Michiko Kano, MD, PhD
  

Professionally   
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychosomatic Medicine
 

Department of Behavioral Medicine
Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
2 - 1 Seiryo, Aoba
Sendai 980-8575
Japan
 
Phone
+81-22-717-8215
Fax
+81-22-717-8215
Email
kano-m@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp


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Areas of Interest 
Alexithymia, emotion, psychosomatic medicine, neuroimaging
 
Publications

Hamaguchi T, Kano M, Rikimaru H, Kanazawa M, Itoh M, Yanai K, Fukudo S. Brain Activity during Distention of the Descending Colon in Humans. Neurogastroenterol Motil, in press.

Kano M, Fukudo S, Kanazawa M, Endo Y, Narita H, Tamura D, Hongo M. Changes in intestinal motility, visceral sensitivity and minor mucosal inflammation after fasting therapy in a patient with irritable bowel syndrome: A case report. J Gastroenterol Hepatol, in press .

Mochizuki H, Tashiro M, Kano M, Sakurada Y, Itoh M, Yanai K. Imaging of central itch modulation in the human brain using positron emission tomography. Pain. 2003 Sep;105(1-2):339-46

Kano M, Fukudo S, Gyoba J, Kamachi M, Tagawa M, Mochizuki H, Itoh M, Hongo M, Yanai K. Specific brain processing of facial expressions in people with alexithymia: an H215O-PET study. Brain 2003: 126: 1474-1484

Kano M, Gyoba J, Kamachi M, Mochizuki H, Hongo M, Yanai K. Low doses of alcohol have a selective effect on the recognition of happy facial expressions. Hum Psychopharmacol 2003:18(2): 131-9

Mochizuki H, Tashiro M, Tagawa M, Kano M, Itoh M, Okamura N, Watanabe T, Yanai K. The effects of a sedative antihistamine, d-chlorpheniramine, on visuomotor spatial discrimination and regional brain activity as measured by positron emission tomography (PET). Hum Psychopharmacol 2002; 17:413-8

Fukudo S, Kanazawa M, Kano M, Sagami Y, Endo Y, Utsumi A, Nomura T, Hongo M: Exaggerated Motility of the Descending Colon with Repetitive Distention of the Sigmoid Colon in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. J Gastroenterology 2002:37 Suppl 14:145-50

Tagawa M, Kano M, Okamura N, Higuchi M, Matsuda M, Y M, Arai H, Fujii T, Komemushi S, Itoh M, Sasaki H, Watanabe T, Yanai K: Differential cognitive effects of ebastine and d-chlorpheniramine in healthy subjects: Correlation between psychomotor performance and plasmaconcentration. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2002:53:296-304

Tagawa M, Kano M, Okamura N, Higuchi M, Matsuda M, Mizuki Y, Arai H, Iwata R, Fujii T, Komemushi S, Ido T, toh M, Sasaki H, Watanabe T, Yanai K:
Neuroimaging of histamine H1-receptor occupancy in human brain by positron emission tomography (PET): A comparative study of ebastine, a second-generation antihistamine, and (+)-chlorpheniramine, a classical antihistamine. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2001:52:501-509

Tagawa M, Kano M, Okamura N, Itoh M, Sakurai E, Watanabe T, Yanai K. Relationship between effects of alcohol on psychomotor performances and blood alcohol concentrations. Jpn J Pharmacol 2000:83:253-60

Itabashi S, Kano M, Endo K, Sasaki H: A resuscitated case from asphyxia by large bronchial cast. TOHOKU J EXP MED. 1999:187 (2): 183-188

 

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