Papers (peer-reviewed)

*Corresponding author

*Green T, Leibenluft E, Li Z, Ogawa M, Sabariego M, Contreras Y, Bellaert N, *Papini M. (2026)

Frustrative nonreward: A century of progress.

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 185:106651

Rios A, Nonomura S, Sakai Y, Kobayashi K, Kato S, Takada M, Isomura Y, Kimura M. (2025)  

Dorsomedial striatum monitors unreliability of current action policy and probes alternative one via the indirect pathway. 

Science Advances, 11(44):eadt4652.

Yan G, Amita H, Nonomura S, Inoue K, Schultz W, Takada M. (2025)  

Fluorescence detection of dopamine signaling to the primate striatum in relation to stimulus-reward associations. 

PNAS, 122(11):e2426861122

*Papini M, Green T, Contreras Y, Torres C, Ogawa M, Li Z. (2024)  

Frustrative Nonreward: Behavior, Circuits, Neurochemistry, and Disorders.

Journal of Neuroscience, 44(40):e1021242024

Ishino S, Kamada T, Sarpong G, Kitano J, Tsukasa R, Mukohira H, Sun F, Li Y, Kobayashi K, Honda N, Oishi N, *Ogawa M. (2023)

Dopamine error signal to actively cope with lack of expected reward.

Science Advances, 9(10):eade5420.  (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade5420 / PMID: 36897945)

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Ikeda K, Kaneko R Yanagawa Y, Ogawa M, Kobayashi K, Arata S, Kawakami K, Onimaru H. (2019)

Analysis of the neuronal network of the medullary respiratory center in transgenic rats expressing archaerhodopsin-3 in Phox2b-expressing cells. 

Brain Res Bull, 144:39-45.

Nonomura S, Nishizawa K, Sakai Y, Kawaguchi Y, Kato S, Uchigashima M, Watanabe M, Yamanaka K, Enomoto K, Chiken S, Sano H, Soma S, Yoshida J, Samejima K, Ogawa M, Kobayashi K, Nambu A, *Isomura Y, *Kimura M. (2018)  

Monitoring and updating of action selection for goal-directed behavior through the striatal direct and indirect pathways. 

Neuron, 99(6):1302-1314.e5    

*Ishino S, Takahashi S, *Ogawa M, Sakurai Y. (2017) 

Hippocampal-prefrontal theta phase synchrony in planning of multi-step actions based on memory retrieval. 

European Journal of Neuroscience, 45(10): 1313-1324.  

Chuong A, Miri M, Busskamp V, Matthews G, Acker L, Sørensen, A, Young A, Klapoetke N, Henninger M, Kodandaramaiah S, Ogawa M, Ramanlal S, Bandler R, Allen B, Forest  C, Chow B, Han X, Lin Y, Tye K, Roska B, Cardin J, *Boyden E. (2014) 

Noninvasive optical inhibition with a red-shifted microbial rhodopsin. 

Nature Neuroscience, 17(8): 1123-1129.  

*Ogawa M, Van der Meer M, Esber G, Cerri D, Stalnaker TA, *Schoenbaum G. (2013) 

Risk-responsive orbitofrontal neurons track acquired salience. 

Neuron, 77(2): 251-258. 

Video abstract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so-Q2GG35DQ

Stalnaker TA, Calhoon G, Ogawa M, Roesch M, *Schoenbaum G. (2012) 

Reward prediction error signaling in posterior dorsomedial striatum is action-specific. 

Journal of Neuroscience, 32(30): 10296-10305. 

Stalnaker T, Calhoon G, Ogawa M, Roesch M, *Schoenbaum G. (2010) 

Neural correlates of stimulus-response and response-outcome associations in dorsolateral versus dorsomedial striatum. 

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 4 (article 12): 1-18.

Ogawa M, Miyakawa T, Nakamura K, Kitano J, Furushima K, Kiyonari H, Nakayama R, Nakao K, Moriyoshi K, *Nakanishi S. (2007) 

Altered sensitivities to morphine and cocaine in scaffold protein tamalin knockout mice.

PNAS, 104(37): 14789-14794 

Kitano J, Nishida M, Itsukaichi Y, Minami I, Ogawa M, Hirano T, Mori Y, *Nakanishi S. (2003)

Direct interaction and functional coupling between metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 1 and voltage-sensitive Cav2.1 Ca2+ channel. 

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278(27): 25101-25108.  

Reviews and others

 *Masaaki Ogawa (2019)  Featured Researchers -Edward Boyden-  (in Japanese)

        Molecular Psychiatry (in Japanese), 19(1): 40-41.

*Masaaki Ogawa (2017)   Neural mechanisms that facilitate adaptive behavior based on acquired stimulus-outcome information.

        Brain and NERVE , 69(11): 1241-1250.

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