Translational research bidirectionally linking animal models and humans to elucidate molecular etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Basic research on the neural and molecular mechanism of motivation, emotion and memory using non-human primates.

Aims of our research are to develop animal models for neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases.

Interdisciplinary research about human cognitive functions and neural mechanisms to understand the abnormal subjective experiences associated with psychiatric symptoms.