NAME
Yoshio Nakamura, Ph.D.

POSITION TITLE
Assistant Research Professor

EDUCATION/TRAINING

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, San Diego
UC Berkeley (89-90) and UW-Madison (90-92)

B.A.
Ph.D.
Postdoc

1983
1989
1989-1992

Psychology
Psychology
Emotion Theory & Research

Positions

1983 - 1989          Research Associate, Center for Human Information Processing, UCSD, CA

1989 - 1990          Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, Stanford University, CA

1990 - 1992          Postdoctoral Fellow in an NIMH-supported Training Program, UW-Madison, WI

1993 - 1996          Assistant Researcher, Pain Research Group, Dept. of Neurology, UW-Madison, WI

1997 - 1998          Research Scientist, Talaria, Inc., Seattle, WA

1997 – 2001          Research Associate, Dept. of Anesthesiology, UW School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

2001 – present Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology, Univ. of Utah School of Medicine, UT

Honors

1983     College Honors from Cowell College, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

1989     National Research Service Award from National Institute of Mental Health

Publications

Mandler, G., Nakamura, Y., & Shebo-Van Zandt, BJ. (1987). Nonspecific effects of exposure on stimuli that cannot be recognized. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 13, 646-648.

Mandler, G. & Nakamura, Y. (1987). Aspects of consciousness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 13, 299-313.

Nakamura, Y. (1995). Pain, consciousness, and memory under anesthesia. American Pain Society Bulletin, 5(3), 9-13, 24.

Howland, E.W., Nakamura, Y., Cleeland, C.S., Suthers, L.S., Nichols, S.N., & Zelman, D.C. (1995). Effects of hypnosis on subjective pain ratings and evoked potential amplitudes. Analgesia, 1(3), 171-184

Serlin, R.C., Mendoza, T.R., Nakamura, Y., Edwards, K.R., & Cleeland, C.S. (1995). When is cancer pain mild, moderate, or severe? Grading pain severity by its interference with function. Pain, 61(2), 277-284.

Cleeland, C.S., Nakamura, Y., Howland, E.W., Morgan, N.R., Edwards, K.R., & Backonja, M. (1996). Effects of oral morphine on cold pressor and neuropsychological performance. Neuropsychopharmacology, 15(3), 252-262.

Cleeland, C.S., Nakamura, Y., Mendoza, T.R., Edwards, K.R., Douglas, J., & Serlin, R.C. (1996). Dimensions of the impact of cancer pain in a four country sample: New information from multidimensional scaling. Pain, 67(2&3), 267-273.

Chapman, C.R. & Nakamura, Y. (1998). Hypnotic analgesia: A constructivist framework. Int’l J Clin Exp Hypn XLVI(1) Hypnosis in the relief of pain – Part II:6-27.

Uki, J, Mnedoza, T., Cleeland, C.S., Nakamura, Y., & Takeda, F. (1998). A brief cancer pain assessment tool in Japanese: the utility of the Japanese Brief Pain Inventory—BPI-J. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 16(6), 364-73.

Chapman, C.R., & Nakamura, Y. (1999). Pain and consciousness: a constructivist approach. Pain Forum 8(3):113-123.

Chapman, C.R., & Nakamura, Y. (1999). A passion of the soul: an introduction to pain for consciousness researchers. Consciousness and Cognition, 8. 391-422.

Chapman, C.R., Nakamura, Y., & Flores, L.Y. (1999). Chronic pain and consciousness: A constructivist perspective, in Gatchel, R.J. and Turk, D.C. (Eds.): Psychosocial Factors in Pain: Evolutions and Revolutions. New York: The Guilford Press, New York. (pp. 35-55)

Chapman, C.R., Nakamura, Y., & Flores, L.Y. (2000). How we hurt: a constructivist framework for understanding individual differences in pain, in Kunzendorf, R.G., and Wallace, B. (Eds.): Individual Differences in Conscious Experience, John Benjamins Publishing Co., Amsterdam and Philadelphia. (pp. 17-44)

Chapman, C.R., Nakamura, Y., & Chapman, C.N. (2000). Pain and folk theory. Brain and Mind, 1(2), 209-222.

Chapman, C.R., Nakamura, Y., Donaldson, G.W., Jacobson, R.C., Bradshaw, D.H., Flores, L.Y., & Chapman, C.N. (2001). Sensory and Affective Dimensions of Phasic Pain are Indistinguishable in the Self-Report and Psychophysiology of Normal Laboratory Subjects. Journal of Pain, Vol. 2, No 5, pp 279-294.

Chapman, C.R. & Nakamura, Y. (2001). The affective dimension of pain: mechanisms and implications, in Kaszniak, A. (Ed.), Emotions, Qualia and Consciousness. New Jersey: World Scientific, (pp181-210).

Nakamura, Y. & Chapman, C.R. (in press). Constructing pain: How pain hurts. Proceedings of Fundamental Approaches to Consciousness, Tokyo '99. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Chapman, C.R., Donaldson, G.W., Nakamura, Y., Jacobson, R.C., and Bradshaw, D.H., & Gavrin, J.A. (in press). Psychophysiological Causal Model of Pain Report Validity. Journal of Pain.

Research Support

Ongoing

RO1 CA74269-04 Chapman (PI)                                       4/15/97 – 1/31/02

NIH/NCI                                                                                   

Pain and Defense Response

The major goals of this project are to investigate the emotional dimension of pain in the human studies laboratory, to identify patterns of psychophsyiological response associated with pain and to relate these patterns to the classically defined defense response, and to explore and quantify individual differences in sensory and emotional dimensions of pain.

Role: Co-Investigator