcitability predicts short survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.2018

    • Author(s)
      Toshio Shimizu, Kota Bokuda, Hideki Kimura, Tsutomu Kamiyama, Yuki Nakayama, Akihiro Kawata, Eiji Isozaki, and Yoshikazu Ugawa
    • Journal Title

      Neurology

      Volume: 90 Issue: 18

    • DOI

      10.1212/wnl.0000000000005424

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report 2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Modulation of motor learning by a paired associative stimulation protocol inducing LTD-like effects2018

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki Takuya、Shirota Yuichiro、Kodama Satoshi、Togashi Naohiko、Sugiyama Yusuke、Tokushige Shin-ichi、Inomata-Terada Satomi、Terao Yasuo、Ugawa Yoshikazu、Toda Tatsushi、Hamada Masashi
    • Journal Title

      Brain Stimulation

      Volume: 11 Issue: 6 Pages: 1314-1321

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.brs.2018.07.054

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The motor network reduces multisensory illusory perception2018

    • Author(s)
      Murakami T, Abe M, Wiratman W, Fujiwara J, Okamoto M, Mizuochi-Endo T, Iwabuchi T, Makuuchi M, Yamashita A, Tiksnadi A, Chang F, Kubo H, Matsuda N, Kobayashi S, Eifuku S, Ugawa Y
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Neuroscience

      Volume: 38 Issue: 45 Pages: 9679

    • DOI

      10.1523/jneurosci.3650-17.2018

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] A multi-scale computational approach based on TMS experiments for the assessment of electro-stimulation thresholds of the brain at intermediate frequencies.2018

    • Author(s)
      Soldati, Marco; Mikkonen, Marko; Laakso, Ilkka; Murakami, Takenobu; Ugawa, Yoshikazu; Hirata, Akimasa
    • Journal Title

      Phys Med Biol.

      Volume: 63 Issue: 22 Pages: 225006-225006

    • DOI

      10.1088/1361-6560/aae932

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Where and what TMS activates: experiments and modeling. Brain Stimul2018

    • Author(s)
      Ilkka L, Murakami T, Hirata A, Ugawa Y
    • Journal Title

      Brain Stimulation

      Volume: 11(1) Issue: 1 Pages: 166-174

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.brs.2017.09.011

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report 2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The intensity of continuous theta burst stimulation, but not the waveform used to elicit motor evoked potentials, influences its outcome in the human motor cortex.2018

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki T, Kodama S, Togashi N, Shirota Y, Sugiyama Y, Tokushikge S, Inomata-Terada S, Terao Y, Ugawa Y, Hamada M
    • Journal Title

      Brain stimul

      Volume: in press Pages: 1-10

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The effect of age on the homotopic motor cortical long-term potentiation-like effect induced by quadripulse stimulation2017

    • Author(s)
      Hanajima R, Tanaka N, Tsutsumi R, Enomoto H, Abe M, Nakamura K, Kobayashi S, Hamada M, Shimizu T, Terao Y, Ugawa Y
    • Journal Title

      Exp Brain Res

      Volume: 235 Issue: 7 Pages: 2103

    • DOI

      10.1007/s00221-017-4953-0

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Impairment of triad conditioned facilitation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.2017

    • Author(s)
      Groiss SJ, Mochizuki H, Hanajima R, Trenado C, Nakatani-Enomoto S, Otani K, Ugawa Y.
    • Journal Title

      Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener.

      Volume: 7-8 Issue: 7-8 Pages: 604-610

    • DOI

      10.1080/21678421.2017.1321676

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report 2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Low intensity transcranial electric stimulation: Safety, ethical, legal regulatory and application guidelines.2017

    • Author(s)
      A Antal,…… Y Ugawa, ………, M Hallett, W Paulus
    • Journal Title

      Clinical Neurophysiology

      Volume: 128(9) Issue: 9 Pages: 1774-1809

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.clinph.2017.06.001

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Plasticity induced by non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation: a position paper.2017

    • Author(s)
      Huang Y, Lu M, Antal A, Classen J, Nitsche M, Ziemann U, Ridding M, Hamada M, Ugawa Y, Jaberzadeh S, Suppa A, Paulus W, Rothwell J
    • Journal Title

