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Dr. Makiko Yamada is a post-doctoral fellow in the SCN Lab. She studied psychology at McGill University in Canada. Then in 2006 she was awarded a Ph.D. (Neuropsychology) from Kyoto University in Japan. Dr. Yamada has been investigating, for several years, deficits in emotion processing and social cognition in patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders. In the SCN Lab, Dr. Yamada conducts research on how empathic neural responses are modulated by contextual factors in healthy individuals as well as in psychiatric patients.
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
e-mail: myamada@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702 4661



Curriculum vitae 
1999:  B.A. degree (Psychology) from McGill University, Canada. 
2006: Ph.D. degree (Neuropsychology) from Kyoto University, Japan. 

Research and Professional Experiences:
2006 (October)-present: Post-doctoral fellow in the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Professor Jean Decety.
 
2006-2009: JSPS Research Fellow (PD) at the Neuropsychiatry Department of the Graduate school of Medicine, Kyoto University. 

2005-2006/September: Part-time lecturer in Clinical Neurology and in Neuropsychology at Osaka Isen Medical College. 

2004-2005: Teaching assistant, Kyoto University. 

2003-2004: Research assistant, Kyoto University. 

2002-2003: Teaching assistant, Kyoto University. 

Technical skills:
- Clinical neuropsychology
- Human neuroanatomy
- Lesion studies
- Voxel-based morphometry

Main Research Interests:
- Social cognition
- Psychopathology
- Cognitive neuropsychology
- Emotion processing
- Emotion regulation
- Empathy
- Priming
- Social neuroscience

 

Publications: 

Fujiwara, H., Hirao, K., Namiki, C., Yamada, M., Fukuyama, H., Hayashi, T., and Murai, T. (2007). Anterior cingulate pathology and Social cognition in schizophrenia: a gray, white matter and sulcal morphometric study. NeuroImage, 36, 1236-1245.

Namiki, C., Yamada, M., Yoshida, H., Hanakawa, T., Fukuyama, H., and
Murai, T. (in press). High resolution MRI revealed small orbitofrontal lesion
responsible for behavioral change after traumatic brain injury. Brain
Injury.

Namiki, C., Hirao, K., Yamada, M., Hanakawa, T., Fukuyama, H., Hayashi,
T., and Murai, T. (in press). Impaired facial emotion recognition and reduced
amygdala volume in schizophrenia. Psychiatric Research: Neuroimaging.

Yamada, M., Hirao, K., Namiki, C., Hanakawa, T., Fukuyama, H., Hayashi,
T., and Murai, T. (2007). Social cognition and frontal lobe pathology in
schizophrenia: a voxel-based morphometric study. NeuroImage, 35, 262-298.

Ohigashi, Y., Yamada, M., Mikuni, N. (2006). Development of social
comunication and its disorder. Brain Medical, 18, 237-242.

Yamada, M., Murai, T., Sato, W., Namiki, C., Miyamoto, T., and Ohigashi, Y. (2005). Emotion recognition from facial expressions in a temporal lobe epileptic patient with ictal fear. Neuropsychologia, 41, 434-441. 

Fukui, H., Namiki, C., Yamada, M., and Murai, T. (2005). Antisocial personality disorder/Psychopathy: Pathology and Emotion in Personality. Japanese Journal of Psychiatric Treatment, 20, 363-371. 

Yamada, M., Fukao, K., Ohigashi, Y., and Murai, T. (2005). Ictal fear and emotion recognition: a syndrome of amygdala hypersensitivity. Japanese Journal of Psychiatric Treatment, 20, 247-254. 

Fukao, K., Murai, T., Yamada, M., Sengoku, A., and Kusumi, T. (2005). déjà vu and jamais vu as ictal symptoms: qualitative comparison with those occurring in normal subjects using a questionnaire. Epilepsia, 46, 28-29. 

Ohigashi, Y., Den, Y., Tsuruya, N., and Yamada, M. (2004). Neuropsyhological aspects of Asperger syndrome. Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology, 20, 108-124. 

Murai, T., and Yamada, M. (2003). Labirinth test. In: Dementia I. Tokyo: Japanese Journal of Clinical Medicine, 61, 360-363. 

Niki, C., Yamada, M., Ohigashi, Y. (2003). Semantic memory disorder for objects. Cognitive Rehabilitation 2002, 78-89. 

Ohigashi, Y., and Yamada, M. (2003). Reduplicative paramnesia. Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 32, 1507-1512. 

Yamada, M., Murai, T., and Ohigashi, Y. (2003). Reduplicative paramnesia in a patient with a right fronto-temporal lesion. Psychogeriatrics, 3, 127-131. 

Yamada, M., Yoshida, Y., Niki, C., Tanemura, R., and Ohigashi, Y. (2003). Relearning of abstract semantics in patients with left temporal lobe lesions. Cognitive Rehabilitation 2003, 131-138. 

Yamada, M., Moritani, T., and Ohigashi, Y. (2002). Neural correlates of cardiac vagal tone and the conscious emotional experience: nine case reports. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 45, 161. 


Under review

Yamada, M., Ohigashi, Y., and Murai, M. Impulsive aggression and the
orbitofrontal cortex. Cortex.


In preparation

Yamada, M., Ueda, K., Namiki, C., Hirao, K., Hayashi, T., Ohigashi, Y., and Murai, T. Social cognition in schizophrenia: comparison with patients with focal frontal lesions. 

Ueda, K., Yamada, M., Yoshizumi, M., and Murai, T. Heterogeneity of apathy and fronto-subcortical injury.