Manabu Ikeda

Manabu Ikeda received the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University, Suita, Japan, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. He has been the Chair and a Professor with the Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University, since 2016. He has engaged with anthropology, general psychiatry, neuropsychology, neuropathology, and old age psychiatry with Tokyo University, Osaka University, the University of Cambridge, and the Ehime University School of Medicine. He was the Chair and a Professor with the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, from 2007 to 2016. His current research interests include the neural basis of BPSD, late onset psychosis, and trials for pharmacotherapy and non-pharmacological interventions. He serves as a Board Member for many academic societies, such as the Neuropsychology Association of Japan (President), from 2019 to 2023, Japanese Psychogeriatric Society (President), since 2018, Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, Asian Society Against Dementia, and the International Psychogeriatric Association (President), since 2021.