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Neuropsychiatry Lab
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The psychiatry lab investigates the mechanisms of the mind and brain from many angles, including neuroscience and psychology.
AboutAbout the lab
Understand the mind, the brain, and human beings and their society.
The neuropsychiatry lab studies the mind and brain across every stage of human life, from infancy to old age.
It investigates them using many approaches, including neuroscience, molecular genetics, psychopathology, psychology, and sociology.
The department includes labs for child psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, cognitive behavioral therapy, neurophysiology, molecular psychiatry, and more.
In the clinical graduate program, students can treat patients in specialty outpatient clinics while writing up their clinical research as papers, and advancing to the basic research graduate program is also welcome.
Key terms
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- A mental disorder in which a person is troubled by repetitive thoughts or behaviors. Also written as OCD.
- Hoarding disorder
- A mental disorder in which a person cannot let go of possessions and accumulates them.
- Hisayama Study
- An epidemiological study conducted in Hisayama Town, Fukuoka Prefecture, that examines risk factors for dementia, depression, and other conditions.
ResearchResearch themes
The Department of Psychiatry at Kyushu University investigates the mechanisms of the mind and brain using many approaches, including neuroscience, molecular genetics, psychopathology, psychology, and sociology. The department includes labs for child psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, cognitive behavioral therapy, and more, and pursues research closely tied to clinical practice.
*Illustrative imageClinical research on obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding disorder
The lab conducts clinical research on obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding disorder, using behavior therapy, neuroimaging, and cognitive function as clues. Anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoarding disorder, and behavior therapy for them are Professor Nakao's main areas of expertise.
*Illustrative imageAnalysis of dementia in the Hisayama Study
In the epidemiological survey of Hisayama Town, Fukuoka Prefecture (the Hisayama Study), Associate Professor Ohara examines the relationship of dementia and depression with lifestyle-related diseases. The lab also searches for lifestyle-related disease genes, mainly for Alzheimer's disease, and analyzes the interaction between lifestyle-related diseases and environmental factors.
*Illustrative imageResearch on mood disorders and social withdrawal
Assistant Professor Matsuo's research themes are mood disorders and social withdrawal (hikikomori). A study examining the relationship between the characteristics of immune cells in the blood of patients with depression and tendencies toward social withdrawal has been published as a paper.
MembersFaculty
The members of the neuropsychiatry lab consist of faculty, staff physicians, academic researchers, specially appointed faculty, graduate students, psychiatric social workers, occupational therapists, and certified public psychologists.As of 2026
- ProfessorTomohiro Nakao
- Associate ProfessorTomoyuki Ohara
- Lecturer, Clinical Associate ProfessorKeitaro Murayama
- LecturerYasushi Tomiyama
- Assistant Professor, Clinical LecturerAyako Ohashi
- Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor-LecturerNoriaki Hirakawa
- Assistant ProfessorKenta Kato
- Assistant ProfessorKeitarou Matsuo
- Assistant ProfessorRyo Mitoma
- Assistant ProfessorSota Kuraki
- Project LecturerKenichi Yamane
- Project Assistant ProfessorDaisuke Katsuki
- Project Assistant ProfessorYusei Iwaya
- Project Assistant ProfessorIchita Nakamura
- Project Associate ProfessorHiroshi Yamashita
- Project Assistant ProfessorToshio Matsushima
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Rat primary cortical neuron culture, 3D reconstruction ( )” ZEISS Microscopy from Germany / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Clinical research on obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding disorder: “Bregenz-Cluttered interiors (compulsive hoarding)-living room-02ASD” Asurnipal / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Analysis of dementia in the Hisayama Study: “Elderly man walking with a stick and one hand on his back” William Murphy / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Research on mood disorders and social withdrawal: “Mental Illness Icon 2” MissLunaRose12 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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