Yuko Nakamura

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Affiliation: Associate Professor, Graduate School and College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, The University of Tokyo

J-GLOBAL ID: 201701019030579082
researchmap Member ID: B000281835

行動実験や質問紙調査、機能的MRI(fMRI)実験を行い、摂食制御にかかわる生理的および心理的要因を明らかにしようとしています。具体的には、質問紙調査によって摂食行動のパターンを評価したり、食物刺激に対する脳活動をfMRIで計測したりすることで、体重管理や摂食行動の管理にかかわる神経基盤を解明しようとしています。

Research Interests

Research Areas

Life sciences / Basic brain sciences / Cognitive neuroscience

Research History

Apr, 2022 - Present

The University of Tokyo
Jan, 2018 - Mar, 2022

特任助教, 東京大学総合文化研究科人間行動科学研究拠点
Sep, 2016 - Dec, 2017

The University of Tokyo
Sep, 2013 - Aug, 2016

Research associate, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University
Jan, 2013 - Mar, 2014

助教, 口腔画像情報科学教室, 九州大学歯学研究院
Apr, 2012 - Dec, 2012

Kyushu University
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2012

助教, 口腔画像情報科学教室, 九州大学歯学研究院
Nov, 2006 - Mar, 2007

Hospital, Kyoto University
Apr, 2006 - Oct, 2006

歯科研修医, 洛和会音羽病院

Education

Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2011

Dental science, Graduate school, Kyushu University
Apr, 2000 - Mar, 2006

Dental science, Dental science, Kyushu University

Awards

Jun, 2024

フォリア賞, 日本精神神経学会

中村優子
Apr, 2019

The best research award, Disrupted pallidum functional networks were associated with psychiatric disorders, The Japanese Society of Schizophrenia Research

Yuko Nakamura
Jul, 2018

IADR Joseph Lister Award for New Investigators Ten finalist, The International Association for Dental Research

Yuko Nakamura
Jun, 2016

Young Investigator Award, International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste

Yuko Nakamura
Jun, 2014

The Best article award, Japanese society for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology

Yuko Nakamura
Nov, 2009

Young Investigator Award, Academy of Advanced Applied Science in Oral Medicine

Yuko Nakamura

Papers

The role of frontal pole cortex and personalized feedback in sustaining future-oriented healthy dietary behaviors

Chihiro Hosoda, Ryuji Ochiai, Kenchi Hosokawa, Yuko Nakamura, Takuto Matsuhashi, Kazuo Okanoya

Scientific Reports, 15(1), May 2, 2025 Peer-reviewed
Alterations of Activity in Visual Areas of Left Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients: Evidence from Moving Facial Emotional Tasks

Kanako Oya, Akihiro Tanaka, Yuko Nakamura, Daisuke Ueno, Naoki Akamatsu, Toshiki Mizuno

Annals of Neurosciences, Mar 27, 2025 Peer-reviewed
The effect of multiband sequences on statistical outcome measures in functional magnetic resonance imaging using a gustatory stimulus

Yuko Nakamura, Takuya Ishida

NeuroImage, 120867-120867, Sep 24, 2024 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Daily fat intake is associated with basolateral amygdala response to high-calorie food cues and appetite for high-calorie food

Yuko Nakamura, Shinsuke Koike

Nutritional Neuroscience, 27(8) 809-817, Aug, 2024 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Macronutrient intake is associated with intelligence and neural development in adolescents

Yuko Nakamura, Syudo Yamasaki, Naohiro Okada, Shuntaro Ando, Atsushi Nishida, Kiyoto Kasai, Shinsuke Koike

Frontiers in Nutrition, 11, Apr 18, 2024 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Alterations in subcortical magnetic susceptibility and disease-specific relationship with brain volume in major depressive disorder and schizophrenia

Shuhei Shibukawa, Hirohito Kan, Shiori Honda, Masataka Wada, Ryosuke Tarumi, Sakiko Tsugawa, Yui Tobari, Norihide Maikusa, Masaru Mimura, Hiroyuki Uchida …

Translational Psychiatry, 14(1), Mar 26, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Common and Disease-Specific Alterations in Mesocorticolimbic Circuits of Various Psychiatric Disorders

Yuko NAKAMURA, Takuya ISHIDA, Shinsuke KOIKE

126(3) 171-176, Mar 25, 2024 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Hippocampal Structures Among Japanese Adolescents Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lin Cai, Norihide Maikusa, Yinghan Zhu, Atsushi Nishida, Shuntaro Ando, Naohiro Okada, Kiyoto Kasai, Yuko Nakamura, Shinsuke Koike

JAMA Network Open, 7(2) e2355292-e2355292, Feb 8, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Food go/no-go training alters neural circuits for food evaluation for appetite reduction

Yuko Nakamura, Mizuki Okemoto, Toshikazu Ikuta

Appetite, 192 107099-107099, Jan, 2024 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
多施設大規模脳画像データより明らかになった精神疾患の脳内大規模ネットワーク間の因果性結合異常

石田卓也, 中村優子, 田中沙織, 岡本泰昌, 村井俊哉, 笠井清登, 川人光男, 小池進介

精神神経学雑誌, (2023特別号) S568-S568, Jun, 2023
Developing and validating a Japanese version of the Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire.

Yuko Nakamura, Michiko Asano

Eating and weight disorders : EWD, 28(1) 44-44, May 17, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Distinctive alterations in the mesocorticolimbic circuits in various psychiatric disorders

Yuko Nakamura, Takuya Ishida, Saori C. Tanaka, Yuki Mitsuyama, Satoshi Yokoyama, Hotaka Shinzato, Eri Itai, Go Okada, Yuko Kobayashi, Takahiko Kawashima …

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 77(6) 345-354, Mar 11, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Aberrant Large-Scale Network Interactions Across Psychiatric Disorders Revealed by Large-Sample Multi-Site Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Datasets

Takuya Ishida, Yuko Nakamura, Saori C Tanaka, Yuki Mitsuyama, Satoshi Yokoyama, Hotaka Shinzato, Eri Itai, Go Okada, Yuko Kobayashi, Takahiko Kawashima …

Schizophrenia Bulletin, 49(4) 933-943, Mar 9, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Nutrient infusion evoked magnetic resonance imaging signal in the human hypothalamus

Yuko Nakamura, Mariko Takahashi, Yukiko Inoue, Shintaro Yanagimoto, Kazuo Okanoya, Shinsuke Koike

Nutritional Neuroscience, 25(12) 2528-2535, Dec, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Respective Involvement of the Right Cerebellar Crus I and II in Syntactic and Semantic Processing for Comprehension of Language

Hironori Nakatani, Yuko Nakamura, Kazuo Okanoya

The Cerebellum, 22(4) 739-755, Aug 4, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Future Directions for Chemosensory Connectomes: Best Practices and Specific Challenges

Maria G. Veldhuizen, Cinzia Cecchetto, Alexander W. Fjaeldstad, Michael C. Farruggia, Renée Hartig, Yuko Nakamura, Robert Pellegrino, Andy W. K. Yeung, Florian Ph. S. Fischmeister

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16, May 30, 2022 Peer-reviewed
The effect of acquisition duration on cerebral blood flow‐based resting‐state functional connectivity

Yuko Nakamura, Akiko Uematsu, Kazuo Okanoya, Shinsuke Koike

Human Brain Mapping, 43(10) 3184-3194, Mar 26, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Unique Morphometric Features of the Cerebellum and Cerebellocerebral Structural Correlation between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia

Chie Morimoto, Yuko Nakamura, Hitoshi Kuwabara, Osamu Abe, Kiyoto Kasai, Hidenori Yamasue, Shinsuke Koike

Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 1(3) 219-228, Jun, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Association of Disinhibited Eating and Trait of Impulsivity With Insula and Amygdala Responses to Palatable Liquid Consumption

Yuko Nakamura, Shinsuke Koike

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 15 647143-647143, May 3, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Dietary Restraint Related to Body Weight Maintenance and Neural Processing in Value-Coding Areas in Adolescents

Yuko Nakamura, Shuntaro Ando, Syudo Yamasaki, Naohiro Okada, Atsushi Nishida, Kiyoto Kasai, Saori Tanaka, Hironori Nakatani, Shinsuke Koike

The Journal of Nutrition, 151(7) 2059-2067, Apr 13, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author

Misc.

