New invention enables the blind to "see" the world
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2018-04-28
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“Glasses for the blind are changing constantly. The GPS has been incorporated into new versions and it is predicted that the state-of-the-art face-recognition software will tell the wearer who is standing in front of him,” said CHEN Zuobing, Director of the Rehabilitation Research & Development Center of the Industrial Technology Research Institute and Director of the Rehabilitation Medical Research Center of the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University.This pair of glasses is developed to ...
ZJU professor's depression research published in Nature
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2018-02-12
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According to the World Health Organization, depression is a common illness worldwide, with more than 300 million people affected. It can cause the affected person to suffer greatly and function poorly at work, at school and in the family. At its worst, depression can lead to suicide.Professor of Neurobiology HU Hailan has been doing impactful research into how emotional and social behaviors are encoded and regulated in the brain. On February 15, her team made a new breakthrough with tw...
ZJU doctors endeavor to fight Parkinson's disease
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2018-01-29
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In 1817, English doctor James Parkinson published an essay describing the characteristic resting tremor, abnormal posture and gait, paralysis and diminished muscle strength, and the way that the disease progresses over time. Hence this disease was named Parkinson’s disease (PD) in honor of James Parkinson.Illustration of Parkinson's disease by William Richard Gowers, first published in A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System (1886).“PD is a long-term degenerative disorder of the ce...