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New Insights into the Neuroscience Behind Conscious Awareness of Choice
When you absentmindedly reach out to pick up your cup of coffee and take a sip, what happens in your brain? Many studies have shown that brain activity begins to ramp up even before you are aware of your choice to move. But this poses a conundrum: Do we have free will to make our […]
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Decoding Movement and Speech from the Brain of a Tetraplegic Person
Every year, the lives of hundreds of thousands of people are severely disrupted when they lose the ability to move or speak as a result of spinal injury, stroke, or neurological diseases. At Caltech, neuroscientists in the laboratory of Richard Andersen, James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, and Leadership Chair and Director of the Tianqiao […]
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Promoting computational psychiatry in China
Computational psychiatry holds promise for basic research and clinical practice in safeguarding mental health. In a paper recently published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, TCCI scientist and Director of Academic Operations, Haiyang Geng and his colleagues discuss why China needs computational psychiatry, why its development in China will benefit the field globally and the […]
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Risk Factors for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents: A meta-analysis
Recently, Professor Yuan Tifei, TCCI Investigator and member of Shanghai Mental Health Center, Professor Shaohua Hu of The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine and a team of investigators led by Dongwu Xu at the School of Mental Health and The Affiliated Wenzhou Kangning Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, co-authored an article […]