Neuroscience and Neurochemistry

Takaki Shimura worked in the field of Biomedical Engineering at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., developing and researching ultrasound imaging, MRI, bio-magnetics measurement by SQUID, X-ray imaging by flat panel detector, remote health care system by TV telephone and so on from 1969 to 2000. He worked at Tokai University as a Professor, researching mainly BME on dementia, such as the prefrontal lobe imaging using infrared spectroscopy and neuropsychological tests for early stage of dementia from 2000 to 2007. He founds daycare service houses at Sosei Ltd to apply his inventions of the brain rehabilitation to the elderly by himself since 2009. He is the Engineering Fellow of the Japan Society of Ultrasound in Medicine, the President of Japan Society for Early Stage of Dementia formerly and the chairman of BME on Dementia Group of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering.