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Psychiatry Lab
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A lab that studies the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders and works to elucidate their etiology and pathophysiology.
AboutAbout the lab
From clinical questions to understanding pathophysiology.
The Psychiatry Lab studies the diagnosis, treatment, etiology, and pathophysiology of a wide range of mental disorders, including schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, dementia, and autism spectrum disorder.
Keeping in mind the needs of patients and their families, the lab aims to resolve questions that arise in daily clinical practice, and to develop diagnostic methods, treatments, and preventive approaches based on an understanding of etiology and pathophysiology.
Research is carried out comprehensively from biological, psychological, and social perspectives, with an emphasis on clinical research and basic research advancing in collaboration.
Key terms
- Genome-wide association study (GWAS)
- A method that examines the entire genome to look for genetic differences associated with a disease
- Liaison psychiatry
- Medical care in which psychiatry works together with other departments to address the mental health problems of patients being treated in those departments
- Real-world data
- Data collected in actual clinical practice rather than in clinical trials
- Brain bank
- A system that stores human brain tissue and provides it for research
ResearchResearch themes
The lab emphasizes clinical research and basic research advancing in collaboration, and studies the diagnosis, treatment, etiology, and pathophysiology of schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, dementia, autism spectrum disorder, and other conditions from biological, psychological, and social perspectives. Research is under way in areas such as genomics, psychotherapy, clinical pharmacology and epidemiology, neuropathology and geriatric psychiatry, child psychiatry, neuroimaging, perinatal psychiatry, and basic research.
*Illustrative imageGenomic Analysis of Psychiatric Disorders
The lab uses genome-wide association studies and whole-genome sequencing to investigate genetic factors involved in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders and in how patients respond to drugs. With T2T long-read sequencing technology, it also analyzes regions that could not be read before.
*Illustrative imagePsychotherapy and Liaison Psychiatry
The lab practices psychodynamic psychiatry and liaison psychiatry. It examines psychosocial factors related to depression and anxiety in cancer patients and organ transplant patients, with the aim of enabling early detection and intervention. It also works with patients who have chronic pain in the field of dentistry.
*Illustrative imageClinical Research and Epidemiology of Psychotropic Drugs
The lab conducts clinical and epidemiological studies on the efficacy, safety, and appropriate use of psychotropic drugs, and also uses real-world data with the aim of generating new evidence. Other studies search for disease markers in biological information such as EEG and sleep.
*Illustrative imageBrain Bank and Geriatric Psychiatry
The lab has built the Nagoya Brain Bank Consortium and analyzes a wide range of human brain tissue, from schizophrenia to neurodegenerative diseases. It focuses on psychiatric symptoms in the prodromal stage of dementia, and works on the search for diagnostic biomarkers and on the early diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMasashi Ikeda
- Clinical ProfessorHiroyuki Kimura
- Project ProfessorNorio Ozaki
- Project ProfessorHiroshige Fujishiro
- Associate ProfessorYota Torii
- Project Associate ProfessorBranko Aleksic
- Hospital LecturerItaru Kushima
- LecturerHiroki Kimura
- LecturerMaeri Yamamoto
- LecturerMasako Tachibana
- Project LecturerHidekazu Kato
- Assistant ProfessorMariko Uematsu
- Hospital Assistant ProfessorKazuhiro Takeda
- Hospital Assistant ProfessorMasanori Shimamoto
- Hospital Assistant ProfessorYoshiharu Koie
- Hospital Assistant ProfessorTakaya Igami
- Hospital Assistant ProfessorReon Kondo
- Project Assistant ProfessorYu Hayashi
- Project Associate ProfessorDaisuke Mori
- Project LecturerYuko Arioka
- Project LecturerSeiko Miyata
- Project Assistant ProfessorHiroki Okumura
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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: “MRI brain tumor” Bobjgalindo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Genomic Analysis of Psychiatric Disorders: “DNA-Sequencers from Flickr 57080968” Flickr user jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Psychotherapy and Liaison Psychiatry: “Mental health partnership strengthens care during LAMAT 2026 in Saint Kitts and Nevis (9554275)” U.S. Air Force photo by Andrea Jenkins / Public domain (cropped)
- Clinical Research and Epidemiology of Psychotropic Drugs: “Castellon Pharmacy New Orleans Empty Shelves where TP and Wipes were” Infrogmation of New Orleans / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Brain Bank and Geriatric Psychiatry: “ALSPAC biological samples in freezer” Nick Smith photography / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Psychiatric Medicine Lab): “A patient sleeping in Ward 14 of the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital in Prague” Martin Svozílek / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Medical Pharmacy Lab): “Aisha Hospital Pharmacy” SA twenty / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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