Neuroscience

Department of Neuroscience is composed of three subsections including Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology and Psychiatry. In close cooperation with other fields of discipline related to neuroscience, this department aims at integrative education and research  
on brain morphology and functions and etiopathogenesis of mental diseases.

Neuroanatomy, Brain sexual differentiation, Limbic system and emotion, Stigmoid body,

primary olfactory system, Steroid receptors in the brain, Neuro degeneration disease

Professor SHINODA Koh, MD, PhD

Brain development, Physiology of fetal brain, Maternofetal brain

interaction, Stress and brain, Pathophysiology of depression, Function of

central monoaminergic system

Professor NAKAMURA Shoji, MD, PhD

Lecturer SAKATA Yoshiyuki, PhD

Psychoneuroendocrinology, Psychopharmacology, Neural adaptational mechanism

to stress, Stress vulnerability in depression, Neural circuit of emotion,

Neuroimaging

Professor WATANABE Yoshifumi, MD, PhD

Associate Professor AKIMOTO Takashi, MD, PhD

Lecturer SUETSUGI Masatomo, MD, PhD

Lecturer NISHIDA Akira, MD, PhD