Dec 2024 [Poster] [Talk] Dr Murai and Watanabe will join and make presentations in IRCN-CNR-Scuola Normale Symposium in Pisa, Italy [Press release (Jpn)].
Dec 2024 [People] Professor Sanes (Brown Univ) has come back and will stay at the IRCN until the mid December.
Nov 2024 [Talk] Watanabe visited a lab of Dr Bahador Bahrami in LMU at Munich, Germany. Thank you, Bahador!
Oct 2024 [Talk] Watanabe made an oral presentation at SfN annual meeting at Chicago, US.
July 2024 [Paper] A new paper—led by Dr Murai with the great help of Professor Sanes (Brown Univ) and Dr Mano (NCNP in Japan)—has been out in Brain Communications. This resting-state fMRI study found that non-memory symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are attributable to the unstable activity of the default mode network, which is induced by the disturbance of the left parietal neural activity and anatomical atrophy. [link]. [Press release (Jpn)] [Press release (Eng)].
June 2024 [Paper] A new paper has been published in the European Journal of Neuroscience. This paper shows the reliability of energy landscape analysis. [link].
May 2024. [People] Prof Sanes (Brown Univ) has come back!
Mar 2024. [Paper] A new paper led by Dr Islam and Prof Masuda in Buffalo University has been out in BMC Neurosci. This paper shows that energy landscape analysis for human fMRI data can survive test-retest examination. [link]
Nov 2023. [Poster] Dr Murai will present his latest work on the intrinsic neural timescale at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in Washington DC in the US.
Sep 2023. [Talk] Watanabe talked about brain state dynamics seen in CDKL5 disorder at CDKL5 Asia in Tokyo, Japan.
Aug 2023. [People] Prof Sanes has finished his sabbatical here. Thank you for coming and joining our lab!!
Aug 2023. [Talk] Drs Murai and Watanabe talked at the annual meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society in Miyagi, Japan.
Aug 2023. [Preprint] A new preprint has been out on comparisons of the models to infer brain states from resting-state fMRI data. [link]
July 2023. [Paper] A new paper, which was led by Mr Daichi Watanabe (UC Berkeley), has been now out in eNeuro: ASD+ADHD comorbid condition is not a simple overlap of autism and ADHD. [link][Press release]
June 2023. [Preprint] A new preprint has been out in medRxiv. We reported that the left angular gyrus appears to be a key brain region whose neural atrophy and resultant unstable neural activity disturb the activity of default mode network and lead to some symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. [link]
June 2023. [People] Ms Horikoshi has joined our team as a research assistant!
May 2023. [Preprint] A new preprint on the reliability of energy landscape analysis was now out as a preprint in arXiv. This work was done through collaboration with Masuda lab at SUNY Baffalo [arXiv].
March 2023. [Paper] A new review paper by Watanabe was out in Folia pharmacologica Japonica.
Jan 2023. [Paper] Congratulations! Dr Murai's paper has been published in J Comp Physiology [link]
Jan 2023. [Talk] Watanabe talked on the control of global brain state dynamics at IRCN-iPlasticity International Symposium.
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