– Journal papers

• Li WR*, Nakano T*, Mizutani K, Matsubara T, Kawatani M, Mukai Y, Danjo T, Ito H, Aizawa H, Yamanaka A, Petersen C, Yoshimoto J, Yamashita T: Neural mechanisms underlying uninstructed orofacial movements during reward-based learning behaviors., Current Biology, 33(16), 3436-3451.e7, 2023. (*: contributed equally) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.013
• Nakano T, Takamura M, Kato T, Kano S: Editorial: The Development of Biomarkers in Psychiatry., Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13:1075993, 2022. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1075993
• Yamahashi Y, Lin YH, Mouri A, Iwanaga S, Kawashima K, Tokumoto Y, Watanabe Y, Faruk MO, Zhang X, Tsuboi D, Nakano T, Saito N, Nagai T, Yamada K, Kaibuchi K: Phosphoproteomic of the acetylcholine pathway enables discovery of the PKC-β-PIX-Rac1-PAK cascade as a stimulatory signal for aversive learning., Molecular Psychiatry, 1–14, 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41380-022-01643-2
• Nakano T, Rizwan SB, Myint DMA, Gray J, Mackay SM. Harris P, Perk CG, Hyland BI, Empson R, Tan EW, Dani KM, Reynolds JN, Wickens JR: An On-Demand Drug Delivery System for Control of Epileptiform Seizures., Pharmaceutics, 14(2): 468, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14020468
• Nakano T, Takamura M, Nishimura H, Machizawa M, Ichikawa N, Yoshino A, Okada G, Okamoto Y, Yamawaki S, Yamada M, Suhara T, Yoshimoto J: Resting-state brain activity can predict target-independent aptitude in fMRI-neurofeedback training., Neuroimage, 245: 118733, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118733 (BioRxiv, 2021)
• Regonia P, Takamura M, Nakano T, Ichikawa N, Fermin A, Okada G, Okamoto Y, Yamawaki S, Ikeda K, Yoshimoto J: Modeling Heterogeneous Brain Dynamics of Depression and Melancholia Using Energy Landscape Analysis., Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12: 2113, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.780997
• Matsubara T, Yanagida T, Kawaguchi N, Nakano T, Yoshimoto J, Sezaki M, Takizawa H, Tsunoda S, Horigane S, Ueda S Takemoto-Kimura S, Kandori H, Yamanaka A, Yamashita T: Remote control of neural function by X-ray-induced scintillation., Nature Communications, 12: 4478, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24717-1 (BioRxiv, 2019)
• Mori Y, Mouri A, Kunisawa K, Hirakawa M, Kubota H, Kosuge A, Niijima M, Hasegawa M, Kurahashi H, Murakami R, Hoshi M, Nakano T, Fujigaki S, Fujigaki H, Yamamoto Y, Nabeshima T, Saito K: Kynurenine 3-monooxygenase deficiency induces depression-like behavior via enhanced antagonism of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by kynurenic acid., Behavioural Brain Research, 405: 113191, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113191
• Cui W, Aida T, Ito H, Kobayashi K, Wada Y, Kato S, Nakano T, Isa K, Kobayashi K, Isa T, Tanaka K, Aizawa H: Dopaminergic signaling in the nucleus accumbens modulates stress-coping strategies during inescapable stress, Journal of Neuroscience., Journal of Neuroscience, 40(38): 7241-7254, 2020. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0444-20.2020
• Nakano T, Takamura M, Ichikawa N, Okada G, Okamoto Y, Yamata M, Suhara T, Yamawaki S, Yoshimoto J: Enhancing multi-center generalization of machine-learning based depression diagnosis from resting-state fMRI., Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11: 400, 2020. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00400 (MedRxiv, 2019)
• Yoshino A, Okamoto Y, Sumiya Y, Okada G, Takamura M, Ichikawa N, Nakano T, Shibasaki C, Aizawa H, Yamawaki, Y, Kawakami K, Yokoyama S, Yoshimoto J, Yamawaki, S: Importance of the habenula for avoidance learning including contextual cues in the human brain: A preliminary fMRI study, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14: 165, 2020. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00165
• Zhang X, Nagai T, Ahammad R, Kuroda K, Nakamuta D, Nakano T, Yukinawa N, Funahashi Y, Amano M, Yoshimoto J, Yamada K, Kaibuchi K: Balance between dopamine and adenosine signals regulates the PKA/Rap1 pathway in medium spiny neurons., Neurochemistry International, 122: 8-18, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2018.10.008
• Zucca S, Zucca A, Nakano T, Aoki S, Wickens J: Pauses in cholinergic interneuron firing exert an inhibitory control on striatal output in vivo., eLife, 7: e32510, 2018. DOI: 10.7554/elife.32510
• Nakano T, Mackay S, Tan E, Dani K, Wickens J: Interfacing with neural activity via femtosecond laser stimulation of drug encapsulating liposomal nanostructures., eNeuro 3(6): 107, 2016. DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0107-16.2016
• Nagai T, Nakamuta S, Kuroda K, Nakauchi S, Nishioka T, Takano T, Zhang X, Tsuboi D, Funahashi Y, Nakano T, Yoshimoto J, Kobayashi K, Uchigashima M, Watanabe M, Miura M, Nishi A, Kobayashi K, Yamada K, Amano M, Kaibuchi K: Phospho-proteomics of the dopamine pathway enables discovery of Rap1 activation as a reward signal in vivo., Neuron, 89(3): 550-565, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.019
• Nakano T, Otsuka M, Yoshimoto J, Doya K: A spiking neural network model of model-free reinforcement learning with high-dimensional sensory input and perceptual ambiguity., PLoS ONE, 10(3): e0115620, 2015. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115620
• Nakano T, Chin C, Myint D, Tan E, Hale P, Mariserala B, Reynolds J, Wickens J, Dani K: Mimicking subsecond neurotransmitter dynamics with femtosecond laser stimulated nanosystems., Scientific Reports, 5: 5398, 2014. DOI: 10.1038/srep05398
• Nakano T, Yoshimoto J, Doya K: A model-based prediction of the calcium responses in the striatal synaptic spines depending on the timing of cortical and dopaminergic inputs and post-synaptic spikes. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 7: 119, 2013. DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00119
• Nakano T, Doi T, Yoshimoto J, Doya K: A kinetic model of dopamine- and calcium-dependent striatal synaptic plasticity., PLoS Computational Biology, 6(2): e1000670, 2010. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000670

– Peer-reviewed conference papers

• Yoshimoto J, Ozaki J, Mizutani K, Nakano T, Ikeda K, Yamashita T: Statistical analysis on characteristic whisking movement observed in reward anticipation and acquisition, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA) 2019, Lanzhou, China, Nov 18-21, 2019. (Oral) DOI: 10.1109/APSIPAASC47483.2019.9023135
• Nakano T, Chin C, Myint D, Tan E, Hale P, Reynolds J, Wickens J, Dani K: Femtosecond laser stimulated nanosystems for neuroscience applications, CLEO: 2014, San Jose, US, 2014. (Oral) DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_AT.2014.ATu2P.6
• Nakano T, Yoshimoto J, Wickens J, Doya K: Calcium Responses Model in Striatum Dependent on Timed Input Sources. Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2009: 659-670, Springer, 2009. (Oral) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04274-4_26

– Book (Chapters)

• Nakano T, Kato T, Takamura M, Kano S: The development of biomarkers in psychiatry., Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA, 2022. ISBN 978-2-83251-057-5 DOI: 10.3389/978-2-83251-057-5
• Nakano T, Rizwan SB, Myint DMA, Gray J, Mackay SM. Harris P, Perk CG, Hyland BI, Empson R, Tan EW, Dani KM, Reynolds JN, Wickens JR: An On-Demand Drug Delivery System for Control of Epileptiform Seizures. In Sousa F (Ed.), Brain-Targeted Drug Delivery: 123-140, Basel, MDPI, 2022. ISBN 978-3-0365-5282-8 DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-5281-1
• Nakano T, Yoshimoto J, Wickens J, Doya K: Calcium Responses Model in Striatum Dependent on Timed Input Sources. In Alippi C, Polycarpou M, Panayiotou C, Ellinas G (Ed.), Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2009 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5768): 659-670, Berlin, Springer, 2009. ISBN:‎ 978-3642042737