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Nov 2022. [Conference] Watanabe presented our recent work in SfN 2022 @ San Diego [link].

Sep 2022. [Grant] Dr Murai was awarded a Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up from JSPS. 　

July 2022. [Talk] Takamitsu Watanabe made a symposium talk at Neuro 2022, an annual meeting of Japan Neuroscience Society, in Okinawa Japan. 

April 2022. [People] Dr Shota Murai joined our lab.

March 2022. [Talk] Takamitsu Watanabe talked about brain dynamics in neuropsychiatric conditions in a symposium in the 95th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Pharmacological Society.

Jan 2022. [Public talk] We will talk on the origin of intelligence in a public symposium (Japanese only. Get a zoom link). 

Oct 2021. [Paper] A new work has been now online in eLife [link]: Causal roles of prefrontal cortex during spontaneous perceptual switching are determined by brain state dynamics.

Oct 2021. [Grant] We received a grant (Transformative Research A. Public call) from JSPS. 

Oct 2021. [Public talk] A video of the public lecture on brain state dynamics and its intervention has been now out in YouTube (only in Japanese). [link]

Jul 2021. [Paper] A new paper was out in The European Journal of Neuroscience: Modelling state‐transition dynamics in resting‐state brain signals by the hidden Markov and Gaussian mixture models. Link. 

Jan 2021. [Member] Daichi Watanabe (UC Berkeley) has joined in our team as an intern (untill July 2021). 

Dec 2020. [Award] We recieved a US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) HLGC Catalyst Award.  

Dec 2020. [Grant] A collaboration grant was awarded from MEXT (with Showa University). 

Nov 2020. [Award] A reseach grant was awarded from Astellas foundation. 

Aug 2020. [Paper] A new paper was out in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications: A numerical study on efficient jury size. Link

June 2020. [Paper] A new optogenetics method paper was out in iScience: Off-peak 594-nm light surpasses on-peak 532-nm light in silencing distant ArchT-expressing neurons in vivo. (Setsuie et al., 2020)

April 2020. [Misc] Our lab was lanuched in UTokyo IRCN. 

Feb 2020. [Paper] A new paper on the association between the criticality in the brain dynamics and human intelligence has been now out in Communications Biology: (Ezaki et al., 2020) 

July 2019. [Award] Selected as a delegate for The Interstellar Initiative (New York Academy of Sciences & AMED Japan). 

June 2019. [Paper] A new paper out in J Neurosci: "A neuroanatomical substrate linking perceptual stability to cognitive rigidity in autism". Press release (E) Press release (J)

April 2019. [Grant] Awarded a Graint-in-aid for Scientific Research (B) from JSPS. 

Feb 2019. [Paper] A new paper out  in eLife: "Atypical intrinsic neural timescale in autism". RIKEN press release Insight article