PROFILE
KATO Tadafumi, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Pathology of Mood Disorders
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
- Paraventricular Thalamic Nucleus
- Mood Stabilizers
Main Research Topics and Interests
- Search for the roles of paraventricular thalamic nucleus in pathophysiology of
bipolar disorder
- Development of new 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
- Bagge EK, Fujimori-Tonou N, Kubota-Sakashita M, Kasahara T, Kato T* (2020) Unbiased
PCR-free spatio-temporal mapping of the mtDNA mutation spectrum reveals brain
region-specific responses to replication instability. BMC Biology 18: 150
- Kato TM, Fujimori-Tonou N, Mizukami H, Ozawa K, Fujisawa S, Kato T (2019)
Presynaptic dysregulation of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus causes
depression-like behavior. Scientific Reports 9: 16506.
- Kasahara T*, Takata A*, Kato TM*, Kubota-Sakashita M, Sawada T, Kakita A, Mizukami
H, Kaneda D, Ozawa K, Kato T (2016) Depression-like Episodes in Mice Harboring mtDNA
Deletions in Paraventricular Thalamus. Molecular Psychiatry, 21: 39-48
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