Somnolence Preceded the Development of a Subthalamic Lesion in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder

My History in Juntendo University

With my retirement as a professor, I would like to review my 47-year history of studying and working at Juntendo University. I was admitted to Juntendo University School of Medicine in 1976, and after graduation I joined the Department of Neurology in 1982, where Professor Hirotaro Narabayashi was the founding chairman. I became particularly interested in movement disorders and neurophysiology. The second chairman, Professor Yoshikuni Mizuno, established an American-style neurology training system. From 1992 to 1994, I studied electrophysiology at the University of Calgary in Canada, and my family and I enjoyed life in Canada very much. In 2000, I moved to Juntendo Izu-Nagaoka Hospital, now renamed Juntendo Shizuoka Hospital. I instructed young neurologists to write case reports in English. Owing to this achievement, the third chairman, Professor Nobutaka Hattori, recommended me to be a recipient of Alumni Scientific Award and to become a professor of neurology in 2009. I also became an executive officer of the Asian and Oceanian Section of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society from 2015 to 2019. In 2017, I was appointed as the dean of the Faculty of Health Science and Nursing. I devoted myself to improving the nursing education and then I received the Best Professor Award twice. The level of the faculty improved, so that all the students were able to pass the National Nursing Examination consistently. In conclusion, I thank all my colleagues, faculty members, and family for letting me have valuable experiences and memories in Juntendo University.

Sleep medicine: Practice, challenges and new frontiers

Sleep medicine is an ambitious cross-disciplinary challenge, requiring the mutual integration between complementary specialists in order to build a solid framework. Although knowledge in the sleep field is growing impressively thanks to technical and brain imaging support and through detailed clinic-epidemiologic observations, several topics are still dominated by outdated paradigms. In this review we explore the main novelties and gaps in the field of sleep medicine, assess the commonest sleep disturbances, provide advices for routine clinical practice and offer alternative insights and perspectives on the future of sleep research.