Koichi Hosomi

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Total Citations

100

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About

Koichi Hosomi is a leading researcher in the intersection of neurorehabilitation and pain management, with a primary focus on phantom limb pain and its underlying neural mechanisms. His work has been instrumental in advancing the theory that maladaptive reorganization of the sensorimotor cortex drives phantom limb pain, and he has pioneered innovative interventions to reverse this process. In his landmark 2016 study, Hosomi demonstrated that inducing sensorimotor brain plasticity through targeted feedback could significantly control pain in phantom limb patients, a finding that has garnered 79 citations and reshaped clinical approaches to deafferentation pain. Building on this, he explored the use of magnetoencephalography (MEG)-based brain-machine interfaces (BMI) to alleviate intractable pain following brachial plexus root avulsion, showing that real-time neural feedback can reduce pain even in insensible limbs. His 2019 work further extended this paradigm by employing a BCI-controlled prosthetic hand to modulate phantom limb pain, highlighting the therapeutic potential of closed-loop neurotechnology. With citations exceeding 100 across his key publications, Hosomi’s research bridges fundamental neuroscience and translational applications, offering hope for patients with chronic neuropathic pain and establishing him as a key figure in the field of brain-computer interfaces for pain control.