| Themes | Coders | Total (%) | China (%) | Japan (%) |
| What are brain and mind | Brain tumor | 2 (0.7) | 2 (1.1) | 0 (0) |
| Cerebral injury | 58 (26.1) | 42 (23) | 16 (40) | |
| Encephala trophy | 42 (18.9) | 40 (22) | 2 (5) | |
| Cerebral apoplexy | 46 (21.0) | 40 (22) | 6 (15) | |
| Brain health care | 52 (23.4) | 40 (22) | 12 (30) | |
| Traditional Chinese medicine | 4 (2) | 4 (2.2) | 0 (0) | |
| Brain death | 18 (8) | 14 (8) | 4 (10) | |
| Total |
| 222 (28.6) | 182 (41.4) | 40 (11.9) |
| What brain and mind do | Brain wave research | 86 (39) | 32 (35) | 54 (42) |
| Near-death experience | 10 (5) | 8 (9) | 2 (2) | |
| Animals’ brain researches | 30 (14) | 14 (15) | 16 (13) | |
| Brain scan (i.e. fMRI) | 92 (42) | 38 (41) | 54 (42) | |
| Total |
| 218 (28.1) | 92 (20.9) | 126 (37.5) |
| Philosophical or existential implications | Self-consciousness based on the brain activities | 46 (53) | 22 (55) | 24 (52) |
| Doubt about the consciousness after death | 12 (14) | 8 (20) | 4 (8.7) | |
| Doubt about the soul | 12 (14) | 8 (20) | 4 (8.7) | |
| Subjective experience (i.e. sprit is out of body experience) | 14 (16) | 2 (5) | 12 (26.1) | |
| Discussion about the after death world | 2 (2) | 0 (0) | 2 (4.3) | |
| Total |
| 86 (11.1) | 40 (9.1) | 46 (13.7) |
| Sociological implications | AI | 62 (48) | 14 (29.2) | 48 (60) |
| Smart home (i.e. Intelligent home system) | 10 (7.8) | 4 (8.3) | 6 (7.5) | |
| Military | 6 (4.7) | 6 (12.5) | 0 (0) | |
| Driverless car | 6 (4.7) | 6 (12.5) | 0 (0) | |
| New media (i.e. virtual reality) | 20 (15.6) | 8 (16.7) | 12 (15) | |
| Medical care | 24 (18.8) | 10 (20.8) | 14 (17.5) | |
| Total |
| 128 (16.5) | 48 (10.9) | 80 (23.8) |
| Practical implications | Improvement of first aid | 44 (36) | 36 (46.2) | 8 (18.2) |
| Efficiency improvement (i.e. the disabled) | 56 (45) | 24 (28.2) | 32 (72.7) | |
| Sleeping insurance (i.e. the sleeping time of night shift workers) | 22 (18) | 18 (23.1) | 4 (9.1) | |
| Total |
| 122 (15.7) | 78 (17.8) | 44 (13.1) |
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| 776 | 440 | 336 |