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TCCI Investigator Jintai Yu’s Team Publishes First Study on Correlation between Serum Clinical Laboratory Tests and Dementia
Recently, Jintai Yu, professor at Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital and a researcher at the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI), published a study titled “Serum clinical laboratory tests and risk of incident dementia: a prospective cohort study of 407190 individuals” in Translational Psychiatry. The study was designed to investigate the association of common serum laboratory […]
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Friend or Foe? How Mice Decide to Make Love or War
Dog owners whose pets meet during a walk are familiar with the immediate sniffing investigation that typically ensues. Initially, the owners cannot tell whether their dogs will wind up fighting, playing, or trying to mount each other. Something is clearly happening in the dog’s brain to make it decide how to behave toward the other […]
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TCCI Investigator Jintai Yu’s Team Reveals Distribution and Risk Factors of Alzheimer’s Disease Continuum in Northern Chinese Han Population
Recently, Jintai Yu, Professor at Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital and Investigator at Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute, published a paper titled Application of the Amyloid/Tau/Neurodegeneration Framework in Cognitively Intact Adults: The CABLE Study in the journal Annals of Neurology. The study aims to reveal the distribution and risk factors of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) continuum in […]
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Huberman Lab Podcast interviews David Anderson about the biology of violence, mating and arousal
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and tenured Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, interviews David Anderson, PhD, a world expert in the science of sexual behavior, violent aggression, fear and other motivated states on his podcast. Dr. Anderson is the Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology and Director and […]
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How Fruit Flies Sniff Out Their Environments
Fruit flies—Drosophila melanogaster—have a complicated relationship with carbon dioxide. In some contexts, CO2 indicates the presence of tasty food sources as sugar-fermenting yeast in fruit produces the molecule as a by-product. But in other cases, CO2 can be a warning to stay away, signaling an oxygen-poor or overcrowded environment with too many other flies. How […]
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World Artificial Intelligence Conference Holds First Brain Computer Interface Forum
On September 2, 2022, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI) Translational Center worked with Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, NeuroXess, Chinese Neuroscience Society and Shanghai Society for Neuroscience to host a first-of-its-kind forum featuring “Brain-Computer Interface Ushers in A New Future for Human Brain” during WAIC 2022. Professor Jinbo Hu, Director of […]
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2022 TCCI Fall Newsletter
Summer has gone by all too fast but as we shift into the Fall season, we’re happy to share with you our news from the last few months. As always, there is a lot to report but we’d like to highlight a few things in particular
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Caltech to Study How the Brain Responds to Virtual Environments
The rise of social media has meant that social and professional interactions are increasingly carried out online. This trend is expected to continue in the coming decades, as the digital world becomes more immersive and realistic. To understand how the human brain might be affected by this shift, Dean Mobbs, professor of cognitive neuroscience, is […]
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Cell Reports: Wei Lu and Tifei Yuan Collaborate on Research in New Mechanism behind Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Consolidation
August 16, 2022. A research group led by Dr. Wei Lu from Fudan University and Southeast University collaborated with a group led by Tifei Yuan, a Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute Investigator, professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and doctoral supervisor at Shanghai Mental Health Center, to publish a paper in Cell Reports titled Trafficking […]
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TCCI for Neuroscience Holds Inaugural “Data Science and AI for Neuroscience” Summer School
