Hidehiko Takahashi

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   <name>Hidehiko Takahashi</name> 
   <affiliation>National Institute of Radiological Sciences</affiliation>
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   <url>http://www.nirs.go.jp/seika/brain/brain_e/group_03.html</url>
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Hidehiko Takahashi is a neuroimaging researcher, MD and PhD affiliated with the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Japan. There he is senior researcher in the Clinical Neuroimaging Team in the Department of Molecular Neuroimaging and leader of the project "Molecular mechanism of emotional decision-making".

His 2009 study on schadenfreude reached mainstream media.^[1]

[edit] Papers

1. Differential contributions of prefrontal and hippocampal dopamine D(1) and D(2) receptors in human cognitive functions
2. Impact of changing the Japanese term for "schizophrenia" for reasons of stereotypical beliefs of schizophrenia in Japanese youth
3. Neural correlates of human virtue judgment
4. When your gain is my pain and your pain is my gain: neural correlates of envy and schadenfreude

[edit] As co-author

1. Pathway to psychiatric care in Japan: a multicenter observational study
2. Relationship between neuroticism personality trait and serotonin transporter binding

[edit] References

1. ↑ (2009-02-17). "The green-eyed monster that lives in your brain: Scientists discover the jealousy lobe" In Mail Online. Associated Newspapers.