Akira Sawa
Active 1971–2025
- 157
- Papers
- 25,775
- Citations
- 89
- h-index
- 150
- i10-index
Citations
Citation sources
Countries
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University1.3%
- Harvard University1.2%
- Johns Hopkins Medicine1%
- King's College London0.7%
- Massachusetts General Hospital0.7%
- Inserm0.5%
- Other94.6%
Fields
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology34.6%
- Neuroscience31.1%
- Medicine26.3%
- Psychology2.3%
- Immunology and Microbiology1.4%
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.1%
- Other3.2%
Topics
- Tryptophan and brain disorders5.1%
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research3.5%
- Schizophrenia research and treatment3.1%
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms2.5%
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies2.4%
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology2.1%
- Other81.3%
Coauthors
- Koko Ishizuka25
- Atsushi Kamiya23
- Solomon H. Snyder22
- Kun Yang20
- Christopher A. Ross18
- Jennifer M. Coughlin18
- Nicola G. Cascella16
- Hanna Jaaro-Peled13
- Thomas W. Sedlak13
- David J. Schretlen11
- Frederick C. Nucifora11
- Minae Niwa10
- Saurav Seshadri10
- Mikhail V. Pletnikov9
- Lindsay N. Hayes8
- Toshifumi Tomoda8
- Ho Namkung7
- Martin G. Pomper7
- Matthew B. Cascio7
- Nicholas J. Brandon7
- Peter B. Barker7
- Susumu Mori7
- Akiko Hayashi‐Takagi6
- Andréia V. Faria6
All papers
- Improving polygenic prediction in ancestrally diverse populations
Authors: Yunfeng Ruan, Kuang Lin, Yen‐Chen Anne Feng, Chia‐Yen Chen, Max Lam, Zhenglin Guo, Stanley Global Asia Initiatives, Yong Min Ahn, Kazufumi Akiyama, Makoto Arai, Ji Hyun Baek, Wei J. Chen, Young‐Chul Chung, Gang Feng, Kumiko Fujii, Stephen J. Glatt, Kyooseob Ha, Kotaro Hattori, Teruhiko Higuchi, Akitoyo Hishimoto, Kyung Sue Hong, Yasue Horiuchi, Hai‐Gwo Hwu, Masashi Ikeda, Sayuri Ishiwata, Masanari Itokawa, Nakao Iwata, Eun‐Jeong Joo, René S. Kahn, Sung‐Wan Kim, Se Joo Kim, Se Hyun Kim, Makoto Kinoshita, Hiroshi Kunugi, Agung Kusumawardhani, Jimmy Lee, Byung Dae Lee, Heon‐Jeong Lee, Jianjun Liu, Ruize Liu, Xiancang Ma, Woojae Myung, Shusuke Numata, Tetsuro Ohmori, Ikuo Otsuka, Yuji Ozeki, Sibylle G. Schwab, Wenzhao Shi, Kazutaka Shimoda, Kang Sim, Ichiro Sora, Jinsong Tang, Tomoko Toyota, Ming T. Tsuang, Dieter B. Wildenauer, Hong‐Hee Won, Takeo Yoshikawa, Alice X. Zheng, Feng Zhu, Lin He, Akira Sawa, Alicia R. Martin, Shengying Qin, Hailiang Huang, Tian Ge - Nature Genetics 2022 cited by 689
- Schizophrenia
Authors: Michael J. Owen, Akira Sawa, Preben Bo Mortensen - The Lancet 2016 cited by 1,846
- Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap
Authors: Peter J. Uhlhaas, Christopher G. Davey, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Jai Shah, John Torous, Nicholas B. Allen, Shelli Avenevoli, Tolulope Bella‐Awusah, Andrew M. Chanen, Eric Chen, Christoph U. Correll, Kim Q., Helen L. Fisher, Sophia Frangou, Ian B. Hickie, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Kerstin Konrad, Francis S. Lee, Cindy H. Liu, Beatriz Luna, Patrick D. McGorry, Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg, Merete Nordentoft, Döst Öngür, George Patton, Tomáš Paus, Ulrich Reininghaus, Akira Sawa, Michael Schoenbaum, Günter Schumann, Vinod H. Srihari, Ezra Susser, Swapna Verma, Tsung‐Ung W. Woo, Lawrence H. Yang, Alison R. Yung, Stephen J. Wood - Molecular Psychiatry 2023 cited by 288
- Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA
Authors: Joaquim Raduà, Eduard Vieta, Russell T. Shinohara, Peter Kochunov, Yann Quidé, Melissa J. Green, Cynthia Shannon Weickert, Thomas W. Weickert, Jason Bruggemann, Tilo Kircher, Igor Nenadić, Murray J. Cairns, Marc L. Seal, Ulrich Schall, Frans Henskens, Janice M. Fullerton, Bryan Mowry, Christos Pantelis, Rhoshel Lenroot, Vanessa Cropley, Carmel M. Loughland, Rodney J. Scott, Daniel H. Wolf, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Yunlong Tan, Kang Sim, Fabrizio Piras, Gianfranco Spalletta, Nerisa Banaj, Edith Pomarol‐Clotet, Aleix Solanes, Anton Albajes‐Eizagirre, Erick J. Canales‐Rodríguez, Salvador Sarró, Annabella Di Giorgio, Alessandro Bertolino, Michael Stäblein, Viola Oertel, Christian Knöchel, Stefan Borgwardt, Stefan S. du Plessis, Je‐Yeon Yun, Jun Soo Kwon, Udo Dannlowski, Tim Hahn, Dominik Grotegerd, Clara Alloza, Celso Arango, Joost Janssen, Covadonga M. Díaz‐Caneja, Wenhao Jiang, Vince D. Calhoun, Stefan Ehrlich, Kun Yang, Nicola G. Cascella, Yoichiro Takayanagi, Akira Sawa, A. S. Tomyshev, И. С. Лебедева, В. Г. Каледа, Matthias Kirschner, Cyril Höschl, David Tomeček, Antonín Škoch, Thérèse van Amelsvoort, Geor Bakker, Anthony James, Adrian Preda, Andrea Weideman, Dan J. Stein, Fleur M. Howells, Anne Uhlmann, Henk Temmingh, Carlos López‐Jaramillo, Ana M. Díaz‐Zuluaga, Lydia Fortea, Eloy Martínez‐Heras, Elisabeth Solana, Sara Llufriú, Neda Jahanshad, Paul M. Thompson, Jessica A. Turner, Theo G.M. van Erp, David C. Glahn, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Elliot Hong, Axel Krug, Vaughan J. Carr, Paul A. Tooney, Gavin Cooper, Paul E. Rasser, Patricia T. Michie, Stanley V. Catts, Raquel E. Gur, Ruben C. Gur, Fude Yang, Fengmei Fan, Jingxu Chen, Hua Guo, Shuping Tan and 11 more - NeuroImage 2020 cited by 274
- Treatment resistant schizophrenia: Clinical, biological, and therapeutic perspectives
Authors: Frederick C. Nucifora, Edgar Woznica, Brian J. Lee, Nicola G. Cascella, Akira Sawa - Neurobiology of Disease 2018 cited by 285
- Prenatal immune stress blunts microglia reactivity, impairing neurocircuitry
Authors: Lindsay N. Hayes, Kyongman An, Elisa Carloni, Fangze Li, Elizabeth Vincent, Chloë Trippaers, Manish Paranjpe, Gül Dölen, Loyal A. Goff, Adriana Ramos, Shin‐ichi Kano, Akira Sawa - Nature 2022 cited by 133
- The Insula: An Underestimated Brain Area in Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Neurology
Authors: Ho Namkung, Sun-Hong Kim, Akira Sawa - Trends in Neurosciences 2017 cited by 466
- The diverse functions of GAPDH: Views from different subcellular compartments
Authors: Carlos A. Tristan, Neelam Shahani, Thomas W. Sedlak, Akira Sawa - Cellular Signalling 2010 cited by 655
- Altering the course of schizophrenia: progress and perspectives
Authors: Mark J. Millan, Annie Andrieux, George Bartzokis, Kristin S. Cadenhead, Paola Dazzan, Paolo Fusar‐Poli, Jürgen Gallinat, Jay N. Giedd, Dennis R. Grayson, Markus Heinrichs, René S. Kahn, Marie‐Odile Krebs, Marion Leboyer, David A. Lewis, Òscar Marín, Philippe Marin, Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg, Patrick D. McGorry, Philip McGuire, Michael J. Owen, Paul H. Patterson, Akira Sawa, Michael Spedding, Peter J. Uhlhaas, Flora M. Vaccarino, Claes Wahlestedt, Daniel M. Weinberger - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 2016 cited by 513
- S-nitrosylated GAPDH initiates apoptotic cell death by nuclear translocation following Siah1 binding
Authors: Makoto R. Hara, Nishant Agrawal, Sangwon F. Kim, Matthew B. Cascio, Masahiro Fujimuro, Yuji Ozeki, Masaaki Takahashi, Jaime H. Cheah, Stephanie Tankou, Lynda D. Hester, Christopher D. Ferris, S. Diane Hayward, Solomon H. Snyder, Akira Sawa - Nature Cell Biology 2005 cited by 1,065
- Variability and magnitude of brain glutamate levels in schizophrenia: a meta and mega-analysis
Authors: Kate Merritt, Robert A. McCutcheon, André Alemán, Sarah A. Ashley, Katherine Beck, Wolfgang Block, Oswald Bloemen, Faith Borgan, Christiana Boules, Juan Bustillo, Arístides A. Capizzano, Jennifer M. Coughlin, Anthony S. David, Camilo de la Fuente‐Sandoval, Arsime Demjaha, Kara Dempster, Kim Q., Fei Du, Peter Falkai, Beata Galińska-Skok, Jürgen Gallinat, Charles Gasparovic, Cedric E. Ginestet, Naoki Gotō, Ariel Graff‐Guerrero, Beng‐Choon Ho, Oliver Howes, Sameer Jauhar, Peter Jeon, Tadafumi Kato, Charles A. Kaufmann, Lawrence S. Kegeles, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Sang-Young Kim, B. King, Hiroshi Kunugi, John Lauriello, Pablo León-Ortíz, Edith J. Liemburg, Meghan McIlwain, Gemma Modinos, Elias Mouchlianitis, Jun Nakamura, Igor Nenadić, Döst Öngür, Miho Ota, Lena Palaniyappan, Christos Pantelis, Tulsi Patel, Eric Plitman, Sotirios Posporelis, Scot E. Purdon, Jürgen R. Reichenbach, Perry F. Renshaw, Francisco Reyes-Madrigal, Bruce R. Russell, Akira Sawa, Martin Schaefer, Dikoma C. Shungu, Stefan Smesny, Jeffrey A. Stanley, James Stone, Agata Szulc, Reggie Taylor, Katharine N. Thakkar, Jean Théberge, Philip G. Tibbo, Thérèse van Amelsvoort, Jerzy Walecki, Peter Williamson, Stephen J. Wood, Lijing Xin, Hidenori Yamasue, Philip McGuire, Alice Egerton, the 1H-MRS in Schizophrenia Investigators, Camilo de la Fuente-Sandoval, Thérèse van Amelsvoort, Philip K. McGuire - Molecular Psychiatry 2023 cited by 75
- Increased Levels of Glutamate in Brains from Patients with Mood Disorders
Authors: Kenji Hashimoto, Akira Sawa, Masaomi Iyo - Biological Psychiatry 2007 cited by 605
- Nitric oxide-induced nuclear GAPDH activates p300/CBP and mediates apoptosis
Authors: Nilkantha Sen, Makoto R. Hara, Michael D. Kornberg, Matthew B. Cascio, Byoung-Il Bae, Neelam Shahani, Bobby Thomas, Ted M. Dawson, Valina L. Dawson, Solomon H. Snyder, Akira Sawa - Nature Cell Biology 2008 cited by 404
- Identifying canonical and replicable multi‐scale intrinsic connectivity networks in 100k+ resting‐state fMRI datasets
Authors: Armin Iraji, Zening Fu, Ashkan Faghiri, Marlena Duda, Jun Chen, Srinivas Rachakonda, Thomas P. DeRamus, Peter Kochunov, Bhim M. Adhikari, Ayşenil Belger, Judith M. Ford, Daniel H. Mathalon, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Steven G. Potkin, Adrian Preda, Jessica A. Turner, Theo G.M. van Erp, Juan Bustillo, Kun Yang, K Ishizuka, Andréia V. Faria, Akira Sawa, Kent E. Hutchison, Elizabeth Osuch, Jean Théberge, Chris Abbott, Bryon A. Mueller, D. Zhi, Chuanjun Zhuo, Sha Liu, Yong Xu, Muhammad Salman, Jingyu Liu, Yuhui Du, Jing Sui (Beijing Normal University), my correct affiliation is beijing normal university, not Qingdao University of Science and Technology, please correct the current affiliation. Thank you, Tülay Adalı, Vince D. Calhoun - Human Brain Mapping 2023 cited by 71
- Influence of poly(I:C) variability on thermoregulation, immune responses and pregnancy outcomes in mouse models of maternal immune activation
Authors: Flavia S. Mueller, Juliet Richetto, Lindsay N. Hayes, Alice Zambon, Daniela D. Pollak, Akira Sawa, Urs Meyer, Ulrike Weber‐Stadlbauer - Brain Behavior and Immunity 2019 cited by 138
- KCTD13 is a major driver of mirrored neuroanatomical phenotypes of the 16p11.2 copy number variant
Authors: Christelle Golzio, Jason R. Willer, Michael E. Talkowski, Edwin C. Oh, Yu Taniguchi, Sébastien Jacquemont, Alexandre Reymond, Mei Sun, Akira Sawa, James F. Gusella, Atsushi Kamiya, J. Beckmann, Nicholas Katsanis - Nature 2012 cited by 438
