Zhi Yang Ph.D

E-mail

yangz@smhc.org.cn

Scholar Pages

CV

CV_ZhiYang_202205: English Version; Chinese Version

Education

Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Visiting Student, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Work Experience

2018-Present: Professor, Institute of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
2018-Present: Director, Neuroimaging Data Center, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China.
2017-Present: Principle Investigator, Psychological Health and Imaging Group, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China.
2015-2018: Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
2012-2017: Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
2012-2014: Senior Research Fellow, National Institutes of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
2008-2012: Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Research Funds

Regular Project (81971682), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Individualized diagnosis of mental disorders based on cross-disease neuroiamging database, Role: PI, CNY 660,000. 2020-2023.
Regular Project (81571756), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Detecting subtypes of schizophrenia using neuroimaging under natural stimulus, Role: PI, CNY 672,000. 2016-2019.
Renewed Regular Project (81270023), National Natural Science Foundation of China, The specificity of the neuroimaging biomarkers for mental disorders, Role: PI, CNY 700,000. 2013-2016.
Young Investigator Project (30900366), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Data-driven neuroimaging marker research on clas- sification of mental disorders, Role: PI, CNY 210,000. 2010-2012.
Original Exploration Project (20ZR1472800), Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, A Study on the Relationship between Adolescents’ Taste Perception and Anxiety and Its Brain Mechanism, Role: PI, CNY 500,000. 2020-2023.
Beijing Nova Program (2015079B), Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Techology, Neuroimaging biomarkers for mental disorders: methodologies for the big data era, Role: PI, CNY 350,000. 2015-2017.
Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Grant Support (20171929), Shanghai Municipal Commission of Education, Neuroimaging markers for schizophrenia, Role: PI, CNY 1,000,000. 2017-2020.
Hundred-talent Fund (2018BR17), Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health, Brain development abnormality in social anxiety disorder, Role: PI, CNY 900,000. 2018-2021.
Youth Innovation Fundation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Role: PI, CNY 400,000. 2015-2019.
Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Data-ming framework for brain network in- formed subject community detection, Role: PI, CNY 400,000. 2014-2019.
The National Basic Research Program of China (The 973 Program)(2007CB512300), Mechanism of genetic-environment interactions in depression and schizophrenia, Role: Participant, Undercontract: CNY 100,000. 2007-2011

Teaching Experience

2018-2020: Introduction to Psychology, Undergraduate course, 30 hours, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
2008-2020: Statistics for Psychological Research, Graduate course, 60 hours, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2012-2020: Advanced Statistics and Machine Learning, Graduate course, 60 hours, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2008-2010: Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate course, 60 hours, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2008-2020: Brain Development and Learning, Graduate course, 40 hours, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2015-2016: Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate course, 48 hours, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Awards and Honors

2018 Hundred-talent Award, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health
2017 Second Prize in Science and Technology Progress Award, Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Techology
2017 Chenguang Prize for Academic Excellency, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univer- sity
2016 Elected Member of Youth Innovation Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2015 First Prize in Science and Technology Progress Award, The Ministry of Education of China
2015 Beijing Nova Program, Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Techology
2014 Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2009–2011 Excellent Assistant Professor Award, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publications

2022

Zhang, H., Li, J., Su, X., Hu, Y., Liu, T., Ni, S., Li, H., Zuo, X.-N., Fu, J., Yuan, T.-F., Yang, Z., 2022. Growth charts of brain morphometry for preschool children. NeuroImage 255, 119178. full text
Ding, Y., Liu, J., Zhang, X., Yang, Z., 2022. Dynamic Tracking of State Anxiety via Multi-Modal Data and Machine Learning. Front. Psychiatry 13, 757961. full text
Zhang, Q., Li, B., Jin, S., Liu, W., Liu, J., Xie, S., Zhang, L., Kang, Y., Ding, Y., Zhang, X., Cheng, W., Yang, Z., 2022. Comparing the Effectiveness of Brain Structural Imaging, Resting-state fMRI, and Naturalistic fMRI in Recognizing Social Anxiety Disorder in Children and Adolescents. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 111485. full text

2021

Xie, S., Zhang, X., Cheng, W., Yang, Z., 2021. Adolescent anxiety disorders and the developing brain: comparing neuroimaging findings in adolescents and adults. Gen Psych 34, e100411. full text
Li, Q., Jiang, L., Qiao, K., Hu, Y., Chen, B., Zhang, X., Ding, Y., Yang, Z., Li, C., 2021. INCloud: integrated neuroimaging cloud for data collection, management, analysis and clinical translations. Gen Psych 34, e100651. full text
Hu, Y., Yang, Z., 2021. Impact of inter-individual variability on the estimation of default mode network in temporal concatenation group ICA. Neuroimage 237, 118114. full text
Xu, Z., Zhang, Xiaoyun, Chang, H., Kong, Y., Ni, Y., Liu, R., Zhang, Xiaolin, Hu, Y., Yang, Z., Hou, M., Mao, R., Liu, W.-T., Du, Y., Yu, S., Wang, Z., Ji, M., Zhou, Z., 2021. Rescue of maternal immune activation-induced behavioral abnormalities in adult mouse offspring by pathogen-activated maternal Treg cells. Nat Neurosci 24, 818–830. full text
Zeng, Y., Tao, F., Cui, Z., Wu, L., Xu, J., Dong, W., Liu, C., Yang, Z., Qin, S., 2021. Dynamic integration and segregation of amygdala subregional functional circuits linking to physiological arousal. NeuroImage 238, 118224. full text
Jiang, L., Cui, H., Zhang, C., Cao, X., Gu, N., Zhu, Y., Wang, J., Yang, Z., Li, C., 2021. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Improving Cognitive Function in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 12, 593000. full text

2020

Gao, J., Chen, G., Wu, J., Wang, Y., Hu, Y., Xu, T., Zuo, X., Yang, Z., 2020. Reliability map of individual differences reflected in inter-subject correlation in naturalistic imaging. Neuroimage 223, 117277. full text
Zhang, Y., Liu, W., Lebowitz, E.R., Zhang, F., Hu, Y., Liu, Z., Yang, H., Wu, J., Wang, Y., Silverman, W.K., Yang, Z., Cheng, W., 2020. Abnormal asymmetry of thalamic volume moderates stress from parents and anxiety symptoms in children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder. Neuropharmacology.full text
Cheng, W., Zhang, F., Liu, Z., Zhang, H., Lyu, Y., Xu, H., Hua, Y., Gu, J., Yang, Z., Liu, J., 2020. A psychological health support scheme for medical teams in COVID-19 outbreak and its effectiveness. Gen. Psychiatry 33, e100288. full text
Guo, Q., Hu, Y., Zeng, B., Tang, Y., Li, G., Zhang, T., Wang, Jinhong, Northoff, G., Li, C., Goff, D., Wang, Jijun, Yang, Z., 2020. Parietal memory network and default mode network in first‐episode drug‐naïve schizophrenia: Associations with auditory hallucination. Hum. Brain Mapp. hbm.24923. full text
Liu, Z., Hu, Y., Zhang, Y., Liu, W., Zhang, L., Wang, Y., Yang, H., Wu, J., Cheng, W., Yang, Z., 2020. Altered gray matter volume and structural co-variance in adolescents with social anxiety disorder: Evidence for a delayed and unsynchronized development of the fronto-limbic system. Psychol. Med. full text
Cheng, W., Zhang, F., Hua, Y., Yang, Z., Liu, J., 2020. Development of a psychological first-aid model in inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Gen. Psychiatry. full text
Cui, H., Zhang, B., Li, W., Li, H., Pang, J., Hu, Q., Zhang, L., Tang, Y., Yang, Z., Wang, J., Li, C., Northoff, G., 2020. Insula shows abnormal task-evoked and resting-state activity in first-episode drug-naïve generalized anxiety disorder. Depress. Anxiety 37, 632–644. full text

2019

Zhang, Y., Xu, L., Hu, Y., Wu, J., Li, C., Wang, J., Yang, Z., 2019. Functional Connectivity Between Sensory-Motor Subnetworks Reflects the Duration of Untreated Psychosis and Predicts Treatment Outcome of First-Episode Drug-Naïve Schizophrenia. Biol. Psychiatry Cogn. Neurosci. Neuroimaging 4, 697–705. full text
Yang, Z., Wu, J., Xu, L., Deng, Z., Tang, Y., Gao, J., Hu, Y., Zhang, Y., Qin, S., Li, C., Wang, J., 2019. Individualized psychiatric imaging based on inter-subject neural synchronization in movie watching. Neuroimage 216, 116227. full text
Xu, T., Zhao, Q., Wang, P., Fan, Q., Chen, J., Zhang, H., Yang, Z., Stein, D.J., Wang, Z., 2019. Altered resting-state cerebellar-cerebral functional connectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychol. Med. 49, 1156–1165. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718001915
Jiang, L., Cao, X., Jiang, J., Li, T., Wang, J., Yang, Z., Li, C., 2019. Atrophy of hippocampal subfield CA2/3 in healthy elderly men is related to educational attainment. Neurobiol. Aging 80, 21–28. full text
Deng, Z., Wu, J., Gao, J., Hu, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, Y., Dong, H., Yang, Z., Zuo, X., 2019. Segregated precuneus network and default mode network in naturalistic imaging. Brain Struct. Funct. 224, 3133–3144. full text
Zhao, Q., Xu, T., Wang, Y., Chen, D., Liu, Q., Yang, Z., Wang, Z., 2019. Limbic cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical functional connectivity in drug-naïve patients of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychol. Med. 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719002988
Hu, Y., Du, W., Zhang, Y., Li, N., Han, Y., Yang, Z., 2019. Loss of Parietal Memory Network Integrity in Alzheimer’s Disease. Front. Aging Neurosci. 11, 1–15. full text

2018

Wang, J., Hu, Y., Li, H., Ge, L., Li, J., Cheng, L., Yang, Z., Zuo, X., Xu, Y., 2018. Connecting Openness and the Resting-State Brain Network: A Discover-Validate Approach. Front. Neurosci. 12, 1–9. full text
Sun, L., Xu, H., Zhang, J., Li, W., Nie, J., Qiu, Q., Liu, Y., Fang, Y., Yang, Z., Li, X., Xiao, S., 2018. Alcohol consumption and subclinical findings on cognitive function, biochemical indexes, and cortical anatomy in cognitively normal aging Han Chinese Population. Front. Aging Neurosci. 10, 1–7. full text

2017

Syed, M.A., Yang, Z., Hu, X.P., Deshpande, G., 2017. Investigating Brain Connectomic Alterations in Autism Using the Reproducibility of Independent Components Derived from Resting State Functional MRI Data. Front. Neurosci. 11, 459. full text
Liu, S., Wang, L., Lin, S., Yang, Z., Wang, X., 2017. Analysis and prediction of team performance based on interaction networks, in: Chinese Control Conference, CCC. pp. 11250–11255. full text
Wei, G.-X., Gong, Z.-Q., Yang, Z., Zuo, X.-N., 2017. Mind-Body Practice Changes Fractional Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuations in Intrinsic Control Networks. Front. Psychol. 8. full text
Zhu, Y., Yang, Z., Zhao, J., Li, T., Wang, M., Qian, J., Jiang, Y., Wang, J., Weng, X., Yu, D., Li, C., 2017. Can interpersonal hypersensitivity under subconscious condition explain paranoid symptom in schizophrenia? Asia-Pacific Psychiatry 9, e12221. full text

2016

Yang, Z., Zuo, X-N., McMahon, K,L., Craddock, R.C., Kelly, C., de Zubicaray, G.I., Hickie, I., Bandettini, P.A., Castellanos, F.X., Milham, M.P., Wright, M.J. (2016). Genetic and environmental contributions to functional connectivity architecture of the human brain. Cerebral Cortex. 26:2341-2352. full text
Hu, Y., Wang, J., Li, C., Wang, Y.S., Yang, Z., Zuo, X.N., 2016. Segregation between the parietal memory network and the default mode network: effects of spatial smoothing and model order in ICA. Sci. Bull. 61, 1844–1854. full text
Yang, Z., Qiu, J., Wang, P., Liu, R., Zuo, X.N., 2016. Brain structure–function associations identified in large-scale neuroimaging data. Brain Struct. Funct. 221, 4459–4474. full text

