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Hiroshi Yamada, Associate Professor
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The Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Lab conducts neuroscience research using monkeys, aiming to understand how human values arise from the brain. In neuroeconomics, a field that combines neuroscience and microeconomics, the lab studies how the brain works when judging whether things are good or bad. Humans and macaque monkeys, a model animal, perform cognitive behavioral tasks, and the lab examines how the brain makes value judgments depending on the degree of thirst or hunger. By manipulating brain activity and examining its effect on judgment, the lab aims to advance the understanding of depression.
Tadachika Koganezawa, Associate Professor
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The Neurophysiology Lab studies the regulation of blood circulation and respiratory movements in order to clarify how the brain maintains homeostasis in the body. If the brain's control of blood circulation does not work properly, it can cause serious cardiovascular diseases, so the lab works to clarify how this control actually operates. Using rodent preparations, mainly with electrophysiological methods, the lab examines in detail the brain centers that regulate circulation and breathing. The lab is recruiting graduate students to conduct research together, and also accepts undergraduate students for graduation research.
Takeshi Sakurai, Professor
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The Molecular Behavioral Physiology Lab studies sleep and wakefulness, feeding behavior, the circadian clock, and emotion and affect through the actions of neuropeptides in the brain. Using genetically modified mice, the lab investigates from the molecular and cellular levels while aiming to understand functions at the level of the whole organism. It also works to clarify the functions of neuropeptides such as orexin, and studies neurons that put mice into a hibernation-like state. On the lab's website, it is introduced as the "Sakurai/Hirano Lab," a lab of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS).
Katsuyasu Sakurai, Associate Professor
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The Adaptive Physiology Lab studies how information about internal mental and physical states, and about external circumstances and stimuli, is processed in the brain. Living organisms adapt, both consciously and unconsciously, to their internal states and to external circumstances and stimuli. For example, food that goes unnoticed when one is full draws more attention and desire when one is hungry. On the lab's website, the lab is introduced under the name "Liu/Sakurai Lab."
Mitsuaki Kashiwagi, Assistant Professor
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The lab of Assistant Professor Mitsuaki Kashiwagi uses mice to study the neural circuits in the brain that generate REM sleep and the mechanisms that regulate them. Mammalian sleep consists of REM sleep and non-REM sleep, and the mechanisms and functions of REM sleep are considered to be less well understood than those of non-REM sleep. Assistant Professor Kashiwagi and colleagues have identified a brainstem neural circuit that plays an extremely important role in inducing REM sleep, and they are advancing their research starting from this circuit. The lab is also trying to clarify how the cerebral cortex becomes active during REM sleep, using manipulation of neural circuits and imaging.
Shun Nakajima, Project Associate Professor
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The Digital Behavioral Science Lab combines cognitive behavioral therapy with generative AI and the latest technologies, aiming to make mental health support easy for everyone to use and to spread it throughout society. The lab conducts research that integrates clinical psychology, medicine, and information science, and its researchers include people qualified as clinical psychologists, physicians, and nurses. The lab also uses sensing devices that measure gaze, skin potential, and other signals to capture, from multiple angles (multimodally), the mental and physical changes that occur during cognitive behavioral therapy. Graduate students are accepted through the Basic Psychological Science subprogram of the Degree Program in Psychology. The lab does not provide guidance for clinical psychologist training courses.
Shoi Shi, Associate Professor
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The Shi-Iino Lab uses mice and ants to study biological phenomena including the sleep-wake cycle, learning and decision-making, and phenotypic diversification. In mice, the lab investigates the minimal molecular and neural units responsible for sleep and wakefulness, and seeks to determine how well conserved they are by comparing them with other species. In ants, which are social insects, the lab examines the process by which genetically uniform individuals diversify their phenotypes through acquired changes. The lab also uses data science and mathematical models to search for the principles underlying complex biological phenomena.
Sakiko Honjoh, Assistant Professor
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The Honjoh Lab uses mice to study the mechanisms and functions of sleep. Its goal is to answer the fundamental question of why sleep is necessary, even though a sleeping animal cannot protect itself from external enemies and cannot study. The lab focuses in particular on non-REM sleep, the deep sleep that accounts for 80% of sleep. To join as a student, one must enroll in a graduate school at the University of Tsukuba; undergraduate students can take part as part-time research assistants.
Kenji Irie, Professor
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The Molecular and Cellular Biology Lab uses budding yeast, a eukaryotic model organism, to elucidate the regulatory mechanisms of biological phenomena, aiming to contribute to medicine and healthcare. The lab works on post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression, the signaling mechanisms that control the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response, and the mechanisms of gamete formation. Undergraduate students can join through graduation research in the College of Medical Sciences and the College of Biological Sciences, or through laboratory training in the College of Medicine. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Irie Lab."
Makoto Kobayashi, Professor
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The Molecular Developmental Biology Lab seeks to understand biological phenomena such as development, cell differentiation, disease, and aging through how genes function (gene expression). Its central focus is the mechanisms that determine cell fate and the mechanisms that respond to stress. For its research, the lab uses zebrafish, a fish that is amenable to genetic approaches and from which large numbers of individuals can be readily obtained. The lab's website also introduces it under the name "Kobayashi Lab."
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