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Takahiro A. Kato Last modified date:2023.10.27

Associate Professor / Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Department of Clinical Medicine
Faculty of Medical Sciences


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Homepage
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Academic Degree
Ph.D. (Medicine)
Country of degree conferring institution (Overseas)
No
Field of Specialization
Psychiatry, Mood disorders, Hikikomori, Psychoneuroimmunology, Microglia, Psychoanalysis, Transcultural Psychiatry, Sucide Prevention, Inflammation・Oxidative Stress
ORCID(Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5169-2930
Total Priod of education and research career in the foreign country
00years08months
Research
Research Interests
  • Mood disorders
    Hikikomori
    Microglia
    Neuroinflammation
    Suicide prevention
    Psychoanalysis
    Group psychotherapy
    keyword : Mood disorders, Hikikomori, Microglia, Neuroinflammation, Suicide prevention, Psychoanalysis, Group psychotherapy
    2008.04.
Academic Activities
Books
1. Takahiro A. Kato, Developmental model of hikikomori: Possible ways to prevent and treat pathological social withdrawal in later life, Elsevier, San Diego, CA, USA, Book Chapter6: pp135-157 Starting at the beginning: Laying the foundation for lifelong mental health, 2019.11.
Papers
1. Takahiro A. Kato, Shigenobu Kanba, Alan R. Teo, Defining pathological social withdrawal proposed diagnostic criteria for hikikomori, World Psychiatry, 10.1002/wps.20705, 19, 1, 116-117, 2020.02.
2. Kanako Nozaki, Hikaru Ito, Masahiro Ohgidani, Yosuke Yamawaki, Ezgi Hatice Sahin, Takashi Kitajima, Seishi Katsumata, Shigeto Yamawaki, Takahiro A. Kato, Hidenori Aizawa, Antidepressant effect of the translocator protein antagonist ONO-2952 on mouse behaviors under chronic social defeat stress, Neuropharmacology, 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2019.107835, 162, 2020.01.
3. Hiroaki Kubo, Hiromi Urata, Motohiro Sakai, Shunsuke Nonaka, Kazuhiko Saito, Masaru Tateno, Keiji Kobara, Naoki Hashimoto, Daisuke Fujisawa, Yuriko Suzuki, Kotaro Otsuka, Hiroho Kamimae, Yuya Muto, Takashi Usami, Yoko Honda, Junji Kishimoto, Toshihide Kuroki, Shigenobu Kanba, Takahiro A. Kato, Development of 5-day hikikomori intervention program for family members
A single-arm pilot trial, Heliyon, 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e03011, 6, 1, 2020.01.
4. Takahiro Kato, Ryoko Katsuki, Hiroaki Kubo, Norihiro Shimokawa, Mina Sato-Kasai, Kohei Hayakawa, Nobuki Kuwano, Wakako Umene-Nakano, Masaru Tateno, Daiki Setoyama, Dongchon Kang, Motoki Watabe, Shinji Sakamoto, Alan R. Teo, Shigenobu Kanba, Development and validation of the 22-item Tarumi's Modern-Type Depression Trait Scale
Avoidance of Social Roles, Complaint, and Low Self-Esteem (TACS-22), Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 10.1111/pcn.12842, 73, 8, 448-457, 2019.08.
5. Eisuke Hayakawa, Masahiro Ohgidani, Yoshinori Fujimura, Shigenobu Kanba, Daisuke Miura, Takahiro A. Kato, Cuprizone-treated mice, a possible model of schizophrenia, highlighting the simultaneous abnormalities of GABA, serine and glycine in hippocampus, Schizophrenia research, 10.1016/j.schres.2019.06.010, 210, 326-328, 2019.08.
6. Shih-Ku Lin, Yen-Feng Lin, Shu-Yu Yang, Yan-Ling He, Takahiro A Kato, Kohei Hayakawa, Yongchon Park, Kang Sim, Helen Fung-Kum Chiu, Yu-tao Xiang, Mian-Yoon Chong, Chay-Hoon Tan, Toshiya Inada, Naotaka Shinfuku, Comparison of the Defined Daily Dose and Chlorpromazine Equivalent Methods in Antipsychotic Drug Utilization in Six Asian Countries, Neuropsychiatry, DOI: 10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000527, 8, 6, 1847-1852, 2018.12.
7. Yukako Nakagami, Hiroaki Kubo, Ryoko Katsuki, Tomomichi Sakai, Genichi Sugihara, Chisako Naito, Hiroyuki Oda, Kohei Hayakawa, Yuriko Suzuki, Daisuke Fujisawa, Naoki Hashimoto, Keiji Kobara, Tetsuji Cho, Hironori Kuga, Kiyoshi Takao, Yoko Kawahara, Yumi Matsumura, Toshiya Murai, Koichi Akashi, Shigenobu Kanba, Kotaro Otsuka, Takahiro Kato, Development of a 2-h suicide prevention program for medical staff including nurses and medical residents
A two-center pilot trial, Journal of Affective Disorders, 10.1016/j.jad.2017.08.074, 225, 569-576, 2018.08.
8. Tateno M*, Tateno Y, Kamikobe C, Monden R, Sakaoka O, Kanazawa J, Kato TA, Saito T, Internet addiction and ADHD traits among female college students in Japan, Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, doi: org/10.5765/jkacap.180011, 29, 3, 144-148, 2018.07.
9. Alan R. Teo, Jason I. Chen, Hiroaki Kubo, Ryoko Katsuki, Mina Sato-Kasai, Norihiro Shimokawa, Kohei Hayakawa, Wakako Umene-Nakano, James E. Aikens, Shigenobu Kanba, Takahiro A Kato, Development and validation of the 25-item Hikikomori Questionnaire (HQ-25), Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 10.1111/pcn.12691, 2018.05.
