Academic Staff and Fellows

OTSUKA Airi: Lecturer; Department/Life Science

Social stress is a form of mental stress associated with human relationships that underlies the pathogenesis of mental disorders such as depression. We examine the effect of nutritional approach to social stress and explain the mechanism of reducing psychosocial stress by food.

Research Area	Nutrition, Food Functional Science, Physiology, Neuroscience
Selected Publications	(1)Social-defeat stress exposure during pregnancy induces abnormalities in spontaneous activity, sociality, and resilience to stress in offspring of mice. Behav Brain Res.2025 Mar 5:480:115367. (2) Effect of the dietary intake of fish oil on psycho-social behavioral disorder caused by social-defeat stress. Physiol Behav. 2022 ; 254 (3)Sufficient intake of high-fat food attenuates stress-induced social avoidance behavior.Life Sci. 2019 Feb 15;219:219-230.
Research and Achievements	04_otsuka_airi.pdf
Education (Undergraduate Course)	Tokushima University
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date	Sufficient intake of high-fat food attenuates stress-induced social avoidance behavior. Tokushima University. 03/2019

Laboratory of Nutrition and Health science

E-mail	airi（at）life.kindai.ac.jp Note that this e-mail address has replaced the "@" with "(at)" to prevent spam. When e-mailing, replace the "(at)" with "@".