Hippocampal MRI examinationBrainSuite

Measure your hippocampus, then start growing it.
To keep your hippocampus from shrinking, start by knowing its size.

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Start by knowing. Shown in Japanese.

BrainSuite is an examination
that measures the hippocampus in your brain.

Measuring change in the hippocampus — less than one per cent of the whole brain —
takes AI.

The hippocampus: a region conventional examinations could not measure.
From the head MRI images taken of you, AI measures the volume of the hippocampus, and you receive a report showing where you stand compared with the average for your age group.

What the hippocampus is (Japanese)
The brain on the cover of the BrainSuite report
The hippocampus identified from MRI images The BrainSuite analysis report. Shown in Japanese.

The hippocampus shows you
what you would not notice about your brain health.

The hippocampus is the gateway to memory — it works when you learn something new — and it is also the brain’s control tower.

Do you ever feel that your memory or your judgement — your brain’s performance — has slipped without your noticing?

Cognitive function, including memory, changes without your noticing, under the influence of age and of how you live. Ahead of any decline in cognitive function, the hippocampus — often called the centre of memory — shows that change as volume.

The hippocampus can be grown.
Which is why it is worth knowing where you stand now.

Making hippocampal growth your goal
moves both mind and body in a better direction

The hippocampus is a region that grows at any age.

What you do to grow your hippocampus improves how you perform today. What matters is to take the hippocampus as your indicator and act so that it does not atrophy.
Doing so builds the capacity to resist, even if you reach a state where cognitive function declines more readily.
So why not start by knowing your own hippocampus?

Daily habits that grow the hippocampus

More than just a scan.

Support for growing your hippocampus starts here.

BrainSuite comes with MyBrain, a personal page that supports you in growing your hippocampus after your examination. It does not end with the measurement: MyBrain guides you in building daily habits that keep your hippocampus from shrinking. MyBrain is available in Japanese only.

The MyBrain personal page. Shown in Japanese.

A tool for growing your hippocampus
MyBrain

Check your results and how they change over the years, and read content that gives you pointers for your daily habits. It supports you in working towards hippocampal growth yourself.

MyBrain
Advice report

Based on your memory and concentration test results and a questionnaire on your daily habits, the report tells you which behaviours to review first.

MyBrain
Online consultation

Ask directly, online, about how to read your report or about any change that concerns you. We stay with you after your examination, too.

About BrainSuite

Two ways to be examined

How to get examined

BrainSuite

Online ticket

Buy a ticket, pay in advance,
then have BrainSuite.

Who it suits

  • Individuals who want to give BrainSuite as a gift
  • Companies adding BrainSuite to employee benefits
  • Those who want the original programme
Steps
  1. ①Buy a ticket
  2. ↓
  3. ②Book with a partner institution
  4. ↓
  5. ③Have BrainSuite
  6. ↓
  7. ④Nothing to pay at the counter

※ If you have examinations other than BrainSuite, you pay for those at the counter.

Price19,800yen (including tax)
!Includes BrainUp, the hippocampus training app
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BrainSuite

At a medical institution

Have BrainSuite at a hospital,
as private care.

Who it suits

  • Those who want a brain screening or health check at the same time
  • Those who already have an institution to visit, for a company health check or similar
Steps
  1. ①Apply to the institution for a course or
    option that includes BrainSuite ※
  2. ↓
  3. ②Have BrainSuite and any other examinations
  4. ↓
  5. ③Pay at the counter

※ Courses vary: some include BrainSuite only,
others include BrainSuite together with further examinations.

PriceSet by each institution
Apply at a medical institution

BrainSuite stories

Experience story

Mr. Odo

What the BrainSuite examination taught me about living to a hundred (Japanese)

Mr. Odo, company owner and business adviser (40s, Okinawa)

 The Saigo mother and daughter

A mother and daughter take the examination together (Japanese)

Mariko and Kazuko Saigo, mother and daughter (40s and 70s, Kanagawa)

 Ms. Lin

Ms. Lin, from Taiwan, working in Shinjuku (Japanese)

Ms. Lin Ko-hsin (pseudonym), 42, female
More stories (Japanese)

Developed from joint research with
the Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

JOINT RESEARCH

BrainSuite was developed from joint research with the Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University. The interpretation of your results and the advice you receive are designed on the basis of research findings on hippocampal volume and daily habits.

Supervised by Yasuyuki Taki, Professor, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

Professor Yasuyuki Taki, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

Yasuyuki TakiPh.D. (Medicine)

Professor, Department of Aging Research and Geriatric Medicine, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

/ Founder and Technical Advisor, CogSmart Co., Ltd.

His research uses large-scale brain MRI databases to study brain development and aging.

The hippocampus is one of the brain regions known to be affected by daily habits (Japanese) Healthcare that starts with the brain — in conversation with Professor Yasuyuki Taki, Tohoku University (Japanese) What brain health means for everyday life — in conversation with Professor Taki, Tohoku University (Japanese)

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Follow-up after your BrainSuite examination

The hippocampus training appBrainUp

BrainUp is an app that lets you start building an exercise habit, enjoyably, on top of your daily life. You learn the BrainUp exercise, which raises your heart rate above a set level, and activate your hippocampus.

BrainUp is available to those who have been examined with a ticket.
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