The 46th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society

Organizer: Ryota Hashimoto (NCNP), Akiko Hayashi-Takagi (RIKEN CBS)

Although single disease concepts such as schizophrenia and depression have been thought to be distinct based on diagnostic criteria such as the DSM, there is increasing evidence that there is a continuum of individual psychiatric disorders. Using a cross-disorder approach, it is important to identify vulnerabilities common to multiple disorders and, in contrast, the essential biological phenomena of individual disorders. This symposium will present the importance and recent findings of cross-disorder research on psychiatric disorders from different perspectives: human brain imaging, human symptomatology, iPSC technology and genomic medicine, and animal models.