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   update:Sep.3, 2025
Ichiro Kita, Ph.D.

Professor

Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory

Research Field: Exercise Physiology & Neuroscience

                  e-mail: kita-ichiro at tmu.ac.jp

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 Our paper by Mizuhara et al. has been accepted for publication in Physiology & Behavior.
 (2 Sep. 2025)
     Mizuhara R, Amemiya S, Maruyama T, Kita I
     Social Familiarity-Dependent Modulation of Emotional Responses to Stressed Conspecifics
     and the Role of Oxytocin Receptors in Rats

 Our paper by Sugimoto et al. has been accepted for publication in Behavioural Brain Research.
 (30 June 2025)
     Sugimoto S, Yokoshi M, Maruyama T, Amemiya S, Kita I
     Effects of acute treadmill running following administration of lipopolysaccharide on subsequent changes
     in microglial activation and depressive-like behavior in rats

Past Info  

  Main Theme ★

     *** Behavioral Neuroscience ***

 We have been interested in the following research topics:

  ・The neural basis for the empathy-enhancing effect of exercise

  ・The neural mechanisms underlying the antidepressant effects of exercise

★ Books 

Award : The Society for Respiratory Control, Young Investigator Awards (1997.10) 

Title:The involvements of Nitric Oxide in stereotyped yawning responses induced by chemical stimulation of paraventricular nucleus in rats Kita I、Oguri M, Sato-Suzuki I, Arita H)