会津医療センター精神医学講座は、福島県立医科大学の附属病院として、臨床・教育・研究を行っています。
私たちの研究および主な業績をご紹介します。

臨床研究のご紹介

全国規模の共同研究

・DIAN-Japan 日本優性遺伝性アルツハイマー病ネットワーク(https://dian-japan.com/
・FTLD-Japan 前頭側頭葉変性症の早期診断法開発および、自然歴に影響する臨床・遺伝因子の探索
・若年性認知症の有病率・生活実態把握と多元的データ共有システムの開発(終了)
・PSEN1(Presenilin1 プレセニリン 1 )遺伝子変異アルツハイマー病に対する TW-012R の安全性と有効性を検討する 二重盲検比較試験 及び 非盲検継続投与試験
他、多数。

主な競争的資金の獲得

厚生労働科学研究費:認知症の病態の進行に影響する重症化因子の特定と進行予防への効果的な介入方法の確立のための研究(23GB0301)(代表)(令和5年4月-令和8年3月)

厚生労働科学研究費:認知症の遠隔医療およびケア提供を促進するための研究(23GB0101)(分担)(令和5年4月-令和8年3月)

厚生労働科学研究費:認知症者における抑うつ・無気力に対する治療法に関するエビデンス構築を目指した研究(20GB1002)(分担)(令和2年4月-令和5年3月)
文部科学省科学研究費、基盤研究(C):辺縁系優位型加齢性TDP-43脳症(LATE)の臨床画像病理学的研究(代表)(2020年4月-2024年3月)
文部科学省科学研究費、基盤研究(C):レビー小体病の病態修飾に関与する遺伝子の同定(分担)(2019年4月-2023年3月)

主な業績のご紹介

Qi C, Kobayashi R, Kawakatsu S, Kametani F, Scheres SHW, Goedert M, Hasegawa M. Tau filaments with the chronic traumatic encephalopathy fold in a case of vacuolar tauopathy with VCP mutation D395G. Acta Neuropathol. 2024 May 17;147(1):86. doi: 10.1007/s00401-024-02741-x.

Morioka D, Kobayashi R, Kawakatsu S, Sakamoto K, Suzuki A. Style changes before and after disease onset in the works of an ikebana (Japanese traditional flower arrangement) artist with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2023 Aug;77(8):460-461. doi: 10.1111/pcn.13571. Epub 2023 Jun 15.PMID: 37254948

Kawakatsu S, Kobayashi R. Towards Improved Clinical Diagnosis of Argyrophilic Grain Disease Using Brain Imaging. J Alzheimers Dis.93(1):389-392, 2023. doi: 10.3233/JAD-230247.

Kobayashi R, Nakamura T, Naganuma F, Harada R, Morioka D, Kanoto M, Furumoto S, Kudo Y, Kabasawa T, Otani K, Futakuchi M, Kawakatsu S, Okamura N.In vivo [18F]THK-5351 imaging detected reactive astrogliosis in argyrophilic grain disease with comorbid pathology: A clinicopathological study. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol.82(5):427-437,2023 doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlad018.

Kawakatsu S, Kobayashi R, Morioka D, et al.  Clinicopathological diversity of semantic dementia: Comparisons of patients with early‐onset versus late‐onset, left‐sided versus right‐sided temporal atrophy, and TDP‐type A versus type C pathology. Neuropathology 43(1):5-26, 2023. doi: 10.1111/neup.12859.

Kobayashi R, Hayashi H, Kawakatsu S, et al. Comparing Medial Temporal Atrophy Between Early-Onset Semantic Dementia and Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Using Voxel-Based Morphometry: A Multicenter MRI Study. Curr Alzheimer Res. 2022 doi: 10.2174/1567205019666220820145429. 

Kobayashi R, Kawakatsu S, Ohba M, et al. Dopamine Transporter Imaging for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration With Motor Neuron Disease. Front Neurosci. 16:755211,2022  

Hayashi H, Kobayashi R, Kawakatsu S, et al. Comparison of the decreases in regional cerebral blood flow in the posterior cingulate cortex, precuneus, and parietal lobe between suspected non-Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology and Alzheimer’s disease. Psychogeriatrics 21(5):716-721,2021

川勝 忍、小林 良太, 森岡 大智, 大谷 浩一。意味性認知症の神経心理と神経病理。神経心理学 38(2):86-95,2022 

Kobayashi R, Kawakatsu S, Morioka D, et al. Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy characterised by frontotemporal dementia-like behavioural symptoms. Psychogeriatrics. 22(4):574-579, 2022

Kawakatsu S, Kobayashi R, Hayashi H, et al. Clinicopathological heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s disease with pure Alzheimer’s disease pathology: Cases associated with dementia with Lewy bodies, very early-onset dementia, and primary progressive aphasia. Neuropathology 41:427-449,2021

    Awata S, Edahiro A, Arai T, Ikeda M, Ikeuchi T, Kawakatsu S, Konagaya Y, Miyanaga K, Ota H, Suzuki K, Tanimukai S, Utsumi K, Kakuma T. Prevalence and subtype distribution of early-onset dementia in Japan. Psychogeriatrics. 2020 Aug 19. doi: 10.1111/psyg.12596

    Hayashi H, Kobayashi R, Kawakatsu S, Morioka D, Otani K.Hayashi H, et al.  Utility of Easy Z-Score Imaging System-Assisted SPECT in Detecting Onset Age-Dependent Decreases in Cerebral Blood Flow in the Posterior Cingulate Cortex, Precuneus, and Parietal Lobe in Alzheimer’s Disease with Amyloid Accumulation. Dement Geriatr Cogn Dis Extra. 2020 Jun 10;10(2):63-68. doi: 10.1159/000507654.

    川勝 忍、小林 良太、坂本 和貴、大谷 浩一。前頭側頭葉変性症概念の歴史的変性。BRAIN and NERVE 72(6):561-573,2020

    川勝 忍、小林 良太:進行性失語の臨床型、2.意味性認知症、p83-96、進行性失語、日本高次脳機能障害学会教育研修委員会編、新興医学出版社、東京、2019

    川勝 忍、小林 良太、林 博史、大谷 浩一、佐々木 哲也、渋谷 譲。複合病理の診断の仕方。老年精神医学雑誌30増刊号-Ⅰ,73-83,2019

    小林 良太, 川勝 忍, 林 博史, 岡村 信行, 大谷 浩一. 若年発症と高齢発症の初期意味障害型進行性失語の神経心理学的・神経放射線学的所見 1年間の経過比較. 神経心理学 35(4):238 – 248, 2019 

    Matsuda H, Yokoyama K, Sato N, Ito K, Nemoto K, Oba H, Hanyu H, Kanetaka H, Mizumura S, Kitamura S, Shinotoh H, Shimada H, Suhara T, Terada H, Nakatsuka T, Kawakatsu S, Hayashi H, Asada T, Ono T, Goto T, Shigemori K. Differentiation Between Dementia With Lewy Bodies And Alzheimer’s Disease Using Voxel-Based Morphometry Of Structural MRI: A Multicenter Study.  Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 15:2715-2722,2019

    Tanaka H, Kawakatsu S, Toyoshima Y, Miura T, Mezaki N, Mano A, Sanpei K, Kobayashi R, Hayashi H, Otani K, Ikeuchi T, Onodera O, Kakita A, Takahashi H. Globular glial tauopathy Type II: Clinicopathological study of two autopsy cases. Neuropathology 39(2) 111 – 119, 2019

    Kobayashi R, Hayashi H, Kawakatsu S, Okamura N, Yoshioka M, Otani K.Assessment of Amyloid Deposition in Patients With Probable REM Sleep Behavior Disorder as a Prodromal Symptom of Dementia With Lewy Bodies Using PiB-PET. Front Neurol. 2019 Jun 25;10:671

    Kobayashi R, Hayashi H, Kawakatsu S, Ishiki A, Okamura N, Arai H, Otani K.[18F]THK-5351 PET imaging in early-stage semantic variant primary progressive aphasia: a report of two cases and a literature review. 

    BMC neurology 2018  Aug8; 18(1) :109  

    Kondo T, Imamura K, Funayama M, Tsukita K, Miyake M, Ohta A, Woltjen K, Nakagawa M, Asada T, Arai T, Kawakatsu S, Izumi Y, Kaji R, Iwata N, Inoue H. iPSC-Based Compound Screening and In Vitro Trials Identify a Synergistic Anti-amyloid β Combination for Alzheimer’s Disease. Cell Rep. 2017 Nov 21;21(8):2304-2312 

    Kawakatsu S, Kobayashi R, Hayashi H.Typical and atypical appearance of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease: A clinical, neuroimaging and neuropathological study. Neuropathology. 2017 Apr;37(2):150-173.

    Shibuya Y, Kawakatsu S, Hayashi H, Kobayashi R, Suzuki A, Sato C, Otani K. Comparison of entorhinal cortex atrophy between early-onset and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease using the VSRAD, a specific and sensitive voxel-based morphometry. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2013 Apr;28(4):372-6.

    Hayashi H, Kawakatsu S, Suzuki A, Shibuya Y, Kobayashi R, Sato C, Otani K. Application of the VSRAD, a specific and sensitive voxel-based morphometry, to comparison of entorhinal cortex atrophy between dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2012;34(5-6):328-31.

    Kikuchi K, Arawaka S, Koyama S, Kimura H, Ren CH, Wada M, Kawanami T, Kurita K, Daimon M, Kawakatsu S, Kadoya T, Goto K, Kato T. An N-terminal fragment of ProSAAS (a granin-like neuroendocrine peptide precursor) is associated with tau inclusions in Pick’s disease. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2003 Aug 29;308(3):646-54. doi: 10.1016/s0006-291x(03)01391-3.PMID: 12914799

    Tanahashi H, Kawakatsu S, Kaneko M, Yamanaka H, Takahashi K, Tabira T. Sequence analysis of presenilin-1 gene mutation in Japanese Alzheimer’s disease patients. Neurosci Lett. 1996 Nov 1;218(2):139-41. doi: 10.1016/s0304-3940(96)13138-4.PMID: 8945747

    Kawakatsu S, Morinobu S, Shinohara M, Totsuka S, Kobashi K. Acetylcholinesterase activities and monoamine metabolite levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer’s diseaseBiol Psychiatry. 1990 Sep 1;28(5):387-400. doi: 10.1016/0006-3223(90)90407-s.PMID: 1698467

    Sagawa K, Kawakatsu S, Shibuya I, Oiji A, Morinobu S, Komatani A, Yazaki M, Totsuka S. Correlation of regional cerebral blood flow with performance on neuropsychological tests in schizophrenic patients. Schizophr Res. 1990 Jul-Aug;3(4):241-6. doi: 10.1016/0920-9964(90)90004-q.PMID: 2278985

    Komatani A, Yamaguchi K, Sugai Y, Takanashi T, Kera M, Shinohara M, Kawakatsu S. Assessment of demented patients by dynamic SPECT of inhaled xenon-133. J Nucl Med. 1988 Oct;29(10):1621-6.PMID: 3262723