Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology aims at helping severely motor disabled people like the physicist Stephen Hawking, due to diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or spinal cord injury, etc.
New connections between brain cells emerge in clusters in the brain as animals learn to perform a new task, according to a study published inNature on February 19 (advance online publication).
One fundamental question in neuroscience is how the brain processes and stores information. As the information-processing elements in the brain, neurons communicate via specialized connections called synapses.
Xiao-Jing Wang, Professor of Neurobiology and Physics, Director of Swartz Center of Theoretical Neuroscience, Yale University, USA
Biyu Jade He, Ph.D.(Early Independent Investigator, NIH/NINDS, USA)
Xiaowei Chen (Technical University Munich &. Third Military Medical University); Bo Hong (Tsinghua University)
Dr. Xiaodong Liu‘s Lab, Dr. Xiaorong Gao‘s Lab