Post-prandial triglycerides influence brain response to food odors in a D2R-dependent manner

Yuko Nakamura, Xue Sun, Maria G. Veldhuizen, Serge Luquet, Dana M. Small

CHEMICAL SENSES, 41(9) E189-E189, Nov, 2016
Evidence for Central Regulation of Taste Sensitivity

Maria G. Veldhuizen, Yuko Nakamura, Barry G. Green, Dana M. Small

CHEMICAL SENSES, 41(7) E56-E56, Sep, 2016
Detecting the Taste-Specific Temporal Type by fMRI - Salty and Sweet

Yuko Nakamura, Tazuko K. Goto, Kenji Tokumori, Takashi Yoshiura, Koji Kobayashi, Yasuhiko Nakamura, Hiroshi Honda, Yuzo Ninomiya, Kazunori Yoshiura

CHEMICAL SENSES, 34(7) A54-A54, Sep, 2009

Presentations

Neural connectivity related with weight bias internalization

Yuko Nakamura

Mar 7, 2025
Title: Mediating Effect of Public Self-Consciousness on the Relationship Between Internalized Weight Stigma and Weight Status

Yuko Nakamura

The 21st International Symposium on Molecular and Neural mechanisms of Taste and Olfactory Perception (ISMNTOP XXI, YRUF XXI, AISCRIB XII), Mar 2, 2025 Invited
Differences in effective connectivity in the mesocorticolimbic circuits across various psychiatric disorders

Yuko Nakamura

NEURO 2024, Jul 26, 2024
Weight bias internalization is connected with brain response to food reward in the value-coding region

Yuko Nakamura

The 45th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Biological Psychiatry, Nov 5, 2023
Weight bias internalization is associated with neural activation in the food-reward coding region

Yuko Nakamura

The 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Jul 14, 2023
Brain responses to food reward

Yuko Nakamura

International Symposium Interactions between an individual and real world: research on nutrition, Dec 7, 2022 Invited
Developing a Japanese version of the Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire

Yuko Nakamura

Dec 2, 2022
Hypothalamus response to consume macronutrients in humans

Yuko Nakamura

The 56th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for the Study of Taste and Smell, Aug 22, 2022 Invited
The food go/no-go task modulates desire to eat, snack intake, and neural response to food images in the brain regions associated with ingestive behavior

Yuko Nakamura, Mizuki Okemoto, Wai Law

The 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Jul 12, 2022
The food go/no-go task modulates activity in the insula and pons to promote healthy dietary choices

Yuko Nakamura, Mizuki Okemoto

NEURO 2022, Jul 1, 2022
Hypothalamic response to nutrient infusion to the gut

Yuko Nakamura

Mar 27, 2022
Macronutrient infusion evoked functional magnetic resonance imaging signal changes in the human hypothalamus.

Yuko Nakamura, Mariko Takahashi, Shinsuke Koike

The 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Jul 12, 2021
Macronutrient infusion evoked functional magnetic resonance imaging signal changes in the human hypothalamus

Yuko Nakamura

The 5th Japan Human Brain Imaging Talk Series, Jun 16, 2021 Invited
Differences in Mesolimbic Connectivity Networks Across Various Psychiatric Disorders

Yuko Nakamura, Shinsuke Koike

The Society of Biological Psychiatry's 75th Annual Scientific Program and Convention, Apr 30, 2020
Disrupted pallidum functional networks were associated with psychiatric disorders

Yuko Nakamura

Jun 22, 2019
The neural circuit of food restriction

Yuko Nakamura, Shinsuke Koike

Jun 14, 2019
Psychiatric disorders associated with disrupted pallidum functional networks

Yuko Nakamura, Naohiro Okada, Shinsuke Koike

25th Annual meeting of the organization for human brain mapping, Jun 9, 2019
Disrupted pallidum functional networks were associated with psychiatric disorders

Yuko Nakamura

The 14th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Schizophrenia Research, Apr 19, 2019
Distinct brain responses to different food cues in adolescents.