2015

Wu, J., Zhang, S., Li, W., Qin, S., He, Y., Yang, Z., Buchanan, T.W., Liu, C., Zhang, K., 2015. Cortisol awakening response predicts intrinsic functional connectivity of the medial prefrontal cortex in the afternoon of the same day. Neuroimage 122. full text
Yang, Z., Zuo, X-N., 2015. Big neuroimaging data-informed mind-brain association studies: Methodology and applications. Chinese Sci. Bull. (Chinese Version) 60, 966. full text
Chen, B., Xu, T., Zhou, C., Wang, L., Yang, N., Wang, Z., Dong, H.M., Yang, Z., Zang, Y.F., Zuo, X.N., Weng, X.C., 2015. Individual variability and test-retest reliability revealed by ten repeated resting-state brain scans over one month. PLoS One 10, 1–21. full text
Jiang, L., Hou, X.H., Yang, N., Yang, Z., Zuo, X.N., 2015. Examination of local functional homogeneity in autism. Biomed Res. Int. 2015, 12–14. full text
Jiang, L., Xu, Y., Zhu, X.-T., Yang, Z., Li, H.-J., Zuo, X.-N., 2015. Local-to-remote cortical connectivity in early- and adulthood-onset schizophrenia. Transl. Psychiatry 5, e566–e566. full text
Xu, T., Yang, Z., Jiang, L., Xing, X.X., Zuo, X.N., 2015. A Connectome Computation System for discovery science of brain. Sci. Bull. 60, 86–95. full text

2014

Yang, Z., Chang, C., Xu, T., Jiang, L., Handwerker, D.A., Castellanos, F.X., Milham, M.P., Bandettini, P.A., Zuo, X.N., 2014a. Connectivity trajectory across lifespan differentiates the precuneus from the default network. Neuroimage 89, 45–56. full text
Yang, Z., Xu, Y., Xu, T., Hoy, C.W., Handwerker, D.A., Chen, G., Northoff, G., Zuo, X.-N.N., Bandettini, P.A., 2014b. Brain network informed subject community detection in early-onset schizophrenia. Sci. Rep. 4. full text
Yang, Z., Huang, Z., Gonzalez-Castillo, J., Dai, R., Northoff, G., Bandettini, P., 2014. Using fMRI to decode true thoughts independent of intention to conceal. Neuroimage 99, 80–92. full text
Zuo, X.-N., Anderson, J.S., Bellec, P., Birn, R.M., Biswal, B.B., Blautzik, J., Breitner, J.C.S., Buckner, R.L., Calhoun, V.D., Castellanos, F.X., Chen, A., Chen, B., Chen, J., Chen, X., Colcombe, S.J., Courtney, W., Craddock, R.C., Di Martino, A., Dong, H.-M., Fu, X., Gong, Q., Gorgolewski, K.J., Han, Y., He, Ye, He, Yong, Ho, E., Holmes, A., Hou, X.-H., Huckins, J., Jiang, T., Jiang, Y., Kelley, W., Kelly, C., King, M., LaConte, S.M., Lainhart, J.E., Lei, X., Li, H.-J., Li, Kaiming, Li, Kuncheng, Lin, Q., Liu, D., Liu, J., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Lu, G., Lu, J., Luna, B., Luo, J., Lurie, D., Mao, Y., Margulies, D.S., Mayer, A.R., Meindl, T., Meyerand, M.E., Nan, W., Nielsen, J.A., O’Connor, D., Paulsen, D., Prabhakaran, V., Qi, Z., Qiu, J., Shao, C., Shehzad, Z., Tang, W., Villringer, A., Wang, H., Wang, K., Wei, D., Wei, G.-X., Weng, X.-C., Wu, X., Xu, T., Yang, N., Yang, Z., Zang, Y.-F., Zhang, L., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Zhe, Zhang, Zhiqiang, Zhao, K., Zhen, Z., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X.-T., Milham, M.P., 2014. An open science resource for establishing reliability and reproducibility in functional connectomics. Sci. Data 1, 140049. full text
Huang, Z., Dai, R., Wu, Xuehai, Yang, Z., Liu, D., Hu, J., Gao, L., Tang, W., Mao, Y., Jin, Y., Wu, Xing, Liu, B., Zhang, Y., Lu, L., Laureys, S., Weng, X., Northoff, G., 2014. The self and its resting state in consciousness: An investigation of the vegetative state. Hum. Brain Mapp. 35, 1997–2008. full text
Jiang, L., Xu, T., He, Ye, Hou, X.H., Wang, J., Cao, X.Y., Wei, G.X., Yang, Z., He, Yong, Zuo, X.N., 2014. Toward neurobiological characterization of functional homogeneity in the human cortex: regional variation, morphological association and functional covariance network organization. Brain Struct. Funct. 220, 2485–2507. full text
Tang, L.-R., Liu, C.-H., Jing, B., Ma, X., Li, H.-Y., Zhang, Y., Li, F., Wang, Y.-P., Yang, Z., Wang, C.-Y., 2014. Voxel-based morphometry study of the insular cortex in bipolar depression. Psychiatry Res. Neuroimaging 224, 89–95. full text
Wei, G.X., Dong, H.M., Yang, Z., Luo, J., Zuo, X.N., 2014. Tai Chi Chuan optimizes the functional organization of the intrinsic human brain architecture in older adults. Front. Aging Neurosci. 6, 1–10. full text
Yang, Z., Wu, P., Weng, X., Bandettini, P.A., 2014. Cerebellum engages in automation of verb-generation skill. J. Integr. Neurosci. 13, 1–17. full text

