PROFILE

FUJIWARA Toshiyuki, M.D., Ph.D.


Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

Short Biography

1993
M.D. Fukui Medical School
1993-1996
Resident, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine
1996-1997
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, National Murayama Hospital
1997-1999
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University Tsukigase Rehabilitation Center
2000-2002
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Saitama General Rehabilitation Center
2002
Ph. D. titled from Keio University
2002-2003
Research Fellow Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
2003-2004
Chairman, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, National Higashisaitama Hospital
2005-2014
Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine
2014-2016
Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Tokai University
2017-Present
Professor and Chairman, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine
 

Keywords

  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Clinical Physiology
  • Noninvasive brain and nerve stimulation
  • Functional recovery
  • Neural plasticity

Main Research Topics and Interests

  • Hybrid Assistive Neuromuscular Dynamic Stimulation (HANDS) therapy
  • Brain Machine Interface
  • Transcutaneous spinal stimulation
  • Transcranial Magnetic stimulation
  • Clinical Neurophysiology

Publications (in English)

  • Original Articles: 69
  • h-index: 24 (Scopus)
  • Sum of Times Cited: 1,363 (Scopus)

Recent Main Publications

  • Ishiwatari M, Honaga K, Tanuma A, Takakura T, Hatori K, Kurosu A, Fujiwara T. Trunk impairment as a predictor of activities of daily living in acute stroke. Front Neurol 12: 665592, 2021
  • Fujiwara T: Mini-review article: the role of spinal reciprocal inhibition and intracortical inhibition in functional recovery from stroke. Exp Brain Res: 238: 1701-1705, 2020
  • Yamaguchi T, Fujiwara T, Lin SC, Takahashi Y, Hatori K, Liu M, Huang YZ: Priming with intermittent theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation promotes spinal plasticity induced by peripheral patterned electrical stimulation. Frontiers in Neuroscience : 10.3389201800508, 2018.
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Other Specific Comments

Board Certification

  • Board Certification of Japanese society of Rehabilitation Medicine, March, 1999
  • Board Certification of Clinical Neurophysiology (EMG & Nerve conduction study)

Societies

  • The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • The Japan Medical Society of Paraplegia
  • Japanese Society of Prothetics and Orthotics
  • The Japan Neuroscience Society
  • Society of Biomechanism Japan
  • Japanese Stroke Society
  • American Society for Neurorehabilitation
  • The World Federation for Neurorehabilitation
  • Society for Neuroscience

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