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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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Neuroscientists and game designers play well together: Collaboration creates better data, better games and real impact
Jessica Hammer thinks the most important technology for making games is the brain. The Thomas and Lydia Moran Associate Professor of Learning Science, jointly appointed in the HCI Institute and the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Hammer says “My games are designed to put the player into an altered state, so their brain […]
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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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Four TCCI-affiliated Caltech Researchers among Five to Receive NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Awards
Five Caltech researchers—four TCCI-affiliated faculty members and one postdoctoral scholar—have been awarded grants from the High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR) Program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These NIH Director’s Awards are “prestigious awards that are given to exceptionally creative scientists proposing high-risk, high-impact research at all career stages,” and were created “to support unconventional […]
