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

Brain Refreshing: Why the Dreaming Phase Matters

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

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Keeping time: understanding the master clock in the brain

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Information on TV Broadcast “Saturday Plus” (TBS)

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The 45th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep Research will be held in coming September

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Potential Indicator for Obesity Risk Detected during Sleep

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Information on TV Broadcast “Galileo X”(BS Fuji)

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Review video of the 11th WPI-IIIS Symposium now available!

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The first InCOR-JSPS Joint International Symposium

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The 45th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep Research is being held in Yokohama

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Sevoflurane Improves Sleep Alteration in Response to Inflammation

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Information on TV Broadcast “Villain’s statement (iibun)” (NHK Educational TV)

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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

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