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Psychiatry Lab
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A lab that seeks to understand mental illness from biological, psychological, and social perspectives and to find new treatments.
AboutAbout the lab
Without haste, without pause
The Psychiatry Lab conducts research to clarify how mental illnesses arise and to develop treatments.
Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that seeks to understand the human mind and its disorders from biological, psychological, and social perspectives.
The lab has a wet lab and equipment for imaging the human brain and measuring brain activity, so students can work on both basic and clinical research.
Research is carried out in eight research groups covering schizophrenia, mood disorders, epilepsy, hikikomori (social withdrawal), and more.
Key terms
- Event-related potentials
- Very small electrical changes that occur in the brain in response to stimuli such as sounds or images. They are extracted from the EEG and measured.
- Bipolar disorder
- A condition in which periods of elevated mood (mania) and periods of depressed mood (depression) repeat.
- Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures
- Seizures that closely resemble epileptic seizures but are not accompanied by abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Also called PNES.
NewsLab news
A paper by Assistant Professor Horinochi and colleagues was published in Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
Research on treatment-resistant schizophrenia by Assistant Professor Sawagashira and colleagues was published in Neuropsychopharmacology Reports
A physician of the lab received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 149th Meeting of the Hokkaido Society of Psychiatry and Neurology
Assistant Professor Horinochi received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 122nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology
The second information session on joining the department (iikyoku) was held for those interested in training and clinical clerkships
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to clarify the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders and to develop treatments. It has eight research groups: schizophrenia, mood disorders, clinical psychopathology, clinical neurophysiology, forensic psychiatry, hikikomori (social withdrawal), child psychiatry, and molecular and cellular research.
*Illustrative imageSchizophrenia
This group conducts research and clinical practice on schizophrenia. It carries out clinical studies of cognitive impairment, regarded as a key to recovery, by combining cognitive function tests, event-related potentials, and brain imaging with MRI.
*Illustrative imageMood disorders (depression and bipolar disorder)
Basic research examines how antidepressants and mood stabilizers work, the generation of new neurons, and the long-term effects of early childhood stress. Clinical research addresses indicators for distinguishing depression from bipolar disorder, and cognitive function in mood disorders.
*Illustrative imageClinical psychopathology
This group conducts research while treating a wide range of psychiatric disorders, not limited to specific illnesses. Its main themes include social anxiety disorder, eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, suicidal behavior from the perspective of personality, and cognitive behavioral therapy for depression and bipolar disorder.
*Illustrative imageEpilepsy and psychiatric disorders
Centered on epilepsy, this group works on clinical care and research for patients who also have psychiatric disorders. Its studies cover electroencephalogram (EEG) assessment, how to distinguish epilepsy from psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, and the relationship between psychiatric medications and epileptic seizures.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Psychiatry Lab are faculty and doctoral students. Physicians from the Department of Psychiatry at Hokkaido University Hospital, the Child Mental Health and Development Center, and the Forensic Psychiatry Center, as well as faculty from the Health Care Center, also help supervise students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakahiro Kato
- Specially Appointed Professor (Research Center for Child Mental Development)Takuya Saito
- Professor (Health Administration Center)Satoshi Asakura
- Associate Professor (Forensic Psychiatry Center)Yuki Kako
- Associate ProfessorNaoki Hashimoto
- Associate Professor (Health Center)Nobuyuki Mitsui
- Project Associate Professor (Industry Creation Field)Daiki Setoyama
- LecturerHisashi Narita
- Assistant ProfessorYasushi Fujii
- Assistant ProfessorToru Horinochi
- Assistant ProfessorRyo Sawagashira
- Assistant ProfessorYuichi Nakamura
- Assistant Professor (Forensic Psychiatry Center)Kei Takada
- Assistant ProfessorAtsuhito Toyomaki
- Assistant ProfessorShuhei Ishikawa
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- Top image: “DTI-sagittal-fibers” Thomas Schultz / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Schizophrenia: “MRI brain sagittal section” everyone's idle / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Mood disorders (depression and bipolar disorder): “Dentate gyrus II” National Institutes of Health (NIH) / Public domain (cropped)
- Clinical psychopathology: “Therapy Room at Resilient Mind Therapies, Leicester” RMtherapies / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Epilepsy and psychiatric disorders: “EEG electrode” Gspilich2 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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