2013

Wang, M., Zhao, J., Qian, J., Zhu, Y., Yang, Z., Jiang, Y., Wang, J., Du, Y., Weng, X., Li, C., 2013. Binocular rivalry in children with schizophrenia: the conscious and unconscious cognitive processing of interpersonal information. Shanghai Arch. Psychiatry 25, 157–164. full text
Li, S., Lee, K., Zhao, J., Yang, Z., He, S., Weng, X., 2013. Neural competition as a developmental process: Early hemispheric specialization for word processing delays specialization for face processing. Neuropsychologia 51, 950–959. full text
Liu, C.H., Ma, X., Wu, X., Zhang, Y., Zhou, F.C., Li, F., Tie, C. Le, Dong, J., Wang, Y.J., Yang, Z., Wang, C.Y., 2013. Regional homogeneity of resting-state brain abnormalities in bipolar and unipolar depression. Prog. Neuro-Psychopharmacology Biol. Psychiatry 41, 52–59. full text
Wei, G.X., Xu, T., Fan, F.M., Dong, H.M., Jiang, L.L., Li, H.J., Yang, Z., Luo, J., Zuo, X.N., 2013. Can Taichi Reshape the Brain? A Brain Morphometry Study. PLoS One 8. full text
Zuo, X-N., Xu, T., Jiang, L., Yang, Z., Cao, X.Y., He, Y., Zang, Y.F., Castellanos, F.X., Milham, M.P., 2013. Toward reliable characterization of functional homogeneity in the human brain: Preprocessing, scan duration, imaging resolution and computational space. Neuroimage 65, 374–386. full text

2012 and before

Yang, Z., Zuo, X.N., Wang, P., Li, Z., LaConte, S.M., Bandettini, P.A., Hu, X.P., 2012. Generalized RAICAR: Discover homogeneous subject (sub)groups by reproducibility of their intrinsic connectivity networks. Neuroimage 63, 403–414. full text
Liu, C.H., Li, F., Li, S.F., Wang, Y.J., Tie, C. Le, Wu, H.Y., Zhou, Z., Zhang, D., Dong, J., Yang, Z., Wang, C.Y., 2012. Abnormal baseline brain activity in bipolar depression: A resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Psychiatry Res. - Neuroimaging 203, 175–179. full text
Yang, Z., Fang, F., Weng, X., 2012. Recent developments in multivariate pattern analysis for functional MRI. Neurosci. Bull. 28, 399–408. full text
Xu, G., Jiang, Y., Ma, L., Yang, Z., Weng, X., 2012. Similar spatial patterns of neural coding of category selectivity in FFA and VWFA under different attention conditions. Neuropsychologia 50, 862–868. full text
Yang, Z., Zhao, J., Jiang, Y., Li, C., Wang, J., Weng, X., Northoff, G., 2011. Altered negative unconscious processing in major depressive disorder: an exploratory neuropsychological study. PLoS One 6, e21881. full text
Huang, Z., Zhang, J.X., Yang, Z., Dong, G., Wu, J., Chan, a S., Weng, X., 2010. Verbal memory retrieval engages visual cortex in musicians. Neuroscience 168, 179–89. full text
Yang, Z., LaConte, S., Weng, X., Hu, X., 2008. Ranking and averaging independent component analysis by reproducibility (RAICAR). Hum. Brain Mapp. 29, 711–725. full text