> Japanese scholars head to China
中國不斷優(yōu)化的科研環(huán)境正吸引日本青年學(xué)者

Motoyuki Hattori was a promising young scholar in Japan, held a position at the nation’s most elite university and had career prospects far more solid than those of his peers.
服部素之是一位杰出的日本青年學(xué)者，曾在日本最頂尖的大學(xué)任職，其職業(yè)前景遠(yuǎn)比同齡人更有前途。

But Hattori left Japan seven years ago for a professorship at a university in China.
但七年前服部離開了日本，前往中國一所大學(xué)任教。

Hattori, now 40, specializes in the structure and function of membrane transporters and wanted to quickly start his own laboratory.
現(xiàn)年40歲的服部專攻膜轉(zhuǎn)運蛋白的結(jié)構(gòu)和功能研究，他希望盡快建立個人實驗室。

This was possible at Fudan University in Shanghai.
在上海復(fù)旦大學(xué)，他的期望可以化為現(xiàn)實。

“In Japan’s academic culture, it usually takes 10 years or so until post-doctorate researchers can set up their own labs after completing the so-called ‘a(chǎn)pprenticeship’ period under professors,” he said in a recent online interview.
“在日本學(xué)術(shù)界中，博士后研究員通常需要10年左右才能完成所謂的教授‘學(xué)徒期’，此后才能建立個人實驗室?！彼谧罱淮尉€上采訪中說。

A number of Japanese scholars are opting to do research in China mainly because of something that most young workers want: job stability.
許多日本學(xué)者之所以選擇在中國開展科研工作，主要是因為這里可以為大多數(shù)年輕學(xué)者提供他們想要的：工作穩(wěn)定性。

Hattori noted the Chinese government has increased support to regional universities to raise academic standards across the country.
服部還指出，中國政府加大了對地方大學(xué)的支持力度，以提高全國的學(xué)術(shù)水平。

“It is essential for progress in science to have large numbers of scholars and to have them in broader areas,” he said. “It is the same as a mountain. The higher a mountain is, the larger its foundation is.”
“擁有大量的學(xué)者，并且讓學(xué)者們在更廣泛的領(lǐng)域開展研究，這對于科學(xué)進(jìn)步是至關(guān)重要的。”他說，“就好比一座山，山越高，山底的基石越龐大?！?/p>

>Brain stimulation can boost memory
研究發(fā)現(xiàn)腦部電刺激術(shù)可改善記憶力

As our brains work by firing off electrical impulses, a team at Boston University used this in order to test whether stimuli can boost one’s memory.
我們的大腦通過發(fā)送電脈沖來工作。美國波士頓大學(xué)研究團(tuán)隊就利用了這一原理來提高人們的記憶力。

They asked volunteers to wear a cap filled with electrodes, then used precise electrical currents to alter their brainwaves in 20-minute sessions of brain stimulation.
研究人員讓志愿者戴上一頂裝滿電極的帽子，然后用精確的電流改變其腦電波，對大腦進(jìn)行每次20分鐘的無創(chuàng)刺激。

These took place every day for four days, and the group's ability to remember a list of words was tested.
實驗連續(xù)進(jìn)行了四天，然后測試了志愿者們記憶一組單詞的能力。

The results, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, showed improvements in memory lasted at least a month.
測試的結(jié)果發(fā)表在《自然-神經(jīng)科學(xué)》期刊上，志愿者們記憶力改善的效果至少維持了一個月。

The researchers were able to boost volunteers’ long-term memory and also working memory, which is for the here and now.
研究人員能夠提高志愿者的長期記憶，同時還改善了工作記憶，就是用于記住此時此刻發(fā)生的事情的記憶。

The researchers are now investigating whether this technology can be used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, when brain cells have already started dying, as well as schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
研究人員正在研究這項技術(shù)能否用于治療患病時腦細(xì)胞已開始萎縮的阿爾茨海默病，以及精神分裂癥和強迫癥。

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