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General Description of the Department
The Department of Neuropsychiatry was established in 1983. Since then,
we have conducted medical practice, education and research related to psychiatry
and clinical ethics. We have been offering clinical services in the specialties
of mood disorders, dementia and related disorders, and consultation-liaison
psychiatry.
Staff Members
Professor: Nobutaka MOTOHASHI, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Neurochemistry,Neuroimaging
Algorithm for the treatment of mood disorders
Mechanisms of action of psychotropic drugs
Mechanisms of action of electroconvulsive therapy
Pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders
Professor: Chiaki KAGAWA, M.A.
French modern philosophy, Bioethics, Neuroethics
Associate Professor: Akihiko NUNOMURA, M.D.
Clinical Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, Neuropathology, Neurobiology in Age-related Neurodegenerative Disease
Assistant Professor: Yutaka MATSUSHITA, M.D.
Clinical Psychiatry
Assistant Professor: Toshio TAMAOKI, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Psychiatry, Molecular biology
Assistant Professor: Kaoru KOBAYASHI, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Psychiatry
Palliative care
Brain Science (In vivo brain functional imaging)
Consultation-liaison psychiatry
Assistant Professor: Yuji TONOOKA, M.D.
Clinical Psychiatry
Assistant Professor: Kazuyuki YASUDA, M.D.
Clinical Psychiatry
Assistant Professor: Tomokazu FUJII, M.D.
Clinical Psychiatry
Assistant Professor: Koichi TANAKA, M.D.
Clinical Psychiatry
General Description of Our Research Effort
Systematic approaches to the treatment of refractory mood disorders Systematic
approaches to the assessment of dementia and related disorders Neuroimaging
approaches to the mechanisms of action of electroconvulsive therapy and
transcranial magnetic stimulation Molecular approaches to the candidate
genes of psychiatric disorders and genes of temperaments Chronobiological
approaches to sleep disorders
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