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.

Dr. Watanabe is the 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

 * 2010, A new hypothesis of chronic fatigue syndrome: Co-conditioning theory (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
 * 2016, Roles of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during physical fatigue: a magnetoencephalographic study
 * 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)
 * 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)

Online presence

 * PubMed

Learn more

 * RIKEN BDR -DAIKIN Collaboration Center