2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A mechanism of schizophrenia from the viewpoint of misrepresentaiton for selfhood
| Project/Area Number |
15K13168
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University (2016-2017)
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (2015) |
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Principal Investigator |
Komura Yutaka 京都大学, こころの未来研究センター, 教授 (80357029)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 統合失調症 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Recent clinical studies suggest that dysfunction of self-monitoring leads to schizophrenia.Confidence is an index of self-monitoring. We behaviorally measured decison confidence in macaque monkeys.Our physiological studies showed that the pulvinar neurons coded confidence, whereas the neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus did not. Moreover, the inactivation of the neural activities in the pulvinar lowered the macaque's confidence.
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| Free Research Field |
神経科学
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