403 About the Contributors Jinglong Wu was born in Jiutai, China, on August 8, 1958. He received a BS from Jilin Vocational Teachers College, China, and MS from Kyoto University, Japan, both in electrical engineering, in 1984 and 1991, respectively. He received his PhD in electric engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1994. He was an assistant professor at Ritsumeikan University, Japan, from 1994 to 1997, a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yamaguchi University, from 1997 to 1999. From 1999, he was an associate professor, and from 2002, he was a full professor in the Depart- ment of Intelligent Mechanical Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Japan. Since 2008, he has been Professor and Laboratory Head, Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Japan. His current research interests are bio- medical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, ergonomics and human science. Dr. Wu received the Best Paper Award of the IEEE Joint International Conference on Neural Network in 1993 and the SICE Best Paper Award in 2000. In 2003, he received the Gennai Grand Prize, Ozaki Foundation, Japan. * * * Koji Abe is 53 years old and is currently Professor and Chairman of Neurology at Okayama University Medical School in Japan. He graduated from Tohoku University School of Medicine (M.D.) in Sendai (Japan) and then received a PhD from Tohoku University. Professor Koji Abe has published more than 400 papers on clinical neurology, translational stroke research, and the discovery of many genes involved in neurological diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Parkinson’s diseases), all of which are deeply related to dementia. His research interests cover many important fields of neurology, with particular focuses on the mechanism of ischemic brain damage, gene and stem cell therapy, and neuroimaging. He is currently serving as the President of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism and as the Executive Director of the Japanese Societies of Neurology and Stroke. Kentaro Akazawa received his MD degree from KPUM, Japan, in 2001. He received his PhD from KPUM in 2008. He is currently a faculty member of the Radiology Department at KPUM. Kosuke Akiyama was born on January 21, 1978 in Japan. He graduated from Kagawa Medical University on March 31, 2002 and received a PhD from Kagawa Medical University in March 2008. He was an Otolaryngologist at Kagawa Medical University from May 2002 to March 2004 and at Sakaide City Hospital from April 2004 to March 2005. He attended the Postgraduate School of the Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University beginning in April 2005 and graduated on March 31, 2009. He has been About the Contributors an Otolaryngologist at Kagawa Medical University since April 2009. His current research interest is ion transport systems of the endolymphatic sac. Hiroyuki Arai was born in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan on June 15, 1955. He received an MD from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1980 and a Doctorate in Neuroscience from Tohoku University, Japan in 1986. He was an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University, Japan, from April 1994 to January 1999 and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku University from February 1999 to September 2003. From October 2003 to December 2007, he was a Professor in the Department of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku University. Since January 2008, he has been a Professor in the Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University. His current research interests include clinical research on dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and related disorders. Dr. Arai received the 1995 Gold Award from the Tohoku University School of Medicine in 1995 and the Best Paper Award from the Japanese Society of Geriatric Medicine, 1997. Hajime Asama is a Professor in the Department of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engi- neering, The University of Tokyo. He was a Research Associate at RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) since 1986, a Senior Scientist at RIKEN since 1998, a Professor of RACE (Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering) at The University of Tokyo since 2002, and a Professor in the Department of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo since 2009. His main work includes “Distributed Task Processing by a Multiple Autonomous Robot System Using an Intelligent Data Carrier System,” Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, An International Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 215-224, (2000). He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), and the Japanese Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers (SICE). Zheng Chen is President of the Beijing Geriatric Hospital and the Director of the Division of Tu- berculosis. He received MBA training at York University Business School in Toronto in 2002, DRG training at the Public Health School of Johns Hopkins University in 2006, and social gerontology train- ing at the UN international Institute on Aging in Malta in 2008. He is Vice Chairman of the Geriatric Committee of Gerontological Society of China and serves on the editorial board of Clinical Medicine of China. He has spent more than 20 years on research and clinical work in tuberculosis and geriatrics, especially senile fall and dementia. Dehua Chui, MD, PhD is a professor who does research on brain aging and cognitive impairment in the Neuroscience Research Institute of Peking University Health Science Center. He is also the Chief Scientist in the Neurology Department of Peking University Third Hospital, Director-General of the Scientific Committee of Aging and Anti-Aging for the China Gerontological Society, a council member of Professional Committee of Chinese Pharmacological Society for Anti-Aging and Alzheimer’s disease, Chief Editor of The Neurological Diseases and Mental Health magazine, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Prof. Chui has been researching the molecular-neurobiological mecha- nisms of neurodegenerating diseases and Alzheimer’s disease for more than 20 years at the Japan National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry and Japan RIKEN and has published more than 60 academic articles 404 About the Contributors in Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Human Molecular Genetics, Journal of Biological Chemistry, FASEB Journal, Journal of Neurochemistry, and American Journal of Pathology. His major research fields are neurobiological mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, the connection between cognitive impair- ment and aging-related factors, brain molecular imaging and biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer’s disease, and the development of new anti-aging and anti-dementia drugs, includ- ing immune therapy, synthetic compounds, and traditional Chinese medicine. Shun’ichi Doi was born in 1947. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1972 and 1994, respectively. In 1972, he joined Toyota Central R&D Labs, Inc. He has been a Professor of the Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Japan, since 2004. His current research interests include vehicle dynamics and active safety technology. Dr. Doi is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers. Dongsheng Fan is Vice President and Director of Neurology, Research Fellow, Chief Physician, Professor and Doctoral Tutor of Peking University Third Hospital. He received his MD from the Medi- cal University of Japan Graduate School of Autonomy in 1996 and spent two years in Japan Medical self-completed post-doctoral research home. His main research areas cover neurodegenerative disease, neuromuscular disease, and cerebrovascular disease. He has published more than 240 articles and won first prize in scientific and technological progress from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology Progress Award 1, third prize in Chinese medical science, the Outstanding Youth Award for Chinese Medicine, Beijing Municipal Education innovation model, Peking University Health Sci- ence Education Teaching Achievement Award, Peking University Teaching Achievement Award, Peking University Yang Fuqing Yang Yuan Academy Award for Outstanding Teaching and Research, Peking University Excellent Communist Model, and Peking University Outstanding Teacher title, and the Ministry of Education selected him for the New Century Excellent Project Support Personnel Development Plans. Katsutoshi Furukawa was born in Nagoya, Japan, on December 1, 1960. He received an MD from Yamagata University, Japan, in 1988 and a PhD in Neurological Science from Tohoku University, Ja- pan in 1992. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Neurophysiology, Tohoku University, Japan, from July 1992 to February 1994, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, USA from February 1994 to September 1997, an Instructor in the Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA from September 1997 to December 1998, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology,