Kenji Hashimoto
Professor, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Chiba University Center for Forensic Mental Health
Key Impact
He is a leading Japanese psychiatric researcher whose work on ketamine, arketamine, and related biomarkers has helped shape modern rapid-acting antidepressant research.
Background & Research
Kenji Hashimoto is a professor at Chiba University’s Center for Forensic Mental Health, where he leads research in clinical neuroscience, biological psychiatry, and neuropsychopharmacology. His work has focused heavily on ketamine and its enantiomer arketamine, including preclinical and clinical studies on rapid antidepressant effects and predictive biomarkers. He has published extensively in the field and is widely cited in ketamine/psychedelic-adjacent psychiatric research.
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