10. Nobuki Kuwano, Takahiro Kato, Daiki Setoyama, Mina Sato-Kasai, Norihiro Shimokawa, Kohei Hayakawa, Masahiro Ohgidani, Noriaki Sagata, Hiroaki Kubo, Junji Kishimoto, Dongchon Kang, Shigenobu Kanba, Tryptophan-kynurenine and lipid related metabolites as blood biomarkers for first-episode drug-naïve patients with major depressive disorder
An exploratory pilot case-control study, Journal of Affective Disorders, 10.1016/j.jad.2018.01.014, 231, 74-82, 2018.04.
11. Kohei Hayakawa, Takahiro Kato, Motoki Watabe, Alan R. Teo, Hideki Horikawa, Nobuki Kuwano, Norihiro Shimokawa, Mina Sato-Kasai, Hiroaki Kubo, Masahiro Ohgidani, Noriaki Sagata, Hiroyuki Toda, Masaru Tateno, Naotaka Shinfuku, Junji Kishimoto, Shigenobu Kanba, Blood biomarkers of Hikikomori, a severe social withdrawal syndrome, Scientific Reports, 10.1038/s41598-018-21260-w, 8, 1, 2018.02.
12. Takahiro Kato, Shigenobu Kanba, Alan R. Teo, Hikikomori
experience in Japan and international relevance, World Psychiatry, 10.1002/wps.20497, 17, 1, 105-106, 2018.02, 九州大学を拠点するひきこもり国際共同ネットワークによる成果の概要をまとめた報告である。.
13. Noriaki Sagata, Takahiro Kato, Shin Ichi Kano, Masahiro Ohgidani, Norihiro Shimokawa, Mina Sato-Kasai, Kohei Hayakawa, Nobuki Kuwano, Ashley M. Wilson, Koko Ishizuka, Shiori Kato, Takeshi Nakahara, Makiko Nakahara-Kido, Daiki Setoyama, Yasunari Sakai, Shoichi Ohga, Masutaka Furue, Akira Sawa, Shigenobu Kanba, Dysregulated gene expressions of MEX3D, FOS and BCL2 in human induced-neuronal (iN) cells from NF1 patients
A pilot study, Scientific Reports, 10.1038/s41598-017-14440-7, 7, 1, 2017.12.
14. Masahiro Ohgidani, Takahiro Kato*, Masako Hosoi, Tsuda Makoto, Kohei Hayakawa, Chie Hayaki, Rie Iwaki, Noriaki Sagata, Ryota Hashimoto, Kazuhide Inoue, Nobuyuki Sudo, Shigenobu Kanba, Fibromyalgia and microglial TNF-α
Translational research using human blood induced microglia-like cells, Scientific Reports, 10.1038/s41598-017-11506-4, 7, 1, 2017.12.
15. Takahiro Kato*, Shigenobu Kanba, Modern-type depression as an "adjustment" disorder in Japan
The intersection of collectivistic society encounteringanindividualisticperformance-basedsystem, American Journal of Psychiatry, 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17010059, 174, 11, 1051-1053, 2017.11, うつ病の現代における課題に関して、特に適応の障害という観点から論じた論文である。.
16. Masahiro Ohgidani, Takahiro Kato, Yoshinori Haraguchi, Toshio Matsushima, Yoshito Mizoguchi, Toru Murakawa-Hirachi, Noriaki Sagata, Akira Monji, Shigenobu Kanba, Microglial CD206 gene has potential as a state marker of bipolar disorder, Frontiers in Immunology, 10.3389/fimmu.2016.00676, 7, JAN, 2017.01.
17. Kato TA, Balhara YPS, Chawla JM, Tateno M, Kanba S, Undergraduate medical students' attitudes toward psychiatry: an international cross-sectional survey between India and Japan., International Review of Psychiatry, 25, 4, 378-384, 2013.09.
18. Isomura S, Monji A, Sasaki K, Baba S, Onitsuka T, Ohara T, Mizoguchi Y, Kato TA, Horikawa H, Seki Y, Kanba S:, FTD with catatonia-like signs that temporarily resolved with zolpidem, Neurology: Clinical Practice, 10.1212/CPJ.0b013e318296f263, 3, 4, 354-357, 2013.08.
Presentations
1. Kato TA, Ohgidani M, Setoyama D, Kang D, Kanba S, Human blood-based microglia monitoring system as a novel translational research tool for psychiatric disorders , 6th Congress of AsCNP Asian College of Neuropsychopharmacology Symposium:Glia-Psycho-Pathology: Findings from Rodent Models to Human Subjects, 2019.10.
2. Kato TA, Shinfuku N, Teo AR, Kanba S, Rural urban migration, social isolation and Impact on mental health., 19th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP) Scientific Session: MENTAL HEALTH IN URBAN LIVING (SYMPOSIUM), 2019.08.
3. Kato TA, Hikikomori and Modern-Type Depression in Japan: Assessment and Intervention, Special Lecture :The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, 2019.08.
4. Kato TA, Hikikomori-Multidimensional understanding, assessment and therapeutic approach in Japan, Strength-based Youth Work Conference, 2019.06.
5. Kato TA, Does internet assist hikikomori-like behaviors based on the urban boundless society? , 6th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA 2019) Symposium18 Internet addiction and interpersonal relations: connectedness and severe social withdrawal, hikikomori, 2019.06.
Awards
  • Young Scientists Award from the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, 9th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry (Paris, France)
  • Pacific Rim College of Psychiatry − Schizophrenia Research First Award (Tokyo)
  • Travel Award: World Psychiatric Association Regional Meeting 2007 (Seoul, South Korea)