【Major Papers of the Laboratory】
・Importance of rehabilitation in cancer treatment and palliative medicine. Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology, 41: 733-738, 2011
・Prevalence of dementia in Japan: a systematic review. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 36: 111-118, 2013
・Combined exercise and cognitive training system for dementia patients: a randomized controlled trial. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 45: 318–325, 2018
・The effects of life review-based collage book making on psychosocial functioning and discrepancy between patients' and hospital staff's perception of daily functioning in long-term hospitalized patients with schizophrenia: a randomized controlled trial. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing 51: 183-193, 2024
・Changes in chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment in gastrointestinal cancer survivors using multidomain assessments: a prospective cohort study. Journal of Cancer Survivorship 2025 Feb 15. doi: 10.1007/s11764-025-01759-8.

【Education】
Undergraduate course：We educate basic knowledge, symptoms, and approaches regarding mental disorders for students of nursing course, physical therapy course, and occupational therapy course. Additionally, we teach the importance of communication with patients.

Graduate course：We educate a broad knowledge regarding research planning, research performance, analysis, writing papers, and presentation.

【Research】
1. Research on rehabilitation focusing on psychosocial aspects
2. Research on cancer rehabilitation
3. Research on rehabilitation for older adults (including dementia)
are carried out by one professor, one lecturer, one assistant professor and 27 postgraduate students.