Recently, in a study on cerebral nervous system in mice employing two-photon laser scanning microscopy, he demonstrated the development of the cerebral functions, and further, that another part of the brain could subrogate, or take over, for capabilities lost by a section of the brain. Considering the rehabilitation that becomes necessary in patients after they have suffered a stroke (cerebral apoplexy), these findings are very important.

At the seminar held in March, he used a vivid video to show how microglia (a type of macrophage present in the nervous system) are important in the control of the development of synapses in the cerebral nervous system.