Abstract
Biological research that is being actively conducted from various directions is rapidly elucidating the pathophysiology of psychiatric diseases. Many postmortem brain studies have recently been performed to verify the findings of the above studies. For such postmortem brain researches, a systematic psychiatric brain bank that can provide brain samples suitable for study is essential. Since 1997 we have managed the systematic postmortem brain bank on psychiatric diseases specializes in schizophrenia for the first time in Japan in order to understand and cure psychiatric diseases and currently maintains 62 brain tissue resources. Since 2016, Japan Brain Bank Net (JBBN) has been organized, and brain banks in Japan are being networked nationwide in order to meet the wishes of nationwide pre‐registered donors. In this article, we show the practices of psychiatric postmortem brain bank in Japan and the outlines the current status of psychiatric disease studies using postmortem brain samples.
