Atsuyoshi Shimada
Aichi Human Service Center Hospital, Japan
Biography
Atsuyoshi Shimada has completed MD-PhD from Kyoto University School of Medicine. Based on his training in experimental pathology in Kyoto and clinical neuropathology at Columbia University, he has studied basic mechanisms underlying brain aging, neurodegeneration, neuronal development and excitotoxic neuronal injury as well as roles for lipid mediators in the brain. His present research interest is in how the brain and immune system interact with each other by way of cell dynamics and intercellular chemical mediators. He has a concept that such brain-immune interaction is a bioregulatory mechanism and its disturbances cause a variety of psychiatric and neurological diseases.