When facing life-threatening stimuli, animals show various types of fear behaviors, ranging from risk assessment and freezing to flight. Freezing, a passive coping strategy, is elicited when the danger stimulus is inescapable, whereas flight, an active defense response, is evoked when the stimulus is controllable or escapable.  The thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN), a shell-shaped nucleus located between the cortex and the thalamus, is composed of GABAergic neurons, among which parvalbu...

Recently, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University (SAHZU) signed an agreement with the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (RCP) of the UK to launch a joint teaching program, making it the first partner of the Federation in the Chinese mainland.The Federation, based in the UK and with international reach, is a partnership between the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and ...

On April 25, 2019, Hangzhou City celebrated the 100th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement and presented the “Ten Outstanding Young Talents Award”. Tim Clancy, an Australian student at Zhejiang University, won this coveted title. It is the first time that an overseas youngster has received this award. Tim Clancy is an undergraduate student majoring in clinical medicine. In his spare time, he dedicates himself to volunteer work and is thus hailed as a foreign “Lei Feng” in Hangzhou. Me...

Today is National Youth Day. It also marks the 100th anniversary of May Fourth Movement.ZJUers across the globe celebrate this special day with a classical patriotic song, “Sing in Praise of our Motherland”. With deep feelings of the new era, we yearn for a more glorious future of China.Guess who are the singers?Prof. LI Lanjuan, epidemiologist and member of Chinese Academy of EngineeringProf. TANG Xiaowei, nuclear and high-energy physicist, member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and ...

Aiming high, participating actively and sharing openlyOn April 25-26, the second Belt and Road Forum is hosted in Beijing, which takes stock of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) five years on and draw a new roadmap for the coming years. As an important part of BRI,“Belt and Road” Education Action Plan was published by Ministry of Education in 2016, which shows China’s determination to work with and expand people-to-people exchanges, strengthen cooperation in the cultivation of...

ZJU was named International Strategy of the Year at 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia on May 1. “It is only with the strategic thinking of our senior management team and joint efforts across the whole University that we are able to better embed international and intercultural dimensions into our education and research, and contribute to our global future,” said Dr. CHEN Weiying, deputy director of the Office of Global Engagement of ZJU. The judges said that they were...

Hi ZJUers!Let’s celebrate the start of a new month and the 4-day holiday break with these top Labor Day happenings in the city of Hangzhou. Enjoy diverse activities of the 15th China International Cartoon & Animation Festival at Xiaoshan District, or soar into the holiday via an exciting neon run at Xianghu Lake, the sister lake of West lake.More importantly, our congratulations to Prof. GAO Xiang and Prof. YANG Bo. Prof. GAO is titled with the honor of the National May 1 Labor Me...

“Please report the status of the patient.”MD LI Qiang in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU) talked to the remote paramedics in the 5G connected ambulance through real-time audio-video system. “The patient is in stable condition and there is no sign of increased abdominal bleeding,” the paramedic responded. Meanwhile the patient's data (blood pressure, heart rate and blood oxygen level) were transmitted to the hospital control center and ...

The brain is comprised of “cities” and “buildings” with different functions. Like “information roads”, numerous neural connections link them into a network. Based on the brain network, information is input from sensory organs and transmitted and processed in the brain. It ultimately produces memories, emotions, and behaviors. Therefore, understanding the brain calls for the command of the “traffic map", just as people should have a GPS when they travel. However, at present, there is ...

"What a beautiful and relaxing Sunday!" said HE Binjun, an international student from Thailand and member of ZJU International Tea Culture Club. An ice breaker was held by ITCC on April 21 for new members, where people played games and made new friends. Winners of the games were awarded prize like osmanthus Longjing tea and rose pu-erh tea, while those failed in the games had to drink kuding, a bitter tasting Chinese tea.Consisting of 92 members from 25 countries, ITCC of ZJU prov...