Yasuyoshi Watanabe

Yasuyoshi Watanabe, MD, PhD, is the Director of RIKEN BDR-DAIKIN Collaboration Center at RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Kobe City, Hyogo, Japan. He is a Professor, Department of Physiology, Osaka City Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City, Japan, where his specialties are fatigue science and molecular neuroimaging.

Dr. Watanabe serves as an associate editor of the journal Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior.

IOM Committee on Diagnostic Criteria for ME/CFS
Dr Watanabe was a reviewer for the 2015 report produced by the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Diagnostic Criteria for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Book chapter

 * 2020, Integrated Imaging on Fatigue and Chronic Fatigue, a chapter in the book, Make Life Visible - (Full chapter)

Notable studies

 * 2006, Reduced responsiveness is an essential feature of chronic fatigue syndrome: a fMRI study - (Full text)
 * 2010, A new hypothesis of chronic fatigue syndrome: Co-conditioning theory - (Abstract)
 * 2011, Cognitive dysfunction and mental fatigue in childhood chronic fatigue syndrome – A 6-month follow-up study - (Abstract)
 * 2013, Neurocognitive impairment in childhood chronic fatigue syndrome - (Full Text)
 * 2014, Neuroinflammation in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: An ¹¹C-(R)-PK11195 PET Study - (Full Text)
 * 2015, Less efficient and costly processes of frontal cortex in childhood chronic fatigue syndrome - (Full Text)
 * 2015, Frontier studies on fatigue, autonomic nerve dysfunction, and sleep-rhythm disorder - (Full Text)
 * 2016, Neural effect of physical fatigue on mental fatigue: a magnetoencephalography study - (Abstract)
 * 2016, Roles of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during physical fatigue: a magnetoencephalographic study - (Abstract)
 * 2016, Ubiquinol-10 supplementation improves autonomic nervous function and cognitive function in chronic fatigue syndrome - (Abstract)
 * 2016, Index markers of chronic fatigue syndrome with dysfunction of TCA and urea cycles - (Full Text)
 * 2016, Low putamen activity associated with poor reward sensitivity in childhood chronic fatigue syndrome - (Full text)
 * 2018, History of Researches on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - (Abstract)
 * 2018, Neuroinflammation in the Brain of Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - (Abstract)
 * 2018, Brain Science on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - (Abstract)
 * 2018, Association of Fatigue and Stress With Gray Matter Volume - (Full text)
 * 2019, Decreased alpha-band oscillatory brain activity prior to movement initiated by perception of fatigue sensation - (Full text)
 * 2020, Deep phenotyping of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome in Japanese population - (Full text)
 * 2020, Identification of actin network proteins, talin-1 and filamin-A, in circulating extracellular vesicles as blood biomarkers for human myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - (Full text)
 * 2021, Insights into Metabolite Diagnostic Biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - (Full text)

Online presence

 * PubMed

Learn more

 * RIKEN BDR -DAIKIN Collaboration Center