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Neuropsychiatry / Behavioral Medicine Lab (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)
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The lab searches for clues to psychosomatic disorders and eating disorders in individual differences in stress and the brain.

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Finding clues to disease in individual differences in stress and the brain
The Behavioral Medicine lab in the Department of Neuropsychiatry (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry) studies stress-related disorders, mainly psychosomatic disorders and eating disorders.
Its themes are cognitive function related to psychological stress and individual differences in brain activity and brain morphology.
The lab aims to identify biomarkers that are useful for diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis prediction.
Key terms
- Psychosomatic disorder
- A general term for illnesses in which psychological stress is closely involved in physical symptoms
- Biomarker
- A measurable indicator from the body that serves as a guide to the presence or course of a disease
- Cognitive function
- The workings of the brain by which a person understands, thinks, and makes judgments
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to identify biomarkers that are useful for the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis prediction of stress-related disorders. It focuses mainly on psychosomatic disorders and eating disorders, and examines cognitive function related to psychological stress as well as individual differences in brain activity and brain morphology.
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- ProfessorAtsushi Sekiguchi
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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: “UK lab MRI Aaron Filler” Aaron Filler / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Research on individual differences in stress and the brain: “The Human Brain Model 01” Edeh Sophia / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Psychosomatic Medicine Lab): “FMRI coronal scan of Nathanial Bradford” Nathanial Luceus / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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