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PROFILE

Name	Sports Medicine
Chairman	Professor Takahiro Yoshikawa
Contact	Phone：+81-6-6645-3790 Email：wsports@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp
Website	http://www.med.osaka-cu.ac.jp/sportsmed/
Overview	Our laboratory’s history began when the university center of health care, health education, and sports medicine was established in 1964, and it has sustained stable growth in each domain. ■Who we are We are committed and collaborative physicians, nurses, nutritionists, exercise instructors, scientists and support staff. ■Where we are We are at the Department of Basic Medical Science in the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University. We belong to national/international academic communities in fields including sports medicine, nutrition, physiology and behavioral science. ■Our mission To discover new evidence regarding the onset and progression of lifestyle diseases through research in areas including human physiology and behavioral science. To contribute significantly to the alleviation of suffering and to the cure of human diseases. To promote happy physically and mentally healthy living. ■Our vision To bring a new dimension to sports and lifestyle medicine To elucidate the conscious and unconscious neural mechanisms regulating our behavior with emphasis on the importance of the associations between these neural mechanisms, which would contribute to maintaining our physical and mental well-being To cultivate health professionals who are motivated to conduct research To establish a multidisciplinary network with our domestic and international collaborators ■Our activities Research Neuroscientific studies to get insight into the nature of human behavioral responses forming individual habits by using neuroimaging techniques such as magnetoencephalography (MEG). We focus on the neural mechanisms of… 1) the irresistible desire related to appetite, 2) mental/physical stress, and 3) mental/physical fatigue and fatigue sensation. Education 1) Health education and promotion for University students in all faculties 2) Respiratory physiology for Medical students 3) Research guidance for Postgraduate students 4) Educational programs for The public Clinical activities (concurrently serving as the university health care center) School health and occupational medicine, including regular medical examinations and guidance for all university students and staff ●Keywords 　Lifestyle; Neural mechanism; Unawareness; Appetite; Stress; Exercise; Fatigue.