Yasuo Terao

Yasuo Terao, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Medical Physiology, Kyorin University. After graduating from the faculty of Medicine in 1989, he received the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, in 1998. After being trained in internal medicine, he has majored in neurology and is a Board-Certified Neurologist. From 1999 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Physiology, Umeå University, Sweden, with Prof. Roland S. Johansson. He became a Lecturer in the Department of Neurology, The University of Tokyo, in 2012; and a Professor of physiology of the Department of Medical Physiology, Kyorin University, in 2016. His research has focused on saccade recording in neurological patients, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and physiological mechanisms of deep brain stimulation. He serves as an Editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Frontiers in Psychiatry.