      Clinical Neurophysiology

      Volume: 128 Issue: 11 Pages: 2318-2329

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.clinph.2017.09.007

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The effect of age on the homotopic motor cortical long-term potentiation-like effect induced by quadripulse stimulation.2017

    • Author(s)
      Hanajima R, Tanaka N, Tsutsumi R, Enomoto H, Abe M, Nakamura K, Kobayashi S, Hamada M, Shimizu T, Terao Y, Ugawa Y
    • Journal Title

      Exp Brain Res

      Volume: in press

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] How saccade intrusions affect subsequent motor and oculomotor actions.2017

    • Author(s)
      Yasuo Terao,Hideki Fukuda,Shin-ichi Tokushige,Satomi Inomata-Terada,Yoshikazu Ugawa
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Neuroscience

      Volume: - Pages: 608-608

    • DOI

      10.3389/fnins.2016.00608

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Cerebellar dysfunction in essential tremor.2016

    • Author(s)
      Hanajaima R, Tsutsumi R, Shirota Y, Shimizu T, Tanaka N, Ugawa Y
    • Journal Title

      Mov Disord

      Volume: 31 Pages: 1230-1234

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Variability in Response to Quadripulse Stimulation of the Motor Cortex2016

    • Author(s)
      Nakamura K., Groiss S.J., Hamada M., Enomoto H., Kadowaki S., Abe M., Murakami T., Wiratman W., Chang F., Kobayashi S., Hanajima R., Terao Y., Ugawa Y.
    • Journal Title

      Brain Stimulation

      Volume: 9 Issue: 6 Pages: 859

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.brs.2016.01.008

    • URL

      https://pure.teikyo.jp/en/publications/e43b4d03-2322-4e3d-b65d-94790ac9e329

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Differential effects on corticospinal excitability and adaptaion task by parred associative stimualtion (PAS) with disticnt pulse width.2019

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      3rd International Brain Stimulation Conference,
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Essentials of Repetitive Transcranial Mgnetic Stimulation.2018

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      31st International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology.
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report 2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Structures Activated by TMS and Stimulating Current Direction. Based on Own Human Experimental Data.2018

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      31st International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology.
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Cerebellar inhibition (CBI), Prism adaptation Eye-hand coordination.2018

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      The 9th International Symposium of the Society for Research on the Cerebellum and Ataxias (SRCA)
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) application in Neurological Disorders: Central and Peripheral Disorders. J2018

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      Japanese Society of Neurology (JSN) and Malaysian Society of Neurosciences (MSN) Joint Sympsium
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Dendritic computation and I-wave generation. Symposium, Current direction in TMS revisited.2017

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      2nd International Brain Stimulation Conference, March 5-8, 2017,
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] TMS treatment of Parkinson's disease.2017

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      23rd World Congress of Neurology
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Plasticity induction in human brain.2017

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      6th Asian-Oceanian Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (AOCCN)
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] onnectivity and MRS changes induced by Quadripulse stimulation.2016

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      Updates on Human Brain Connectome: From Physiology to Diseases
    • Place of Presentation
      Rome, Italy
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-28
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Quadripulse stimulation (QPS): a new plasticity induction method in humans.2016

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      19th Ntional Conference of Neurology,
    • Place of Presentation
      Guangzhou, China
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Reliability and reproducibility - The solution.2016

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      6th International Conference on Transcranial Brain Stimulation.
    • Place of Presentation
      Goettingen, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-07
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Quadripulse stimualton (QPS): a new plasticity induction method in humans2016

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      31st Intrernational Congress of Psychology
    • Place of Presentation
      Yokohama, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-24
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Modulation of plasticity in Parkinson's disease2016

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      20th International Congress of Parkinson's disease and Movement Disorders
    • Place of Presentation
      Berlin, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2016-06-19
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Neuroplasticity induction in human brain2016

    • Author(s)
      Ugawa Y
    • Organizer
      32nd Annual Meeting of Turkish Clinical Neurophysiolgy
    • Place of Presentation
      Bodrum, Turkey
    • Year and Date
      2016-04-27
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited

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