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Ohmura Yu

オオムラ ユウ | Ohmura Yu
Affiliation and department:
Job title: 講師
Homepage URL  (1): http://kaken.nii.ac.jp/d/r/80597659.ja.html
Research field  (1): Psychiatry
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (13):
  • 2021 - 2024 Testing the "serotonin hypothesis of depression" by in vivo genome editing
  • 2021 - 2024 Testing the hypothesis that impaired hippocampal function and increased depressive-like behavior are due to reduced serotonin synthesis in the median raphe nucleus
  • 2019 - 2021 セロトニン神経系の光操作・観察によるモデルベース的意思決定の脳内機構解明
  • 2018 - 2021 Elucidation of the serotonergic pathways underlying emotional functions using optogenetics and genome editing
  • 2016 - 2019 Elucidation of neural mechanisms underlying fear memory using DREADD
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Papers (61):
  • Hiroyuki Kawai, Youcef Bouchekioua, Naoya Nishitani, Kazuhei Niitani, Shoma Izumi, Hinako Morishita, Chihiro Andoh, Yuma Nagai, Masashi Koda, Masako Hagiwara, et al. Median raphe serotonergic neurons projecting to the interpeduncular nucleus control preference and aversion. Nature Communications. 2022. 13. 1
  • Hitomi Sasamori, Toshiaki Asakura, Chiaki Sugiura, Youcef Bouchekioua, Naoya Nishitani, Masaaki Sato, Takayuki Yoshida, Miwako Yamasaki, Akira Terao, Masahiko Watanabe, et al. Behavioral characteristics of dopamine D5 receptor knockout mice. Scientific Reports. 2022. 12. 1
  • Youcef Bouchekioua, Mao Nebuka, Hitomi Sasamori, Naoya Nishitani, Chiaki Sugiura, Masaaki Sato, Mitsuhiro Yoshioka, Yu Ohmura. Serotonin 5-HT2C receptor knockout in mice attenuates fear responses in contextual or cued but not compound context-cue fear conditioning. Translational psychiatry. 2022. 12. 1. 58-58
  • Yu Ohmura, Youcef Bouchekioua, Hiroyuki Kawai, Kazuki Nagayasu, Shuji Kaneko. Increased neuronal activity of serotonin neurons in the median raphe nucleus attenuates reward-related consummatory responses and facial expression. Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society. 2022. 96. 2-B
  • Youcef Bouchekioua, Naoya Nishitani, Yu Ohmura. Conditioned Lick Suppression: Assessing Contextual, Cued, and Context-cue Compound Fear Responses Independently of Locomotor Activity in Mice. BIO-PROTOCOL. 2022. 12. 23
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Education (4):
  • 2005 - 2009 Hokkaido University
  • 2005 - 2005 Hokkaido University
  • 2003 - 2005 Hokkaido University
  • 1999 - 2003 Kanazawa University
Professional career (1):
  • 医学博士 (北海道大学)
Work history (4):
  • 2018/06 - 北海道大学 医学(系)研究科(研究院) 講師
  • 2011/04 - 2018/05 北海道大学 医学研究科 助教
  • 2010/06 - 2011/03 北海道大学 医学研究科 特任助教
  • 2009/06 - 2010/05 ミシガン大学 博士研究員
Awards (3):
  • 2021/07 - The Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology Young Investigator Award 2021
  • 2015/09 - 日本神経精神薬理学会 若手優秀発表賞 光遺伝学による背側/正中縫線核セロトニン神経制御は不安、うつ、衝動性に部位依存的に影響を与える
  • 2013/03 - 日本薬理学会 第86回日本薬理学会 年会優秀発表賞 光遺伝学によるセロトニン神経活動の操作と不安関連行動
Association Membership(s) (3):
THE JAPAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY ,  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY ,  THE JAPANESE PHARMACOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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