History of Brain Science Institute

1976	Neuroscience research in Tamagawa University started at the College of Engineering.
1990	The 1st Conference of Japanese Neural Network Societywas held at Tamagawa University.
1996	"Brain Science Research Facility" was established in "Tamagawa University Research Institute" International academic forum "Tamagawa Dynamic Brain Forum" started.
2002	"Linguistic Information and Culture Research Facility" was established in "Tamagawa University Research Institute" 21st COE program "Integrative Human Science Program" was accepted （2002-2006 Minoru Tsukada, Leader）
2003	"Intelligent Robot Research Facility" was established in "Tamagawa University Research Institute" Genetic Analysis and Brain Activity Imaging (GBI) Laboratory was completed.
2004	"Baby Lab" was established.
2005	"Forum for Young Researchers" started.
2007	"Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute" (Jun Tanji, Director) was established, uniting the previous facilities: Brain Science Research Facility, Linguistic Information and Culture Research Facility and Intelligent Robot Research Facility.
2008	Research Center Building was completed. Global COE Program "Origins of the Social Mind" was accepted. (2008-2012 Masamichi Sakagami, Leader）
2010	Graduate School of Brain Sciences [Ph.D course] was established. (Minoru Kimura, Dean)
2011	"Brain Science Training Course" started.
2012	"Brain Science Retreat" started.
2013	The previous research centers in Brain Science Institute were reorganized into two research centers: Basic Brain Science Research Center and Applied Brain Science Research Center.
2014	Mind Science Major [Master's course] was established in Graduate School of Brain Sciences (Minoru Kimura, Dean).
2017	MEXT-Supported Program for the Joint Usage / Research Center "Social neuroscience research center" was accepted. (2017-2022 Hidehiko Komatsu, Leader)
2022	Research centers were reorganized in three centers: Systems Neuroscience Research Center, Brain-Mind-Society Research Center, and Advanced Interlligence & Robotics Research Center (AIBot).