Solving the mystery of sleep

Premier institute aiming to elucidate mechanisms of sleep/wake regulation
and the function of the sleep by conducting basic to translational research

Information on TV Broadcast “Tetsuko no Heya (Tetsuko’s room)”(TV Asahi)

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Information on TV Broadcast “Jonetsu Tairiku a ‘A continent of passion’” (MBS)

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Director, Dr. Masashi Yanagisawa Receives “Breakthrough Prize”

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Information on TV Broadcast “Kazu to manabu”(Nippon TV)

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Information on TV Broadcast “Hayashi Osamu’s Imadesho!” (TV Asahi)

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Dr. Arisa Hirano has been awarded “Tsukuba Encouragement Award (Young Researcher Category).”

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Dr. Takeshi Sakurai has been awarded “Science and Technology award (Research category) by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology”

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Dr. Takeshi Sakurai has been awarded Tsukuba Prize

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Professor YANAGISAWA Masashi Receives Clarivate Citation Laureates

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Professor Masashi Yanagisawa was awarded at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA, USA

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Director’s Message

We aim to solve one of the biggest black boxes of today’s neuroscience

Director Masashi Yanagisawa

Our discovery of the neuropeptide orexin and its prominent role in sleep/wake regulation has generated a highly active research fields in neurobiology of sleep and metabolism. However, the fundamental governing principle for the regulation of sleep pressure, e.g., (1)the question of what the neural substrate for “sleepiness” is, (2) We have to sleepy remains a mystery. We focus on sleep neurobiology, and aim to solve one of the biggest mysteries in today’s neuroscience.

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[consultation(sleepy mouse)]Q&A:about sleep

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Why do we dream?

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The function of dreaming is still not well underst...

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Are there short sleepers?

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Short sleepers are quite rare, much rarer than peo...

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What is narcolepsy?

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Narcolepsy is also known as the “dozing-off diseas...

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What sort of social majors have been taken for sleep improvement?

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As an example, Professor Mitsuo Hayashi of Hiroshi...

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筑波大学 国際統合睡眠医科学研究機構

INTERNATIONAL

INSTITUTE FOR

INTERGRATIVE

SLEEP MEDICINE