論文

Kokubun K, Nemoto K, Shiga Y, Makizato Y, Komaki A, Yamakawa Y. (2025).

Incorporating “kawaii-ness” into your life may increase gray matter volume in the putamen and frontal gyrus

 Acta Psychologica, Volume 252.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104663

Yoshida K, Nemoto K, Hamano A, Kawamori M, Arai T, Yamakawa Y. (2024).

Brain Healthcare Quotient as a Tool for Standardized Approach in Brain Healthcare Interventions

 Life 14, no. 5: 560.

https://doi.org/10.3390/life14050560

Kokubun K, Nemoto K, Yamakawa Y. (2024).

Smartphone app for lifestyle improvement improves brain health and boosts the vitality and cognitive function of healthy middle-aged adults. 

Brain Behavior, 14(5):e3500. 

https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.3500

Kokubun, K., Nemoto, K., & Yamakawa, Y. (2024). 

Continuous inhalation of essential oil increases gray matter volume. 

Brain Research Bulletin, 110896.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2024.110896

Kokubun, K., Nemoto, K., & Yamakawa, Y. (2023). 

The Association between Lifestyles (Walking/Diet) and Cultural Intelligence: A New Attempt to Apply Health Science to Cross-Cultural Research. 

Behavioral Sciences, 14(1), 28.

https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14010028

Otsuka, T., Kokubun, K., Okamoto, M., & Yamakawa, Y. (2023). 

Relationship between understanding of gender and LGBTQ and brain health with a focus on the triple network. 

medRxiv, 2023-06.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.05.23290953

Watanabe, K., Kokubun, K., & Yamakawa, Y. (2023).

Altered Grey Matter-Brain Healthcare Quotient: Interventions of Olfactory Training and Learning of Neuroplasticity

Life 13, no. 3: 667.

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/13/3/667

Nemoto, K., Kokubun, K., Ogata, Y., Koike, Y., Arai, T., & Yamakawa, Y. (2022). 

Dark Chocolate Intake May Reduce Fatigue and Mediate Cognitive Function and Gray Matter Volume in Healthy Middle-Aged Adults. 

Behavioural Neurology, 2022.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bn/2022/6021811/

Watanabe, K., Kakeda, S., Nemoto, K., Onoda, K., Yamaguchi, S., Kobayashi, S., & Yamakawa, Y. (2022). 

Effects of Obesity, Blood Pressure, and Blood Metabolic Biomarkers on Grey Matter Brain Healthcare Quotient: A Large Cohort Study of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain Screening System in Japan. 

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11(11), 2973.

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/11/2973

Fujino, M., Watanabe, K., & Yamakawa, Y. (2022). 

The Personal Trait of Spiritual Growth Is Correlated With the White Matter Integrity of the Brain. 

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.890160

Kokubun, K., Nemoto, K., & Yamakawa, Y. (2022). 

Brain conditions mediate the association between aging and happiness. 

Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-15.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07748-6

Kokubun, K., Yamakawa, Y., & Nemoto, K. (2022). 

The link between the brain volume derived index and the determinants of social performance. 

Current Psychology, 1-13.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02544-3

Watanabe, K., Kakeda, S., Nemoto, K., Onoda, K., Yamaguchi, S., Kobayashi, S., & Yamakawa, Y. (2021). 

Grey-matter brain healthcare quotient and cognitive function: A large cohort study of an MRI brain screening system in Japan. 

Cortex.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.09.009

Kokubun, K., Pineda, J. C. D., & Yamakawa, Y. (2021). 

Unhealthy lifestyles and brain condition: Examining the relations of BMI, living alone, alcohol intake, short sleep, smoking, and lack of exercise with gray matter volume. 

Plos one, 16(7), e0255285.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255285

Pineda JCD, Kokubun K, Ikaga T, Yamakawa Y. (2021). 

Housing quality and behavior affect brain health and anxiety in healthy Japanese adults. 

Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-8.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91363-4

Kokubun, K., Ogata, Y., Koike, Y., & Yamakawa, Y. (2020). 

Brain condition may mediate the association between training and work engagement. 

Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-13.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63711-3

Kokubun, K., Nemoto, K., & Yamakawa, Y. (2020). 

Fish intake may affect brain structure and improve cognitive ability in healthy people. 

Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 12, 76.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2020.00076/full

Kokubun K, Yamakawa Y, Hiraki K. (2020). 

Association between Behavioral Ambidexterity and Brain Health. 

Brain sciences, 10(3), 137.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/3/137

Kokubun, K., & Yamakawa, Y. (2019). 

Association between food patterns and gray matter volume. 

Frontiers in human neuroscience, 13, 384. 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00384/full

Park, K., Nemoto, K., Yamakawa, Y., Yamashita, F., Yoshida, K., Tamura, M., ... & Sasaki, M. (2019). 

Cerebral white matter hyperintensity as a healthcare quotient. 

Journal of clinical medicine, 8(11), 1823. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6912319/

Kokubun, K., Nemoto, K., Oka, H., Fukuda, H., Yamakawa, Y., & Watanabe, Y. (2018). 

Association of fatigue and stress with gray matter volume. 

Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 12, 154. 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00154/full

Nemoto, K., Oka, H., Fukuda, H., & Yamakawa, Y. (2017). 

MRI-based Brain Healthcare Quotients: A bridge between neural and behavioral analyses for keeping the brain healthy. 

PLoS One, 12(10), e0187137.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187137