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The neurobiologist studying how the brain changes as it ages

Xiaoming Zhou hopes his work will help to improve the health and welfare of China’s ageing population.
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  1. Sarah O’Meara

    1. Sarah O’Meara is a freelance journalist based in London.

Xiaoming Zhou is a neurobiologist at East China Normal University in Shanghai. Here he speaks to Nature about his research into age-related hearing loss, and explains why he hopes that brain training could help to lessen declines in sensory perception generally, and so ward off neurodegenerative diseases.

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Nature 578, S3 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00280-5

This interview was edited for length and clarity.

This article is part of Nature Spotlight on brain sciences in China, an editorially independent supplement. Advertisers have no influence over the content.

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