Required research activities to overcome addiction problems in Japan

Kazutaka Ikeda¹, Soichiro Ide¹, Hiromi Takahashi-Omoe², Masabumi Minami³, Hisatsugu Miyata⁴, Mitsuo Kawato⁵, Hitoshi Okamoto⁶, Tetsuro Kikuchi⁷, Yumiko Saito⁸, Tomoaki Shirao⁹, Yuko Sekino¹⁰, Toshiya Murai¹¹, Toshihiko Matsumoto¹², Masako Iseki¹³, Yoko Nishitani¹⁴, Masahiko Sumitani¹⁵, Hidehiko Takahashi¹⁶, Shigeto Yamawaki¹⁷, Tadashi Isa¹⁸, Yoko Kamio^19
1 Addictive Substance Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
² National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
³ Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
⁵ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
⁶ Laboratory for Neural Circuit Dynamics of Decision Making, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Japan
⁷ Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokushima, Japan
⁸ Laboratory for Behavioral Neuroscience, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima, Japan
⁹ AlzMed, Inc., University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
¹⁰ Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
¹¹ Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
¹² Department of Drug Dependence Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
¹³ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
¹⁴ Department of Forensic Medicine, Kumamoto University Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto, Japan
¹⁵ Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
¹⁶ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
¹⁷ Center for Brain, Mind, and KANSEI, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
¹⁸ Department of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
¹⁹ Center for Institutional Research, Educational Development, and Learning Support, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan

Correspondence Address:
Ph.D Kazutaka Ikeda
2-1-6 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 156-8506
Japan

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

DOI: 10.4103/TPSY.TPSY_3_21