About 30% of people with ADHD get limited benefit from methylphenidate. A Fukui mouse study found adding a D2 drug helped mice missing the protein NSF, but the same combo made normal mice more impulsive.
Get out of bed if you are not asleep in 20 minutes. That rule belongs to CBT-I, which a University of Tokyo analysis puts at 41% remission against 28% for pills. Japan covered it in June 2026, after rejecting it in 2024.
Japan's Children and Families Agency asked 100,000 young people about marriage. 35.1% of unmarried respondents said they have no intention of marrying, but only 53.1% of that group said they do not want to.
PET scans of 37 patients whose hallucinations began after age 40 found tau, the protein behind Alzheimer's, in 64.9% of them against 14.9% of controls. They split into three near-equal groups.
How does the brain run on intuition when the evidence is murky, and how does it know when to stop trusting that hunch? RIKEN researchers traced the circuit that stores recent sensory experience and the tiny brain region that acts as a mismatch detector to rewrite it. The same wiring appeared in an AI model, too.
INSOMNIA, an esports club in Tokyo's Sumida ward, has launched INS×LAB, a joint research project with the University of Tokyo and other institutions. It pairs gaze-tracking cognitive science with sleep-log and acupuncture-based conditioning to make winning scientifically repeatable.
Emergency transports for teen overdose in Tokyo have roughly tripled in five years, driven by over-the-counter medicines rather than illegal drugs. Japan's revised pharmaceutical law took effect on May 1, 2026, turning sales rules into binding obligations, but the isolation underneath remains unaddressed. Compared with the US fentanyl crisis and UK harm reduction.