Updated : October 19, 2020

Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

Supervisors

Toshifumi Kishimoto
Junzo Iida
Fumihiko Yasuno
Hiroki Yoshino
Manabu Makkinodan

Specialized Subjects

We aim to support students to obtain high-level expertise and skills by examining the latest research papers, conducting experiments, and performing data analysis under the individualized guidance of staff members specializing in basic neuroscientific, clinical imaging, and rehabilitation research. Through meetings to report the progress of each experiment and daily discussions with teaching staff members, they are expected to develop appropriate thoughts for the planning of research projects and interpretation of the results, in addition to viewpoints and logicality that are important for their implementation. They will also actively present their research outcomes at domestic and international academic meetings and summarize them in research papers based on the experience of such presentations to become a researcher who conducts studies on a global basis.

Main research themes:
1. The effect of social isolation during development on myelination in the brain
2. The effect of social isolation on the electrical activity of neurons in the prefrontal cortex
2. Dynamics of microglia in animal models of autism
3. Pathology of schizophrenia: analyzing neurons derived from iPS cells
4. Structural MRI research on dementia: using T1-weighted and diffusion tensor images
5. Intracerebral functional connections in each type of mental disorder: using resting-state functional MRI
6. Cognitive rehabilitation for patients with schizophrenia using PC game programs