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Keynote Lecture 2

Mind the Gap: At the Interface of Clinical Psychiatry and Neuroscience

AKIRA SAWA

Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center
Departments of Psychiatry, Mental Health, and Neuroscience,
Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health

In this century, marked advances in human genetics and brain imaging technology have finally
allowed us to approach fundamental questions in psychiatry, even those in clinical psychiatry, by
utilizing biological science. As of 2014, discussion on the advantages and limitations in operational
diagnostic criteria, such as DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, in clinical
psychiatry is becoming even more important. In contrast to most of the medical areas in which
multi-disciplinal approaches are successful, factionalism augmented by mind-brain problem or
mind-body problem has hampered the progress of psychiatry. Here I discuss the importance of
building integrative perspectives of psychiatry, in particular a well-balanced standpoint at the interface
of clinical psychiatry and neuroscience.