Nakamura Y, Koike S

96th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, Jul 25, 2018
VTA network differences between schizophrenia and major depressive disorder

Nakamura Y, Koike S

Neuroscience 2017, Nov 15, 2017

Teaching Experience

Sep, 2023 - Present

University-wide Liberal Arts Courses (Comprehensive Courses) Recognition,Behavior and Body (Rikkyo University)
Apr, 2023 - Present

Special Lectures of Liberal Arts for Advanced Students (Introduction to Human Integrative Science and Education of Mind) (The University of Tokyo)
Apr, 2023 - Present

Seminar on Cognitive and Behavior Sciences II (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)
2020 - Present

高度教養特殊演習（脳認知科学実習） (東京大学)
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013

歯科放射線学 (久留米歯科衛生専門学校)
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2012

歯科放射線実習 (九州大学)
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2012

口腔画像診断学 (九州大学)

Professional Memberships

Jan, 2023 - Present

日本肥満症治療学会
Jan, 2022

日本肥満学会
THE JAPAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY
The Society for Neuroscience
JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL RADIOLOGY

Research Projects

食品に含まれる脂質と糖質が食品の嗜好性に及ぼす相乗効果

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(B), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2027

中村優子
糖質と脂質の混合食が感覚-栄養学習を介した嗜好形成に与える影響

奨励研究助成, 公益財団法人ロッテ財団, Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2026

中村優子
大集団脳科学による個体脳ー世界相互作用に基づく人間の当事者化の脳行動モデル構築

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Sep, 2021 - Mar, 2026
機能的MRIを用いた認知行動課題による過食抑制効果の神経メカニズムの解明

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022

中村優子
食物刺激を用いた摂食行動変容の認知課題の作製と、その神経基盤の解明

2019年度ロッテ財団第6回「奨励研究助成」助成金, ロッテ財団, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2021

中村優子
Neural mechanisms of personalized value

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jun, 2016 - Mar, 2021

Tanaka Saori
大規模疾患横断脳画像データ解析による統合失調症発症のAI予測

2019年度武田科学振興財団医学系研究助成(精神・神経・脳領域), 公益財団法人武田科学振興財団, Nov, 2019

中村優子
消化管から中枢神経系へ伝達される栄養素シグナルによる摂食制御の基盤

学術研究助成金, 飯島藤十郎記念食品科学振興財団, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2019

中村優子
人工甘味料が摂食制御の神経回路に及ぼす影響

研究奨励金, 公益財団法人上原記念生命科学財団, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2019

中村優子
ヒト fMRIを用いたアミノ酸摂取による中枢神経刺激作用の神経学的研究

第23回うま味研究助成, うま味研究会, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

中村優子
新しいfMRI課題を用いた思春期の児童における非生理的摂食の神経・心理学的研究

平成２９年度科学研究費助成事業若手研究（Ｂ）, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

中村優子
実際的食育プログラムの開発を目指した、思春期の児童における摂食制御の神経心理学的メカニズムの解明

第12回児童教育実践についての研究助成, 博報児童教育振興会, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2018

中村優子
咀嚼運動と記憶・認知機能の関連

平成２４年度科学研究費助成事業若手研究（Ｂ）, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2014

中村優子
消化管から伝達されるうま味シグナルに対するヒト脳活動計測

第１１回リバネス研究費はなまる賞, リバネス株式会社, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013

中村優子

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