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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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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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