Fri. Oct 11, 2019 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Room 7 (403)

Organizer / Chair: Soichiro IDE (Addictive Substance Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan), Co-chair: Ichiro SORA (Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan), Discussant: ‌Masahiro SHIBASAKI (Department of Pharmacology, Hoshi University, Japan)

Recently, various addiction problems have spread in Asian countries, and the situation is growing serious. Addiction is a condition that results when individuals ingest an addictive substance or perform a specific action that can be pleasurable but the continuous use or act of which becomes compulsive and interferes with ordinary life responsibilities. It is very important to clarify the mechanisms underlying addiction, but there are still many unclear points. Animal studies have been crucial in understanding the biology and pathophysiology of drug addiction. In this symposium, we would like to introduce the latest knowledge about addiction by the researchers who are working on elucidating the mechanisms of addiction by animal studies. We hope that not only those who are directly involved in the clinical situation, but also basic researchers who are interested in research about decision making, function and pathology of reward systems, and behavioral pharmacology will widely participate in the symposium and discuss perspectives in animal models of addiction.