Hiroyuki Hioki

Department of Neuroanatomy, Graduate School of Medicine

Juntendo University

Hiroyuki Hioki

Hiroyuki Hioki is a Professor in the Department of Neuroanatomy at Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine. He received M.D. from Faculty of Medicine Kyoto University (2003), and Ph.D. in neuroscience from Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University (2008). He has an interest in the neuronal circuitry in the central nervous system, especially in the neocortical microcircuit. Based on what principle, does the cerebral neocortex realize higher-order functions such as cognition, thinking, memory, and emotion? To unlock the mechanisms of the functions, it is absolutely essential to understand the neural network, which forms the structural basis of the brain. This is because “without structure there is no function”. He aims to unravel the grand design of the central nervous system, especially the neocortex, while developing innovative tools to facilitate morphological analysis.

Publications

A Tissue Clearing Method for Neuronal Imaging from Mesoscopic to Microscopic Scales

1Department of Neuroanatomy, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, 2Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, 3Advanced Research Institute for Health Sciences, Juntendo University, 4Department of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 5Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 6Department of Oral Anatomy and Neurobiology, Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, 7Department of Multi-Scale Brain Structure Imaging, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine

JoVE 63941

 Neuroscience