PROFILE
KATO Tadafumi, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Short Biography
- 1988
- M.D. The University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine
- 1988-1989
- Resident, Department of Neuropsychiatry, The University of Tokyo Hospital
- 1989-1997
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Shiga University of Medical
Science
- 1995
- Ph.D. Shiga University of Medical Science
- 1995-1996
- International Visiting Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa
College of Medicine
- 1997-1999
- Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine
- 1999-2000
- Lecturer, The University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine
- 2001-2018
- Team Leader, Laboratory for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders, RIKEN Brain
Science Institute
- 2018-Present
- Team Leader, Laboratory for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders, RIKEN Center
for Brain Science
- 2019-2020
- Deputy Director, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
- 2020-Present
- Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Juntendo University
Graduate School of Medicine
Director, Center for Mood Disorders, Juntendo University
Keywords
- Bipolar Disorder
- Genomics
- Mitochondria
- Neurobiology
Main Research Topics and Interests
- Search for neurobiological basis of bipolar disorder by analyzing postmortem brains,
cellular and animal models, and neuroimaging
- Exome sequencing analysis of bipolar disorder
- Development of mood stabilizers
Publications (in English)
- Original Articles: 257 (Scopus)
- Review Articles: 30 (Scopus)
- h-Index: 66 (Scopus)
- Sum of Times Cited: 14,950 (Scopus)
Recent Main Publications
- Nishioka M, Kazuno A, Nakamura T, Sakai N, Hayama T, Fujii K, Matsuo K, Komori A,
Ishiwata M, Watanabe Y, Oka T, Matoba N, Kataoka M, Alkanaq AN, Hamanaka K, Tsuboi
T, Sengoku T, Ogata K, Iwata N, Ikeda M, Matsumoto N, Kato T*, Takata A* (2021).
Systematic analysis of exonic germline and postzygotic de novo mutations in bipolar
disorder. Nature Communications 12: 3750.
- Bundo M, Ueda J, Nakachi Y, Kasai K, Kato T*, Iwamoto K*. Decreased DNA methylation
at promoters and gene-specific neuronal hypermethylation in the prefrontal cortex of
patients with bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry April 20, 2021
- Sawada T*, Chater TE, Sasagawa Y, Yoshimura M, Fujimori-Tonou N, Tanaka K, Benjamin
KJM, Paquola ACM, Erwin JA, Goda Y, Nikaido I, Kato T* (2020). Developmental
excitation-inhibition imbalance underlying psychoses revealed by single-cell
analyses of discordant twins-derived cerebral organoids. Molecular Psychiatry 25,
2695–2711
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