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Can Patients in a Vegetative State Understand Language?
Professor Mao Ying, Director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research, and other members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neurology published the paper ” Assessing the Depth of Language Processing in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness ” online in Nature Neuroscience on May 25. The study used high-density EEG […]
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New Insights into Early Embryonic Development
Caltech researchers have new insights into the embryo’s architecture and the structures that enable proper development at a very early stage. The research was done in the laboratory of Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering and affiliated faculty member with the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience. A paper describing the study appears in the […]
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Seeing through opaque media
Caltech researchers have developed a technique combining fluorescence and ultrasound to peer through opaque media, such as biological tissue. Changhuei Yang, Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Medical Engineering, and senior author of a paper about the technique says they hope this method will one day be deployed to extend the operating […]
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New Ultrafast Camera Takes 70 Trillion Pictures Per Second
A new camera developed in the lab of Lihong Wang, Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering in the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, is capable of taking as many as 70 trillion frames per second. That is fast enough to see waves of light traveling and the fluorescent decay of […]
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Understanding Congenital Heart Defects, One Chicken at a Time
Approximately 10 percent of infants are born with a congenital heart defect, with one of the most common being persistent truncus arteriosus—a hole in the heart. New research conducted in the Caltech laboratory of Marianne Bronner, Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology and director of the Beckman Institute uses chicken embryos as a model organism, to discover the […]
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Doris Tsao, inducted to the National Academy of Sciences
Doris Tsao, professor of biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and director and leadership chair of the T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience, was one of two Caltech faculty members inducted as the newest members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) this year. Membership in the academy is considered one of the highest honors […]
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High-Throughput Method Speeds Discovery of Improved Vectors For Gene Delivery To Diverse Brain Cell Types
Viruses are nature’s Trojan horses: They gain entrance to cells, smuggle in their genetic material, and use the cell’s own machinery to replicate. For decades, scientists have studied how to repurpose these invaders to deliver therapeutics for treating disease and tools for studying cells. Researchers in the lab of Viviana Gradinaru, professor of neuroscience and […]
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An Invisible Threat: Fear and Anxiety in the Era of the Coronavirus
Dean Mobbs, assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience and Chen Scholar at Caltech explains the brain circuitry that is causing many of us to feel heightened anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic. He calls the coronavirus an “invisible threat” and says that it causes us to seek out information on media sites about how to prevent it, […]
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Money on the Mind: An interview with Colin Camerer
Colin Camerer is a behavioral economist and the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics at Caltech. He is also the Director of the T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience. Money on the Mind interviews him to learn more about the rapidly expanding field of behavioral science as well as his passions and interests. Listen to the […]
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Watch and Learn: Study Shows How Brain Gains Knowledge Through Observation
It has long been the belief that there are two types of observational learning: imitation and emulation. Research led by Caroline Charpentier, a postdoctoral scholar in neuroscience at Caltech, now shows how the brain chooses between the two neural systems responsible for each of these kinds of learning. The study, which appears in the journal Neuron, […]