Midori Toyama

TL;DR: The differences across cultures in the enforcement of conformity may reflect their specific histories and advances knowledge that can foster cross-cultural understanding in a world of increasing global interdependence and has implications for modeling cultural change.

TL;DR: This article argued that disputants' self-serving biases of fairness would be more prevalent in individualistic cultures such as the United States, in which the self is served by focusing on one's positive attributes to "stand out" and be better than others, yet would be attenuated in collectivistic cultures, such as Japan, where the self would focus on negative characteristics to "blend in" (S. J. Heine, D. R. Lehman, H. Markus, & S. Kitayama, 1999).

TL;DR: This paper proposed the Circles of Closeness scale to measure the cultural differences in individualism and collectivism, which describe important variations in how the self relates to others, but existing scales may not distinguish among particular ingroups and types of interdependence with them.

TL;DR: It is found that isoflurane and dexmedetomidine suppressed CSD frequency, and tended to reduce the CSD propagation speed, and the data suggest that these anesthetics may be therapeutically beneficial in preventing CSD in diverse neuronal injury states.

TL;DR: It is shown for the first time that the existence of the central sensitization of V2 can be an exacerbating factor for migraine related nociceptive thresholds/activation.