Head of the Division of NeuroHealth Innovation
Academic Assembly Professor (Institute of Medicine)
Ph. D. in Medicine
Research Professor
Department of NeuroHealth Innovation
We focus on the pathologic characterization, prevention, and treatment of intractable neurodegenerative diseases that are the cause of dementia and neuropsychiatric disorders and lifestyle-related diseases through approaches involving amyloidosis, neurosynapses, and sports medicine research.

- 1. Neuronal and vascular amyloid deposition of a familial amyloid polyneuropathy patient
- 2. Interval walking training
- 3. Gene introduction to pyramidal neurons in layer 2/3 of the mouse neocortex.
- Red represents the expression of Red fluorescent protein from Discosoma sp., green represents the expression of CASK, a causative gene of a type of neurodevelopemental disorder, and yellow represents neurons expressing both. The nuclei of all the neocortical cells were shown in blue. (Image from Mori et al. Molecular Psychiatry 2019)
- 4. Disease-model animals