- Neuroinflammation and brain atrophy in former NFL players: An in vivo multimodal imaging pilot study
Authors: Jennifer M. Coughlin, Yuchuan Wang, Cynthia A. Munro, Shuangchao Ma, Yue Chen, Shaojie Chen, Raag D. Airan, Pearl K. Kim, Ashley V. Adams, Cinthya Garcia, Cecilia Higgs, Haris I. Sair, Akira Sawa, Gwenn S. Smith, Constantine G. Lyketsos, Brian Caffo, Michael Kassiou, Tomás R. Guilarte, Martin G. Pomper - Neurobiology of Disease 2014 cited by 247
- In vivo markers of inflammatory response in recent-onset schizophrenia: a combined study using [11C]DPA-713 PET and analysis of CSF and plasma
Authors: Jennifer M. Coughlin, Yuchuan Wang, Emily B. Ambinder, Rebecca Ward, Il Minn, Melin Vranešić, P K Kim, Candice N. Ford, Cecilia Higgs, Lindsay N. Hayes, David J. Schretlen, Robert F. Dannals, Michael Kassiou, Akira Sawa, Martin G. Pomper - Translational Psychiatry 2016 cited by 164
- Association of Age, Antipsychotic Medication, and Symptom Severity in Schizophrenia With Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Brain Glutamate Level
Authors: Kate Merritt, Philip McGuire, Alice Egerton, 1H-MRS in Schizophrenia Investigators, André Alemán, Wolfgang Block, Oswald Bloemen, Faith Borgan, Juan Bustillo, Arístides A. Capizzano, Jennifer M. Coughlin, Camilo de la Fuente‐Sandoval, Arsime Demjaha, Kara Dempster, Kim Q., Fei Du, Peter Falkai, Beata Galińska-Skok, Jürgen Gallinat, Charles Gasparovic, Cedric E. Ginestet, Naoki Gotō, Ariel Graff‐Guerrero, Beng‐Choon Ho, Oliver Howes, Sameer Jauhar, Peter Jeon, Tadafumi Kato, Charles A. Kaufmann, Lawrence S. Kegeles, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Sang-Young Kim, Hiroshi Kunugi, John Lauriello, Edith J. Liemburg, Meghan McIlwain, Gemma Modinos, Elias Mouchlianitis, Jun Nakamura, Igor Nenadić, Döst Öngür, Miho Ota, Lena Palaniyappan, Christos Pantelis, Eric Plitman, Sotirios Posporelis, Scot E. Purdon, Jürgen R. Reichenbach, Perry F. Renshaw, Bruce R. Russell, Akira Sawa, Martin Schaefer, Dikoma C. Shungu, Stefan Smesny, Jeffrey A. Stanley, James Stone, Agata Szulc, Reggie Taylor, Katy Thakkar, Jean Théberge, Philip G. Tibbo, Thérèse van Amelsvoort, Jerzy Walecki, Peter Williamson, Stephen J. Wood, Lijing Xin, Hidenori Yamasue - JAMA Psychiatry 2021 cited by 146
- The miR-124-AMPAR pathway connects polygenic risks with behavioral changes shared between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Authors: Ho Namkung, Hiroshi Yukitake, Daisuke Fukudome, Brian J. Lee, Mengnan Tian, Gianluca Ursini, Atsushi Saito, Shravika Lam, Suvarnambiga Kannan, Rupali Srivastava, Minae Niwa, Kamal Sharma, Peter P. Zandi, Hanna Jaaro-Peled, Koko Ishizuka, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Richard L. Huganir, Akira Sawa - Neuron 2022 cited by 45
- Clozapine as a Model for Antipsychotic Development
Authors: Frederick C. Nucifora, Marina Mihaljević, Brian J. Lee, Akira Sawa - Neurotherapeutics 2017 cited by 175
- Improving Polygenic Prediction in Ancestrally Diverse Populations
Authors: Yunfeng Ruan, Kuang Lin, Yen‐Chen Anne Feng, Chia‐Yen Chen, Max Lam, Zhenglin Guo, Stanley Global Asia Initiatives, Lin He, Akira Sawa, Alicia R. Martin, Shengying Qin, Hailiang Huang, Tian Ge - medRxiv 2021 cited by 107
- Reconceptualization of translocator protein as a biomarker of neuroinflammation in psychiatry
Authors: Tina Notter, Jennifer M. Coughlin, Akira Sawa, Urs Meyer - Molecular Psychiatry 2017 cited by 148
- Neuronal Autophagy in Synaptic Functions and Psychiatric Disorders
Authors: Toshifumi Tomoda, Kun Yang, Akira Sawa - Biological Psychiatry 2019 cited by 71
