A symposium was co-hosted at the 100th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan.

The symposium “Neurophysiology in the big data era: uncovering ultra-complex emotion circuits connecting self and others” was co-hosted at the 100th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan on March 15 (from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM). It was chaired by Dr. Agetsuma and co-chaired by Dr. Kasai. During this symposium, Drs. Agetsuma, Noritake, and Kasai gave presentations.
The main theme of the 100th Anniversary Annual Meeting was to look back on the progress of physiology in the last 100 years and discuss about its prospects to come in the next 100 years. To take advantage of this opportunity, we invited prominent speakers to hold the symposium “Uncovering the Ultra-Complex Information Processing Mechanisms Underlying Social Emotions” (under the lead of Drs. Agetsuma and Kasai) to present their latest research which has been difficult to achieve with conventional technologies.
Based on data-driven and computational approaches, the speakers introduced a variety of aspiring interdisciplinary research projects that are approaching the essence of neurophysiology through the analysis of big data obtained from various new technologies, such as the next-generation anatomical methods at the whole-brain level, large-scale measurement and manipulation of neural activity. This symposium’s goal was to be a spark for the growth of neurophysiology in the next 100 years, but at the same time, it proved to be a significant occasion to think with the audience about the essence of social emotions that our research area aims to explore.

Organizers: Masakazu AGETSUMA (National Institute for Physiological Sciences) and Atsushi KASAI (Osaka University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Speaker:
Masakazu AGETSUMA (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)
“Introduction: Data driven approach to visualize dynamic information processing in the brain - toward the next 100 years of neurophysiology linking brain and mind”

Ziyan HUANG (Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
“Neural representation of self- and other-states during observational fear”

Atsushi NORITAKE (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Division of Behavioral Development)
“Subspace Interactions Between Cortical and Subcortical Regions in Social Reward Processing”

Atsushi KASAI (Osaka University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
“Brain-wide neuronal activation mapping shed light on new ensembles controlling brain functions”

Kazunari MIYAMICHI (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research)
“Structure and Functions of the Frontal Cortex-Dopamine System Network That Facilitate Maternal Learning”