MOTOTAKA SUZUKI, Ph.D.

PROFESSOR OF NEUROSCIENCE

PART-TIME AFFILIATION

Department of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
Faculty of Science | University of Amsterdam

PRIMARY AFFILIATION

Graduate School of Frontier Bioscience
The University of Osaka

News



Our new preprint "Do psychic cells generate consciousness?" has appeared in arXiv.

Thankfully, I have been awarded IBRO Rising Star Award.

Our new preprint "A computational architecture incorporating shallow brain networks: integrating parallel cortical and subcortical processing" in bioRxiv.

On April 1, 2025, I'm starting a new laboratory at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. If you're interested in joining my laboratory, please contact me.

Our new paper reporting that serotonin reduces cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus has recently been published.

A research grant awarded from Kayamori Foundation of Information Science Advancement, Nagoya, Japan.

An invited talk in the Online Workshop of Crossmodal Learning on December 5, 2024.

ENW-M1 grant (€371K) awarded from Dutch Research Council. A big thanks to 3 anonymous reviewers. Press Release

I was a symposiums chair in the conference "Thalamocortical networks", May 16-17, San Sebastián, the Basque Country. The conference took place at The Miramar Palace next to the beautiful beach.

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Suzuki, M. & Aru, J. (2025) Do psychic cells generate consciousness? arXiv 2506.20164. DOI NEW

Lee, K., Baracco, L., Pennartz, C.M.A., Suzuki, M.* & Mejias, J.F.* (2025) A computational architecture incorporating shallow brain networks: integrating parallel cortical and subcortical processing. bioRxiv 2025.02.24.639932. DOI *co-senior authors

Araragi, N., Petermann, M., Suzuki, M., Larkum, M.E., Mosienko, V., Bader, M., Alenina, N., & Klempin, F. (2025) Acute optogenetic stimulation of serotonin neurons reduces cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of mice. ACS Chemical Neuroscience DOI

Suzuki, M., Pennartz, C.M.A. & Aru, J. (2023) How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 24:778-791. DOI

Press release from SILS: WWW & AmsterdamAI

Sohn, J., Suzuki, M., Youssef, M., Hatada, S., Larkum, M.E., Kawaguchi, Y. & Kubota, Y. (2022) Presynaptic supervision of cortical spine dynamics in motor learning. Science Advances 8(30):eabm0531. DOI

Press release from NIPS: WWW
Media coverage: covered by 3 outlets including AAAS, MyNavi News

Suzuki, M., Aru, J. & Larkum, M.E. (2021) Double-µPeriscope, a tool for multi-layer optical recordings, optogenetic stimulations or both. eLife 10:e72894. DOI

Preprint in bioRχiv 2021.06.28.450155. DOI

Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (2020) General anesthesia decouples cortical pyramidal neurons. Cell 180(4):666-676. DOI

Recommended in Faculty Opinions. DOI
Invited commentary article in Japanese (ISBN 978-4-7581-2536-9)

Suzuki, M. & Larkum, M.E. (2017) Dendritic calcium spikes are clearly detectable at the cortical surface. Nature Communications 8(1):276. DOI

Selected for Nature Index that tracks top papers.

Suzuki, M. & Gottlieb, J. (2013) Distinct neural mechanisms of distractor suppression in the frontal and parietal lobe. Nature Neuroscience 16(1):98-104. DOI

Featured in "News & Views" of Nature Neuroscience. DOI