Publications by authors named "Syuntaro Itagaki"
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- The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011 may have negatively impacted the mental health of children in the affected regions.
- A study involving 15,274 children showed that 25% of 4-6 year-olds, 22% of 7-12 year-olds, and 16.3% of 13-15 year-olds scored above the clinical cutoff on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), which is much higher than the typical rate of 9.5%.
- The research also looked for a relationship between higher SDQ scores and environmental radiation levels in Fukushima, but found no significant correlation.
Mismatch negativity (MMN) is an event-related potential that is elicited by deviant sounds that are presented along with frequent sounds in the absence of attention. Auditory MMN is generated by the comparison process between sensory memory trace of a frequent auditory event and a deviant event. It is well known that frequent sounds are encoded in memory trace and processed as a single unit within 160-170 ms.
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