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Psychiatry Lab
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A psychiatry department that pursues clinical care and research on mental disorders across a wide range of areas.
AboutAbout the lab
Supporting a society where people can feel mentally healthy and enriched.
The Psychiatry Lab works on clinical care and research on mental disorders as the Department of Psychiatry at Tohoku University Hospital and as the psychiatry and neurology field of the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine.
Founded in 1916 as the Chair of Psychiatry, it is a department with a long tradition, and in recent years it has worked in a wide range of areas, including early psychosis, child and adolescent psychiatry, perinatal mental health, liaison psychiatry, and cognitive behavioral therapy for various disorders.
The lab focuses on public health in collaboration with local governments and residents, including mental health support after the Great East Japan Earthquake, maternal and child health, and child health.
As part of Tohoku University's university-wide effort to create future medicine that makes full use of biosensing and AI technologies, the lab collaborates with labs and companies inside and outside the university to develop technologies in the field of psychiatry.
Key terms
- Liaison psychiatry
- A field of psychiatry that works with other medical departments to address the mental health problems of people receiving treatment for physical illnesses
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- A form of psychotherapy that works on how people perceive things (cognition) and on behavior to ease mental distress
- Biosensing
- Technology that uses devices to measure signals emitted from the body in order to assess physical and mental states
- Cohort
- A research method that follows a group with shared conditions over a long period to study the course and causes of a disease
NewsLab news
A student received the Excellent Presentation Award (Student Poster) at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology
A paper on proline metabolizing enzymes in the postmortem brain in schizophrenia was published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research
A paper reporting the association between clozapine dose and the risk of agranulocytosis was published in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
A paper reporting the association between autistic symptoms and white matter changes in early psychosis was published in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Together with Keio University and Nagasaki University, the lab developed a guidebook for psychotherapy using information and communication technology
ResearchResearch themes
The Psychiatry Lab aims to provide mental health care services that support a society where people can feel more mentally healthy and enriched. Research is carried out by the following groups: mental disorder cohort, child and adolescent psychiatry, perinatal psychiatry, early psychosis, liaison, cognitive behavioral therapy, disaster psychiatry, and neuroscience and molecular psychiatry.
*Illustrative imageCohort study of mental disorders
The lab plans a cohort study that aims to clarify the pathology of conditions such as schizophrenia and mood disorders and to establish new treatments and diagnostic methods. It will collect and follow clinical information and brain imaging data from patients referred by local medical institutions, with the aim of building a registry of mental disorders.
*Illustrative imagePrevention and early intervention in early psychosis
The lab aims at early detection and early intervention for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Focusing on the at-risk mental state (ARMS) and the period shortly after onset, it works on preventive intervention and on clarifying the mechanisms of onset, based on clinical practice at the specialty outpatient SAFE Clinic.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Psychiatry Lab consist of faculty members, hospital staff physicians, senior residents, part-time physicians, graduate students, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, nurses, research fellows, and department secretaries. Faculty members of the Disaster Psychiatry field at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science and of an endowed department in the Graduate School of Medicine are also included in the staff introduction.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiroaki Tomita
- Associate ProfessorSaya Kikuchi
- LecturerYu Yu
- LecturerHiroshi Komatsu
- Assistant ProfessorNatsuko Kobayashi
- Assistant ProfessorYutaro Sato
- Assistant ProfessorAtsuko Nagaoka
- Assistant ProfessorYu Matsuki
- Assistant ProfessorGo Onoguchi
- Assistant ProfessorYumiko Hamaie
- Assistant ProfessorYusuke Utsumi
- Project AssistantKeiichi Murakami
- Associate ProfessorYasuto Kunii
- Project Assistant ProfessorMizuki Hino
- Assistant ProfessorLi Xue
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- Top image: “Babcock Building, Former South Carolina State Hospital, Columbia, SC” w_lemay / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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