Dr. Motoaki Nakamura

Dr. Nakamura graduated from Nippon Medical School in 1996. He gained experience in general hospital psychiatry for adult and geriatric patients at Tokyo Metropolitan hospitals. In 2000, he joined the Department of Psychiatry at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (currently, Institute of Science Tokyo) Hospital, where he earned a Doctor of Medicine (PhD) degree from the university's graduate school. From 2003, Dr. Nakamura worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, focusing on brain MRI research. Since 2007, he has been employed at the Kanagawa Psychiatric Center, where he established a stress care medical unit and served as Director of the Clinical Research Division and Director of the Community Liaison Division. In October 2017, Dr. Nakamura was appointed Deputy Director of the Medical Institute of Developmental Disabilities Research, Showa Medical University. His work involves addressing the diverse needs of individuals with mental illness requiring support from adolescence through adulthood and into old age, combining approaches from both social and neuroscience perspectives.


Current Position:

  • Deputy Director of the Medical Institute of Developmental Disabilities Research, Showa Medical University
  • Deputy Representative Organizer of the Japanese Clinical TMS Society

Focus of Interest:

  • Clinical Psychiatry
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
  • Neuroimaging
  • Electroencephalography
  • Acupuncture

Education:

  • M.D., Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan (1996)
  • Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan (2004)

Career:

  • 2017-present Deputy Director (Associate Professor), the Medical Institute of Developmental Disabilities Research, Showa Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2014-2017 Division Manager, Kanagawa Psychiatric Center, Yokohama, Japan
  • 2007-2014 Chief Physician, Kanagawa Psychiatric Center, Yokohama, Japan
  • 2003-2007 Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  • 2000-2003 Clinical Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1998-2000 Resident, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1996-1998 Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Geriatric Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Organization Membership:

  • 1999-present Member of the Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • (2014-present Member of Brain Stimulation Committee)
  • 2003-present Member of American Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP)
  • 2003-present Member of Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
  • 2006-present Member of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology
  • (2013-present Member of the ECT and rTMS Review Committee)
  • 2013-present Member of the Japan Neuroscience Society
  • 2015-present Member of Clinical TMS Society
  • 2017-present Member of International Society for Autism Research (INSAR)

Certification:

  • 1996 Japanese Medical License Registration
  • 2002 Designated psychiatrist by the Japanese Ministry of Welfare and Labor
  • 2008 Medical Specialist certified by the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology
  • 2010 Advising Psychiatrist designated by the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology

Special Honor:

  • 2005 Neal Alan Mysell Award, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

  • 2005 NIMH Young Investigator Award, International Congress on Schizophrenia Research
  • 2006 Young Scientist Award, 13th Biennial Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia Research
  • 2008 Official Commendation by Kanagawa Prefectural Governor
  • 2010 Research Award, Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University