We are studying the mechanism for neural control of bodily movement using rodents, nonhuman primates, as well as human subjects. We also generate a nonhuman primate model of psychiatric and neurological diseases for the better understanding of their pathology and developing new therapeutic strategies.
We held the 38th Systems Neuroscience seminar "Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Sensing and Expressing Affective Stimuli" inviting Professor Takayuki Yamashita.
Dr.Taku Hasegawa is newly assigned as a section chief.
Dr. Akito Kosugi received a Excellent Poster Award at the Primate Neuroscience Research Society meeting.
The 19th Motor Control Meeting was held in NTT Atsugi R&D Center.
Trevor-san newly joined our lab.
Miyazaki-san received the bronze medal poster award and the most popular poster award at the 7th Taiwan International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders!
Ngeun-san newly joined our lab.
Lab members joined Neuroscience 2023 held in Washington D.C.
Enrique Contreras newly joined our lab.
Dr. Seki and some lab members joined Motor Control: Spinal Circuits and Beyond2023 at St Andrews university, and presented research results.
We invited our collaborative research partner, Prof. Francisco to Annual meeting of The physiological society of Japan and conducted a symposium "Hyperadaptability for overcoming body-brain dysfunction".
Our scientific paper "Time course of recovery of different motor functions following a reproducible cortical infarction in non-human primates", by Akito Kosugi, Yosuke Saga, Moeko Kudo, Masashi Koizumi, Tatsuya Umeda and Kazuhiko Seki" has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Neurology-Stroke.
Maeda-san newly joined our lab.
Egawa-san newly joined our lab.
Yoshida-san and Sugai-san newly joined our lab.
The 15th Japanese Society for Motor Control Meeting was held entirely online. A total of 190 researchers participated in the meeting, and it served as a good opportunity to share research findings, exchange opinions and information.
Seki-san organized together with Naito-san a symposium "Hyper-adaptation in the brain" at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society in Kobe.
A new member, Ota-san has joined our department.
Oya-san ends his assignment at the end of April and starts working in Canada!
Minakawa-san, Kikuta-san, Bonkobara-san, Miyazaki-san joined our department.
We've redesigned our website.
Nakamura-san joined our department.
Miyamoto-san(secretary)joined our department.
A scientific paper"Forelimb force direction and magnitude independently controlled by spinal modules in the macaque."was published in PNAS.
Sasaki-san leaves her job at the end of June and starts working at a new location. She made contributions to the Department for many years !
Umeda-san becomes an Associate Professor in Graduate school of Medicine, Kyoto University. Congratulations !!
Our lab is looking for two technical staffs.
Our lab is seeking two postdoctoral fellows. Please see our "Job Opportunity page".
A scientific paper "Distinct sensorimotor feedback loops for dynamic and static controlof primate precision grip" has been accepted for publication in Communications Biology.
Koizumi-san received a technical encouragement award of the Corporation for Production and Research of Laboratory Primates.
Director Seki presented research results at Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago, USA
The13th meeting of Society for Motor Control was held. Kosugi-san and Uchida-san got "Young researchers encouragement awards".
Director Seki and other lab members presented research results at the NEURO 2019 Meeting in Niigata
World Brain Awareness Week event was held at NCNP.
Director Seki and other lab members presented research results at the 29th NCM Annual Meeting in Toyama
Akito Kosugi-san (researcher)became a member of our lab.
Director Seki gave a talk for the Adler Foundation Symposium on Alzheimer's Disease at the Salk Institute.
Director Seki gave a lecture at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
Director Seki and other lab members presented research results at EmboSS 2018 in Osaka.
Saeka Tomatsu-san becomes an Associate Professor in National Institute for Physiological Sciences. Congratulations !!
The 12th Annual Meeting of the Motor Control Society was held at Sophia University.
Director Seki and Koizumi-san joined in the 41st Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society in Kobe.
Director Seki gave an invited talk at NCM annual meeting 2018 in Santa Fe.
Kumiko Oida-san (veterinarian) joined our department.
Director Seki gave a speech at High Intensity Focused Ultrasound: Mathematical Modeling and Clinical Applications meeting (Toronto)
Tomohiko Takei-san won a prize for the best scientific paper presented at the NCNP research workshop.
Kayo Yoshida-san joined our department.
We are currently recruiting technical staffs as well as assistant administrative staffs.
Tomatsu-san presented research results at Neuroscience 2017 in Washington,DC.
Congratulations to Tomohiko Takei-san on becoming a Hakubi center researcher at Kyoto University.
UCL Prof. Shin-Ichi Ohnuma and Dr. Ed.Wild gave talks at NCNP.
Amit Yaron-san (researcher) joined us.
Director Seki presented research results at NCM(Neural Control of Movement)2017 in Dublin.
The 4th Embodied-brain systems science meeting was held in Kirishima.
The 29th System Neuroscience Seminar was held at NCNP
Director Seki gave a special lecture at the 3rd CU-NIPS Symposium in Thailand.
Yosuke Saga-san (researcher) joined us.
The 28th System Neuroscience Seminar was held at NCNP
The 27th System Neuroscience Seminar was held at NCNP
Lab members presented research results at the 10th Japanese Society for Motor Control.
Director Seki gave a speech at the 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Lab members presented research results at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society.
Nobuko Ohtani-san joined us.
Akiyo KAWANOBE-san joined us.