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.
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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
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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
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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