CREST-Brain Imaging Team

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2015

• Feb 9, 2015
  Our review paper entitled "Researches for sleep and consciousness with simultaneous EEG/fMRI" has been published in Annual Review 2015 "Nerve".

2014

• Jan 7, 2014
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, published a review paper entitled "Measurement of the brain" in Japanese Psychological Review. Vol. 56 No. 3, 2013.
• May 9, 2014
  Our joint paper entitled "Network-dependent modulation of brain activity during sleep" has been published on online version of Neuroimage.
• May 18, 2014
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, delivered a lecture entitled "Measurement of the brain" in 32nd annual meeting of Japanese Society for Physiological Psychology and Psychophysiology.
• Jun 2, 2014
  We were interviewed about resting-state fMRI and Default Mode Network by "Science ZERO", a science TV program. This program will be aired on June 22 (23:30-24:00) at NHK Educational TV.
• Aug 22, 2014
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, was interviewed about dream and brain activity during sleep by "Oshiete Gakkai", a science TV program on NHK.
• Sep 29, 2014
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, made a presentation entitled "spontaneous brain acitivity during sleep: simultaneous EEG and fMRI"
• Satoru Miyauchi was interviewed about development of the method for measuring visual field by subjects' saccadic eye movements. This has been introduced in NICT NEWS September No.444.

2013

• Jan 24, 2013
  Our joint paper entitled "Efficiency of a "Small-World" Brain Network Depends on Consciousness Level: A Resting-State fMRI Study" has been published on online version of Cerebral Cortex.
• Feb 7, 2013
  We annouced publiation and brief overview of our joint paper entitled "Efficiency of a "Small-World" Brain Network Depends on Consciousness Level: A Resting-State fMRI Study" to the press. This paper has been published on online version of Cerebral Cortex at January 24.
• Mar 14, 2013
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, will deliver a lecture entitled "Dreaming and Drowsy brain: Simultaneous EEG/fMRI recording for sleep research" on March 29 at CIVI Kita-Umeda Training Center. For more details click hear (Japanese text only).
• Mar 24, 2013
  Our joint paper entitlede "Efficiency of a "Small-World" Brain Network Depends on Consciousness Level: A Resting-State fMRI Study" were reported in Yomiuri Shinbun.
• Mar 29, 2013
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, delivered a lecture entitled "Dreaming and Drowsy brain: Simultaneous EEG/fMRI recording for sleep research" in 199th ordinary meeting of AC Net.
• May 27, 2013
  We made a presentation entitled "Neural activity accompanied by rapid eye movements during REM sleep in the human brainstem: an fMRI study" in 5th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (DuCog 2013).
• Jun 27, 2013
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, will make a presentation entitled "Simultaneous EEG/fMRI recording for sleep research" in the 15th Congress of Japan Human Brain Mapping Society.
• Jul 6, 2013
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, made a presentation entitled "Simultaneous EEG/fMRI recording for sleep research" in the 15th Congress of Japan Human Brain Mapping Society.
• Nov 27, 2013
  We made a presentation entitled "Neural substrate of rapid eye movements during REM sleep in humans: Comparison of cortical activation patterns among REMs and several types of waking saccades" in Neuroscience 2013.

2012

• Feb 23, 2012
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, will deliver a lecture entitled "Seeing sleeping Brain" on March 11 at Keio University.
• May 13, 2012
  We were interviewed about our fMRI study of sleep by The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE. This will be published in August.
• May 15, 2012
  We will make presentations about our fMRI study of sleep in second conference on sleep research on July 5 at Nagoya University.
• Jun 28, 2012
  We made presentations about our fMRI study of sleep in the 37th annual meeting of Japanese Soeciety of Sleep Research.
• Jul 1, 2012
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, delivered a lecture entitled "simultaneous EEG/fMRI study for brain activities during sleep" at Tokyo Medical University.
• Jul 5, 2012
  We made presentations entitled "simultaneous EEG/fMRI recording and complex network analysis" and "brain activities accompanying rapid eye movements druing REM sleep" at Nagoya University.
• Jul 26, 2012
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, will deliver a lecture entitled "Seeing sleeping brain: Dream as the ultimate virtual reality produced by the brain" on July 28 at the open house of our institute.
• Jul 30, 2012
  We were interviewed about our fMRI study of sleep by BS Asahi. This will be broadcasted on August 5.
• Aug 5, 2012
  Our sleep fMRI study were reported in Asahi Shimbun GLOBE and BS Asahi "Ima Sekaiwa".
• Sep 19, 2012
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, will deliver a lecture entitled "Eyes follow dream images: brain activities accompanied with rapid eye movments during REM sleep" on September 30 at Tohoku University.
• Dec 2, 2012
  Satoru Miyauchi, the leader of our team, delivered a lecture entitled "Seeing a Dreaming Brain - Brain Activation Accompanying Rapid Eye Movements During REM sleep" in the 7th Asian Sleep Research Society Congress.

2011

• Jan 2011
  Our review article entitled "fMRI studies for spontaneous and evoked brain activities during sleep" has been published in Japanese Journal of Sleep Medicine. Vol.4 No.4, 2010.
• Feb 2011
  Our research article entitled "Connectivity pattern changes in default-mode network with deep non-REM and REM sleep" has been published in Neuroscience Research. Vol.69 No.4, 2011. Our result was chosen as the cover illustration of this issue.
• Jun 4, 2011
  At 26th Annual Meeting of Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society, we made a presentation entitled "Resting-state fMRI: investigations of spontaneous brain activities".
• Sep 1, 2011
  At the 13th Congress of Japan Human Brain Mapping Society, we made a presentation entitled "The activation of the pons accompanying rapid eye movements during REM sleep: a simultaneous EEG/fMRI study".
• Oct 22, 2011
  At the 16th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cognitive Neuroscience, we made a presentation entitled "Simultaneous EEG/fMRI recording and resting-state fMRI for investigation of brain state".
• Nov 3, 2011
  We were interviewed about our fMRI study of sleep by "Galileo X", a science TV program. This program will be aired on November 27 (8:00-8:30 a.m.) at BS Fuji.

2010

• Jan 2010
  Our research paper entitled "Close relationship between fMRI signals and transient heart rate changes accompanying K-complex: Simultaneous EEG/fMRI study" has been published in Japanese Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology.
• Apr 2010
  Satoru Miyauchi, leader of our team, has translated an article "The Brain's Dark Energy (by M. E. Raichle)" for the Japanese version of SCIENTIFIC AMERICA.
• Sep 2010
  At annual meeting of the Japanese Neuroscience Society, we made a presentation entitled "Influence of convolution of the hemodynamic response function on identification of alpha-BOLD correlations".
• Oct 2010
  Our review article entitled "functional connectivity of spontaneous brain activity" has been published in Clinical Neuroscience. Vol.28 No.10, 2010.
• Oct 21, 2010
  At CREST area debriefing session 2010, Yoshichika Yoshioka (Osaka University) reporded recent accomplishments of our research project.
• Oct 30, 2010
  At 29th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, we made a presentation entitled "The reticular activating system is associated with spontaneous fluctuations of alpha rhythm: a simultaneous EEG/fMRI study". IFCN Fellowship was presented to Shigeyuki Kan, the first author of this abstract.
• Nov 1, 2010
  At 29th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, we made a presentation entitled "fMRI activation time-locked to rapid eye movements during REM sleep".
• Nov 14, 2010
  At annual meeting of SfN (Neuroscience 2010), we made a presentation entitled "Activation of the pontine reticular formation accompanying rapid eye movements during REM sleep: A high-resolution fMRI study".

2009

• Jan 2009
  Our review article entitled "functional magnetic resonance imaging for sleep studies" has been published in Sleep Research (ed. The Japanese Society of Sleep Research).
• Mar 2009
  Our review article entitled "functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for brain science" has been published in The CELL. Vol.41 No.4, 2009.
• May 29, 2009
  At annual meeting of JHBM, we made presentations entitled "The fluctuation of brain network corresponding to the fluctuation of arousal level within a relatively short time" and "The influence of heart rate fluctuation on fMRI signal is localized to periventricular areas".
• Sep 2009
  At annual meeting of the Japanese Neuroscience Society, we made presentations entitled "Rapid eye movements and waking saccades share the same brain network with different characteristics" and "Sleep-specific relationship between heart rate fluctuation and functional magnetic resonance imaging signal across cortical areas".
• Oct 2009
  At annual meeting of SfN (Neuroscience 2009), we made presentations entitled "Heart rate fluctuation affects fMRI signals across the cerebral cortices during REM and light non-REM sleep, but not during deep non-REM sleep" and "Alterations in brain network corresponding to the fluctuations in arousal level within a short time period".
• Nov 24, 2009
  At CREST area debriefing session 2009, Yoshichika Yoshioka (Osaka University) reporded recent accomplishments of our research project.

2008

• Jan 2008
  Our research paper entitled "Eye Position Estimation During Sleep Using Infrared Video in Functional MRI" has been published in Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics. (Collaboration with Dr. Shyoji Kobashi at University of Hyogo)
• Jun 19. 2008
  At Human Brain Mapping 2008, we made a presentation entitled "Dynamic switching of thalamocortical network with transition of human states between NREM and REM sleep".
• Oct 2008
  Our research project has been introduced in KARC Front Vol. 13.
• Sep 24, 2008
  At annual meeting of JNNS, we made a presentation entitled "Spontaneous BOLD fluctuation analysis based on hierarchical clustering technique identifies REM/NREM neural network".
• Oct 2, 2008
  Our research paper entitled "Human brain activity time-locked to rapid eye movements during REM sleep" has been published in Experimental Brain Research. (open access)
• Oct 30, 2008
  At CREST area debriefing session 2008, Yoshichika Yoshioka (Osaka University) reporded recent accomplishments of our research project.
• Nov 13, 2008
  At annual meeting of JSCN, we made a presentation entitled "Simultaneous EEG/fMRI recording for studying human sleep: Relationship between K-complex and cerebral perfusion autoregulation".
• Nov 17, 2008
  At annual meeting of SfN (Neuroscience 2008), we made a presentation entitled "Exploring changes in the brain network related to human sleep states using graph theory".
• Dec 2008
  Our research project has been introduced in NICT News No. 375.

2007

• Mar 2007
  Our Descriptive literaturet has been published in Biophilia 2(4): 20-25 (2007)
• Apr 2007
  Our review article entitled "simultaneous EEG/fMRI recording and styding sleep" has been published in Cognitive Neuroscience Vol. 9 No. 1.
• Nov 21, 2007
  At CREST area debriefing session 2007, Yoshichika Yoshioka (Osaka University) reporded recent accomplishments of our research project.
• Nov 22, 2007
  At SEIRIKEN KENKYU-KAI "fMRI - a tool for neuroscience research", we made a presentation entitled "Dynamic switching of thalamocortical network in association with transition between REM and NREM sleep".

2006

• Jan 2006
  Our research paper entitled "Application of artificial neural network to fMRI regression analysis." has been published in Neuroimage, 29(2):396-408 (2006).
• Sep 14, 2006
  At HBM2006, we made a presentation entitled "Brain activation and its time course accompanying raped eye movements during REM sleep revealed by simultanoeus polysomnographic recording with fMRI".
• Jul 20, 2006
  At annual meeting of JNS, we made a presentation entitled "Relationship between the EEG rhythm and BOLD signals".
• Jul 22, 2006
  Our research project co-hosted CREST meeting with the study group of magnetic resonance metabolism.
• Jul 26, 2006
  At 4th symposium of Advanced Medical Science Center of Iwate Medical University, we made a presentation entitled "Seeing the dreaming brain: Exploring brain acitivity that accompanied by Rapid eye movements during REM sleep with simultaneous EEG/fMRI recording".
• Sep 2006
  Our research project has been intrduced in NICT NEWS (No.366).
• Oct 23, 2006
  At CREST area debriefing session 2006, Yoshichika Yoshioka (Iwate Medical University) reporded recent accomplishments of our research project.