| Budget Amount *help |
¥11,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥6,110,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,410,000)
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| Research Abstract |
There are limits to brain research on psychiatric disorders using animals. In the present study, we analyzed postmortem brain samples of schizophrenia patients obtained from the Postmortem Brain Bank of Fukushima using a cutting-edge technology called mass microscopy. While dopamine, glutamic acid, and GABA are thought to play key roles in the etiology of schizophrenia, and neural networks are considered to form the basis of neurotransmission, in the present study, we succeeded in visualizing the 2-dimensional distribution of neuronal membrane components that are important for elucidating neural networks in the postmortem brains of schizophrenia patients.
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