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2022 TCCI Fall Newsletter
Summer has gone by all too fast but as we shift into the Fall season, we’re happy to share with you our news from the last few months. As always, there is a lot to report but we’d like to highlight a few things in particular
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Caltech to Study How the Brain Responds to Virtual Environments
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 […]
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Cell Reports: Wei Lu and Tifei Yuan Collaborate on Research in New Mechanism behind Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Consolidation
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 […]
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A Large-Scale Prospective Cohort Study on Dementia Reveals Three Cups of Tea Per Day Produces the Strongest Protective Effect
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 […]
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Automated intraoperative central sulcus localization and somatotopic mapping using median nerve stimulation
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) […]
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TCCI for Neuroscience Holds Inaugural “Data Science and AI for Neuroscience” Summer School
The inaugural Chen Institute Data Science and AI for Neuroscience Summer School took place July 5 – 15, 2022 at the historic Seeley Mudd estate in San Marino. Over the nine days, Caltech neuroscience graduate students and postdocs learned cutting-edge computational methods in data science and machine learning. Instructors included both Caltech and visiting […]
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Cataracts May Increase Risk of Incident Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study by Chinese Scholars
Are cataracts associated with dementia? Chinese scholars discovered through a prospective cohort study of more than 300,000 participants that cataracts can lead to structural changes and a reduction in size of the hippocampus, an important brain region associated with the visual cortex and cognition. Their research indicated that timely surgical treatment for cataract patients is […]
