Yoshifumi Mori

Background

Dr. Mori started his scientific career by molecular imaging with a two-photon microscopy using fluorescent probes in his undergraduate era, and was trained in stem cell, (epi)genomes, gene manipulation, and physiology to obtain a PhD (medicine). In the first postdoctoral period in Kyoto University, he applied his wide range of biological skills for establishing a systemic methodology to compare to compare in vivo and postmortem human MRI with histology, facilitating an understanding of psychiatric disorders in a trans-scale way. For a better biological understanding of a psychiatric phenomenon ‘dissociation,’ he started the second postdoctoral life in Spinoza Centre, where he is learning advanced 7T MRI scanning techniques and computational cognitive neuroscience.

Dissociative (identity) disorder

He had a chance encounter with a certain patient of dissociative disorder and her family in the clinical training as a medical undergraduate. Then he took an elective course in psychiatry, neurology, forensic medicine, fostering his academic curiosity and sense of mission to clarify the mechanism. His ambition is, even if in limited aspects, to create an animal model based on human neuroimaging results. He is looking forwards to talk with people from different fields to broaden his perspective and seek for potential collaboration.