About the Authors

Motoko Maekawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Motoko Maekawa, Noriko Takashima

Affiliations Department of Developmental Neurobiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, Laboratory for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan

Noriko Takashima

Contributed equally to this work with: Motoko Maekawa, Noriko Takashima

Affiliation Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences (MITILS), Tokyo, Japan

Miho Matsumata

Affiliations Department of Developmental Neurobiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Kawaguchi, Japan

Shiro Ikegami

Affiliation Saitama Institute of Technology, Saitama, Japan

Masanori Kontani

Affiliation Institute for Health Care Science, Suntory Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Yoshinobu Hara

Affiliations Department of Developmental Neurobiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Kawaguchi, Japan

Hiroshi Kawashima

Affiliation Institute for Health Care Science, Suntory Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Yuji Owada

Affiliation Department of Organ Anatomy, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Yoshinobu Kiso

Affiliation Institute for Health Care Science, Suntory Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan

Takeo Yoshikawa

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan

Kaoru Inokuchi

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences (MITILS), Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

Noriko Osumi

osumi@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Developmental Neurobiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Kawaguchi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M Maekawa KI NO. Performed the experiments: M Maekawa NT M Matsumata SI YH. Analyzed the data: M Maekawa NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK HK YK YO. Wrote the paper: M Maekawa TY KI NO. Assays for neurogenesis: M Maekawa. Administration and measurement of PUFAs: M Maekawa NT M Matsumata, MK YH HK YK. Behavioral tests: NT SI.