About NIMD

Our organization, departments, staff and researchers

Yuri Kikuchi

Research group affiliation : Medical Practice/Welfare/Society Group

The Comprehensive Medicine Section is engaged in research on objective assessments of Minamata disease by magnetoencephalography and MRI and in therapeutic research on pain suffered by the patients with Minamata disease using magnetic stimulation devices.

Figure 1: Undergoing electroencephalography(EEG) examination
Figure 2: Undergoing magnetoencephalography examination
Research theme - Areas of work

Project research

Research on methylmercury exposure health effects in humans and therapeutic development

Main career history, academic history, academic degrees, awards, etc.
  • 2020Medical Technologist license obtained
  • 2022Complection( Master's program in Health Sciences, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Health Sciences Education, and worked at a hospital in Kumamoto Prefecture)
  • 2023Assigned as a Clinical Laboratory Technician at the National Institute for Minamata Disease