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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 […]

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 […]

Dementia is an important public health concern with about 55 million cases worldwide and an incidence of more than 10 million new cases each year. Dementia has become a major cause of disability, dependency and mortality among older people. Emerging research, from animal experiments and cohort studies, however, indicates that drinking either green or black […]

The central sulcus (CS) is an important landmark in the brain that delineates functional cortical regions essential in neurological resection or surgery. Dr. Gerwin Schalk, Director of the Chen Frontier Lab for Applied Neurotechnology, and a team of scientists and researchers from other universities developed a new, automated procedure that uses median nerve stimulation (MNS) […]