Thoru Yamada, MD
Emeritus Professor of Neurology
Introduction
Brain, spinal cord electrical activities and responses, Computer application of brain physiology, Somatosensory evoked potentials, Brain response in sleep, Computer application of quantitative EEG
Current Positions
- Emeritus Professor of Neurology
- Specialty: Clinical Electrophysiology
- Director, Division of Clinical Electrophysiology, Neurology
Education
- MD, Nagoya University, School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Resident, Nagoya University Branch Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Fellow in EEG/Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Resident in Neurology, Kansas City General Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- Resident in Neurology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Research Interests
- Evoked Potential Studies, Sleep Medicine, Epilepsy
Licenses & Certifications
- American Board of Sleep Medicine
- Medical License, State of Iowa, Iowa
- Medical License, State of Minnesota, Minnesota
- American Board Clinical Neurophysiology (formerly American Board of Qualification in EEG)
- Medical License, State of Michigan, Michigan
- E.C.G.M.G.
- Japanese Physician’s license
Selected Publications
- Nguyen, C. M., Yamada, T., Beglinger, L. J., Cavanaugh, J. E., Denburg, N. L. & Schultz, S. K. (2012). Cognitive features 10 or more years after successful breast cancer survival: comparisons across types of cancer interventions. Psycho-oncology. PMID: 22585465. PMCID: PMC3475736.
- McCormick, L. M., Brumm, M. C., Beadle, J. N., Paradiso, S., Yamada, T. & Andreasen, N. (2012). Mirror neuron function, psychosis, and empathy in schizophrenia. Psychiatry research 201 (3) 233-9. PMID: 22510432. PMCID: PMC3545445.
- Remes-Troche, J. M., Tantiphlachiva, K., Attaluri, A., Valestin, J., Yamada, T., Hamdy, S. & Rao, S. S. (2011). A bi-directional assessment of the human brain-anorectal axis. Neurogastroenterology and motility : the official journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society 23 (3) 240-8, e117-8. PMID: 20964791. PMCID: PMC3035753.
- Yamada, T. (2011). EEG Monitoring for Carotid Endarterectomy. In Lopes da Silva, F. & Shomer, D. (Eds.) Electroencephalography, Basic, Principle, Clinical Application and Related Fields. pp. 787-808. Lippincott, Wilkens, Williams.
- Yamada, T. & Meng, E. (2011). Practical guide for clinical neurophysiologic testing:EP, LTM, IOM, PSG and NCS volume II. Lippincott, Wildins & Williams.
- Fujisawa, R., Kimura, J., Saniguchi, S., Ichikawa, J., Hara, M., Shimizu, H., Iida, H. & Yamada, T. (2011). Effect of volitional relaxation and motor imagery on f wave and MEP: Do these tasks affect excitability of the spinal or cortical motor neurons?. Clin Neurophysiol 122 1405-1410.
- Hara, M., Kimura, J., Waler, D., Taniguchi, S., Ichikawa, H., Fujisawa, R., Shimizu, H., Abe, T., Yamada, T., Kayamori, R. & Mizutani, T. (2010). Effect of Motor Imagery and Voluntary Muscle Contraction on the F-Wave. Muscle & Nerve.
- Narushima, K., McCormick, L. M., Yamada, T., Thatcher, R. W. & Robinson, R. G. (2010). Subgenual cingulate theta activity predicts treatment response of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in participants with vascular depression. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 22 (1) 75-84. PMID: 20160213.
- Yamada, T., Denburg, N. L., Beglinger, L. J. & Schultz, S. K. (2010). Neuropsychological outcomes of older breast cancer survivors: cognitive features ten or more years after chemotherapy. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 22 (1) 48-54. PMID: 20160209.
- Narushima, K., McCormick, L. M., Yamada, T., Thatcher, R. W. & Robinson, R. G. (2010). Subgenual cingulate theta activity predicts treatment response of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in participants with vascular depression. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 22 (1) 75-88.