Kana Yamamoto, M.D., Ph.D Physician, Medical Governance Research Institute In her regular column “A Little Medical Notebook,” where she discusses everyday topics and news from a medical and health perspective, Dr. Kana Yamamoto, an internist at Navitas Clinic and the Medical Governance Research Institute, examines the issue of “hidden dehydration.” When people hear the word “dehydration,” many think of older adults or infants. However, active, healthy young people who are c

Mutsuko Ohnishi, MD, Internal medicine physician in Boston, USA Contents 1. What Is a SuperAger? 2. What Happens in the Brain? 3. Can New Neurons Be Generated in the Adult Brain? 4. What Did the Researchers Investigate? 5. New Neurons Can Develop Even in the Adult Brain 6. What Happens in the Brain of a Person with Alzheimer’s Disease? 7. Four Habits Shared by SuperAgers8. It Is Never Too Late to Improve Your Lifestyle “It seems I’ve become so forgetful lately. I guess it

Kana Yamamoto, M.D., Ph.D Physician, Medical Governance Research Institute The “Imitecho (Medical Examination Notebook)” column features reflections by a physician on health and everyday life. In this installment, Dr. Kana Yamamoto, a physician at Navitas Clinic and the Medical Governance Research Institute, reflects on panic attacks from both a professional and personal perspective. Shortly after I moved to the United States, I was constantly confused by small, everyday sit

Masaharu Tsubokura, M.D., Ph.D. Chief Professor, Department of Radiation Health Management, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company, the way evacuation shelters are organized has undergone significant review. During this process, many accounts of the inconveniences and anxieties experienced by women were recorded, serving a

Keita Shimizu, 2nd-year student, Science Class III, The University of Tokyo Lessons from the Front Lines That Systems Alone Cannot Teach Imagine a child with limited mobility racing a wheelchair around a relatively small room. Most people would probably react in a familiar way. They might think, "If the child crashes, it could be dangerous," or "There are other children in the room. Someone could get hurt." Yet in the setting I visited, that conventional way of thinking simpl