With an average age of 36, cooperation with more than 20 internationally renowned universities and research institutes, more than 130 international scholars from all over the world to participate in research programs and projects at all levels, and integration of nearly one million pieces of data from the world's largest brain database... This is what the "Dream Team", a 29-member group that has been formed for only three years, has achieved, who study the most cutting-edge issues in the brain science, and have produced a large number of "top-of-the-road" achievements. This is their belief. The leader of the team is Professor Feng Jianfeng, Dean of the Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence of Fudan University. He said that the future of the brain science in the future lies in the inter-disciplines.
The construction of "Brain and Brain-Inspired Intelligence International Innovation Center" of Fudan University is progressing steadily. The first batch of imaging research equipment has been stationed in Zhangjiang International Brain Imaging Center.
The Launch Event for "Brain and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Transformation Application Research" Shanghai Municipal-level Science and Technology Major Project was held. This large project will bring new opportunities for Feng Jianfeng and his research team.
Engaged in the field of brain-inspired intelligence research for more than a decade, Feng Jianfeng has always wanted to understand a very "simple" question: What is intelligence? The answer to the essence of "intelligence" is set by Feng Jianfeng as a long-term goal. As the peak of science always needs a ladder to get the level up, the research on brain-inspired intelligence is the ladder he climbs up with. Brain-inspired intelligence research is widely used in the field of speech recognition, machine translation and other fields of deep learning, which is a good example, as the essence is the simulation of the visual system of human.
But the brain is too complicated. How can we help machines learn the "intelligence" we own biologically? Feng Jianfeng said that the "illed brain" has provided them with research objects.
In 2016, Feng Jianfeng's team discovered that the most fundamental cause of depression is being uninterested in rewards and being too sensitive to punishment. Recently, further research has shown that the area of the brain that regulates the quality of sleep is exactly the same area where depression patients show too much sensitivity for punishment. Smoking reduces the sensitivity of the brain to punishment, and drinking increases the sensitivity of the brain to rewards, which is just the opposite of the brain connectome of depressed patients.
