Current status of psychiatric brain bank and postmortem brain research

• Kunii Yasuto

  Department of Disaster Psychiatry, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University

• Nagaoka Atsuko

  Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University

• Hino Mizuki

  Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University

• Izumi Ryuta

  Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University

• Shishido Risa

  Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University

• Yabe Hirooki

  Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 精神疾患ブレインバンクと死後脳研究の現在

Abstract

Biological research that is being actively conducted from various directions is rapidly elucidating the pathophysiology of psychiatric diseases. Many postmortem brain studies have recently been performed to verify the findings of the above studies. For such postmortem brain researches, a systematic psychiatric brain bank that can provide brain samples suitable for study is essential. Since 1997 we have managed the systematic postmortem brain bank on psychiatric diseases specializes in schizophrenia for the first time in Japan in order to understand and cure psychiatric diseases and currently maintains 62 brain tissue resources. Since 2016, Japan Brain Bank Net (JBBN) has been organized, and brain banks in Japan are being networked nationwide in order to meet the wishes of nationwide pre‐registered donors. In this article, we show the practices of psychiatric postmortem brain bank in Japan and the outlines the current status of psychiatric disease studies using postmortem brain samples.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Biological Psychiatry

  Japanese Journal of Biological Psychiatry 32 (4), 179-185, 2021

  Japanese Society of Biological Psychiatry

Keywords

• psychiatric brain bank
• postmortem brain
• psychiatric disease
• molecular mechanisms

Details

• CRID: 1390009062457716608
• NII Article ID: 130008134590
• DOI: 10.11249/jsbpjjpp.32.4_179
• ISSN: 21866465
• ISSN: 21866619
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed