Takamitsu Watanabe
@takamitsuw.bsky.social
Researcher on anything interesting, psychiatrist and professor at WPI-IRCN, UTokyo
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Nature research paper: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation
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A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial histology of five human half brains, and which can be used to automatically segment brain MRI scans into 333 regions.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Nature research paper: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation
go.nature.com/4nDj2di
go.nature.com/4nDj2di
Our newest preprint, led by Dr Murai, is out: cortico-subcortical alignment of intrinsic neural timescale seems to be a key for accurate speech recognition in noise in humans. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Our newest preprint, led by Dr Murai, is out: cortico-subcortical alignment of intrinsic neural timescale seems to be a key for accurate speech recognition in noise in humans. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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University of Tokyo IRCN Symposium Comes to Harvard 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social
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University of Tokyo IRCN Symposium Comes to Harvard - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
On Thursday, August 28, MCB will host the University of Tokyo International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN) Symposium @Harvard, bringing together leading neuroscientists from Japan and Ha...
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August 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
University of Tokyo IRCN Symposium Comes to Harvard 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social
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Herpes zoster vaccination eligibility reduced the probability of new dementia diagnoses, suggesting its potential preventive effect.
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https://ja.ma/4lagSB6
June 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Herpes zoster vaccination eligibility reduced the probability of new dementia diagnoses, suggesting its potential preventive effect.
https://ja.ma/4lagSB6
https://ja.ma/4lagSB6
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Autism is associated with inflexibility of brain dynamics. Watanabe and Yamasue show that TMS over the right superior parietal lobule while the brain is ‘stuck’ in a certain state reduces this rigidity and relieves various autistic traits.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans - Nature Neuroscience
Autism is associated with inflexibility of brain dynamics. Watanabe and Yamasue show that TMS over the right superior parietal lobule while the brain is ‘stuck’ in a certain state reduces this rigidit...
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June 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Autism is associated with inflexibility of brain dynamics. Watanabe and Yamasue show that TMS over the right superior parietal lobule while the brain is ‘stuck’ in a certain state reduces this rigidity and relieves various autistic traits.
@takamitsuw.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@takamitsuw.bsky.social
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This is a wellbeing room in my university.
June 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is a wellbeing room in my university.
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A paper in Nature reports the discovery of a new species of tyrannosauroid — the group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. This discovery sheds new light on the evolution of wider tyrannosaur species. go.nature.com/4jM0KVo #Paleosky 🧪
June 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A paper in Nature reports the discovery of a new species of tyrannosauroid — the group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. This discovery sheds new light on the evolution of wider tyrannosaur species. go.nature.com/4jM0KVo #Paleosky 🧪
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Evidence in support of the "Brain from the inside out":
Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies.
Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies.
Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
June 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Evidence in support of the "Brain from the inside out":
Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies.
Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies.
Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Lay summary: www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/pre...
June 9, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Lay summary: www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/pre...
Our latest paper is now out
@natneuro.nature.com: with energy landscape analysis & a closed-loop TMS, we show dynamic brain-behaviour causality in autistic humans.
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@natneuro.nature.com: with energy landscape analysis & a closed-loop TMS, we show dynamic brain-behaviour causality in autistic humans.
rdcu.be/epKex
Noninvasive reduction of neural rigidity alters autistic behaviors in humans
Nature Neuroscience - Autism is associated with inflexibility of brain dynamics. Watanabe and Yamasue show that TMS over the right superior parietal lobule while the brain is ‘stuck’ in...
rdcu.be
June 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Our latest paper is now out
@natneuro.nature.com: with energy landscape analysis & a closed-loop TMS, we show dynamic brain-behaviour causality in autistic humans.
rdcu.be/epKex
@natneuro.nature.com: with energy landscape analysis & a closed-loop TMS, we show dynamic brain-behaviour causality in autistic humans.
rdcu.be/epKex
Our new paper is out at Advanced Science. In collaboration with mathematicians and AI scientists, we found LLMs' internal information processing resembles that seen in humans with Wernicke's aphasia.
Article: doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Press Release: www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/pre...
Article: doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Press Release: www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/pre...
Comparison of Large Language Model with Aphasia
Large language models (LLMs) answer almost all questions fluently but often inaccurately, which resembles a specific type of aphasia in humans. Using a data-driven analysis called energy landscape an...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Our new paper is out at Advanced Science. In collaboration with mathematicians and AI scientists, we found LLMs' internal information processing resembles that seen in humans with Wernicke's aphasia.
Article: doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Press Release: www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/pre...
Article: doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Press Release: www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/pre...
Our review paper with Prof Masuda @ubuffalo.bsky.social is out @plos.org Complex Systems: technical tutorial review on energy landscape analysis we have used mainly for neuroscience: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Energy landscape analysis based on the Ising model: Tutorial review
We review a class of energy landscape analysis method that uses the Ising model and takes multivariate time series data as input. The method allows one to capture dynamics of the data as trajectories ...
dx.plos.org
May 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Our review paper with Prof Masuda @ubuffalo.bsky.social is out @plos.org Complex Systems: technical tutorial review on energy landscape analysis we have used mainly for neuroscience: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Impressed with these bold recommendations from the Times Crime and Justice Commission, especially 9 and 10 🔥 🔥 🔥
The final report of @thetimes.com Crime and Justice Commission is published today. This is our ten point plan to transform a broken system
April 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Impressed with these bold recommendations from the Times Crime and Justice Commission, especially 9 and 10 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Huge congrats to @adeelrazi.bsky.social @leonovelli.bsky.social and team on this monumental achievement - a valuable open resource for the community!
PsiConnect: A Multimodal Neuroimaging Study of Psilocybin-Induced Changes in Brain and Behaviour https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.11.643415v1
April 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Huge congrats to @adeelrazi.bsky.social @leonovelli.bsky.social and team on this monumental achievement - a valuable open resource for the community!
Several postdoc positions are still open in the lab. fMRI or EEG experience is desirable but strong Matlab/python expertise would be also appreciated as itself. Anyway, please contact me if you’re interested!
March 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Several postdoc positions are still open in the lab. fMRI or EEG experience is desirable but strong Matlab/python expertise would be also appreciated as itself. Anyway, please contact me if you’re interested!
Reposted by Takamitsu Watanabe
The IIT debate-debacle (also sometimes referred to as the "Consciousness Wars") continues with this letter:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Followed by a response by several IIT proponents:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And a rejoinder(?) by Gomez-Marin & Seth:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Followed by a response by several IIT proponents:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And a rejoinder(?) by Gomez-Marin & Seth:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? - Nature Neuroscience
Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open ...
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The IIT debate-debacle (also sometimes referred to as the "Consciousness Wars") continues with this letter:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Followed by a response by several IIT proponents:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And a rejoinder(?) by Gomez-Marin & Seth:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Followed by a response by several IIT proponents:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And a rejoinder(?) by Gomez-Marin & Seth:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Takamitsu Watanabe
Synthetic biologists discuss with Nature why it’s so hard to write a genome. “We underestimated how complex biology is.” 🧪 🧬
Why is it so hard to rewrite a genome?
Synthetic biologists have the know-how and ambition to retool whole genomes. But the hidden complexity of biological systems continues to surprise them.
go.nature.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Synthetic biologists discuss with Nature why it’s so hard to write a genome. “We underestimated how complex biology is.” 🧪 🧬
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It is with great sadness that we announce the recent death of award-winning researcher and colleague Prof Eleanor Maguire. Prof. Maguire was a cognitive neuroscientist at
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology for more than 30 years.
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UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology for more than 30 years.
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Tribute to pioneering cognitive neuroscientist Professor Eleanor Maguire
UCL colleagues and alumni have paid tribute to the award-winning researcher, Professor Eleanor Maguire, whose groundbreaking studies into spatial awareness and memory, led to a deeper understanding of...
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January 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
It is with great sadness that we announce the recent death of award-winning researcher and colleague Prof Eleanor Maguire. Prof. Maguire was a cognitive neuroscientist at
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology for more than 30 years.
bit.ly/40fjpBk
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology for more than 30 years.
bit.ly/40fjpBk
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Nature research paper: Ensemble reactivations during brief rest drive fast learning of sequences
https://go.nature.com/3WkaL3i
https://go.nature.com/3WkaL3i
Ensemble reactivations during brief rest drive fast learning of sequences - Nature
In macaques, motor cortex activity associated with motor learning tasks is reactivated during brief breaks between learning blocks and predicts subsequent performance gains.
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January 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Nature research paper: Ensemble reactivations during brief rest drive fast learning of sequences
https://go.nature.com/3WkaL3i
https://go.nature.com/3WkaL3i
Happy to share my recent career update in academia: full professor @ IRCN UTokyo. Thank you, the tenure committee and the apparently anonymous seniors who wrote reference letters in their busy times!
PS. We’re still looking for a project assistant professor (≈senior post doc)!!
PS. We’re still looking for a project assistant professor (≈senior post doc)!!
January 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Happy to share my recent career update in academia: full professor @ IRCN UTokyo. Thank you, the tenure committee and the apparently anonymous seniors who wrote reference letters in their busy times!
PS. We’re still looking for a project assistant professor (≈senior post doc)!!
PS. We’re still looking for a project assistant professor (≈senior post doc)!!
Hiring a project assistant professor (senior post-doc) for yips project. fMRI x TMS x EEG for adverse effects of consciousness in athletes. ircn.jp/wp-content/u...
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December 23, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Hiring a project assistant professor (senior post-doc) for yips project. fMRI x TMS x EEG for adverse effects of consciousness in athletes. ircn.jp/wp-content/u...