Special Contract Assistant Prof. Yoshitaka Hayashi, Ph.D.

Education
2005 : Ph. D., Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Professional Appointments
2012- : Special Contract Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology,
Shiga University of Medical Science
2009-2012 : Research student, Affective Disorders Research Team, Tokyo Metropolitan
Institute of Medical Science
Research Interest
Major depressive disorder; Bipolar disorder: Schizophrenia; Neuropathology; Neurophysiology; Neurodevelopment; Epigenetics
Selected publications
- Hayashi Y, Nihonmatsu-Kikuchi N, Hisanaga S-i, Yu X, Tatebayashi Y. (2012) Neuropathological similarities and differences between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder : a flow cytometric postmortem brain study. PLoS One 7, e33019
- Hayashi Y, Nihonmatsu-Kikuchi N, Hisanaga S-i, Tatebayashi Y. (2011) A novel, rapid, cell-counting method for unfixed frozen brains comprehensively quantifies at least four neural cell populations. Mol Psychiat 16, 1155
- Hayashi Y, Nihonmatsu-Kikuchi N, Yu X, Ishimoto K, Hisanaga S-i, Tatebayashi Y. (2011) A novel, rapid, quantitative cell-counting method reveals oligodendroglial reduction in the frontopolar cortex in major depressive disorder. Mol Psychiat 16, 1156-1158
- Hirai K, Kuroyanagi H, Tatebayashi Y, Hayashi Y, Hirabayashi-Takahashi K, Saito K, Haga S, Uemura T, Izumi S. (2010) Dual role of the carboxyl-terminal region of pig liver L-kynurenine 3-monooxygenase: mitochondrial-targeting signal and enzymatic activity. J Biochem 148, 639-650