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Brain-Machine Interface Device Predicts Internal Speech
New Caltech research is showing how devices implanted into people’s brains, called brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), could one day help patients who have lost their ability to speak. In a new study presented at the 2022 Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, researchers demonstrated that they could use a BMI to accurately predict which words […]
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TCCI Investigator Identifies Important Switch for REM Sleep
Recently, Professor Huang Zhili, Director of the Department of Pharmacology at Fudan University and investigator at the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI) and his team, published a new study in the journal Cell Discovery, reporting a new nucleus that can terminate REM sleep and its neural circuit mechanism. Sleep accounts for one third […]
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TCCI Investigator Yu Jintai’s team Reveals the Correlation between Muscle Health and Dementia
A team led by Yu Jintai, professor at Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital and investigator at the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI), recently published a study in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia entitled ” Associations of grip strength, walking pace, and the risk of incident dementia: A prospective cohort study of 340,212 participants”. The study […]
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Using sound to model the world
Researchers at MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab are exploring the use of spatial acoustic information to help machines better envision their environments. They developed a machine-learning model that can capture how any sound in a room will propagate through the space, enabling the model to simulate what a listener would hear at different […]
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TCCI Researcher Develops New Dementia Risk Prediction Model
Recently, Jintai Yu, a professor at Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital and a researcher at the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI), co-authored a paper titled “Development of a Novel Dementia Risk Prediction Model in the General Population: A large, longitudinal, population-based machine-learning study” published in eClinicalMedicine, part of The Lancet. The study aims to develop […]
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A Behavioral Test to Detect Early Risk of Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition that damages a person’s ability to think, remember, and perform basic functions. According to the National Institutes of Health, Alzheimer’s affects more than 6 million Americans, mostly ages 65 and older. Though the neurological damage from the disease is irreversible, early detection and intervention has been shown to slow […]
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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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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 […]