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2024

July 2024: The paper “Deep brain stimulation of habenula reduces depressive symptoms and modulates brain activities in treatment resistant depression” is published at Nature Mental Health!

September 2024: Welcome Huijuan Zhang (Assistant Professor), Ruidi Wang (Postdoc), Jie Chen (PhD student), Tengyun Zhao (Master student), Chenyun You (Master student), Shijiani Li (Master student), and Mingyan Jiang (Master student) joining us!

February 2024: The paper “Morphological and genetic decoding shows heterogeneous patterns of brain aging in chronic musculoskeletal pain” is published at Nature Mental Health!

February 2024: Welcome Yuanxiang Li (Visiting student) and Ruihua Liu (Visiting student) joining us!

2023

November 2023: Tu lab invited Dr. Yuanning Li to give a talk “Neural coding and AI models of human natural speech perception and production”.

November 2023: Our paper “Multimodal covarying brain patterns mediate genetic and psychological contributions to individual differences in pain sensitivity” is published at Pain!

October 2023: The paper “Pain-preferential thalamocortical neural dynamics across species” co-authored with Huli lab is published at Nature Human Behaviour!

September 2023: Tu lab invited Dr. Ye Ella Tian to give a talk “Connecting the brain with body in neuroimaging research and its implication in neuropsychiatry”.

August 2023: Dr. Tu received National Excellent Young Scientist Award from National Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金优秀青年科学基金）to support lab’s study on the neuromodulation of pain.

May 2023: Welcome Yangyang Yi (PhD student), Fanzhe Fu (Master student), Piaoyi Li (Visiting student), and Yipeng Yao (RA) joining us!

February 2023: Our paper “Causal relationships between migraine and microstructural white matter: a Mendelian randomization study” is accepted at the Journal of Headache and Pain!

February 2023: Our paper “Elevated dementia risk, cognitive decline, and hippocampal atrophy in multisite chronic pain” is accepted at PNAS!

January 2023: Welcome Wenjin Fu (RA) and Peijing Du (RA) joining us!

2022

December 2022: Our paper “Placebo and nocebo effects: from observation to harnessing and clinical application” is published at Translational Psychiatry!

August 2022: Welcome Xiangyu Chang (RA) joining us!

July 2022: Welcome Dr. Zhiyan Wang joining our lab as a research assistant professor!

May 2022: Dr. Tu was awarded the prestigious Sci-Tech Innovation 2030 Brain Science and Brain-like Intelligence Technology project (China’s Brain Project) to study the neural representations of pain and pain modulation.

February 2022: Welcome Jie Chen (RA), Dong Song (Visiting student) and Huijuan Zhang (Postdoc) joining us!

2021

September 2021: Welcome Jingxinmiao Lin (Master student) and Yilan Tang (Master student) joining us!

July 2021: Welcome Lei Zhao (PhD student), Feixue Wang (PhD student), Yi Qiu (Master student), Weiwei Ma (Master student), and Wenhui Zhao (Visiting student) joining us!

June 2021: Our paper “Post-traumatic stress symptoms in COVID-19 survivors: a self-report and brain imaging follow-up study” is accepted at Molecular Psychiatry!

May 2021: Dr. Tu gave a talk “The neural mechanisms and neuromodulation of intra-subject variability in pain perception” at Neurochat (video available)

May 2021: Dr. Tu gave a talk “Building better biomarkers using neuroimaging and machine learning” at Beijing International Studies University (北二外).

May 2021: Dr. Tu gave talks “Analytical approaches for multimodal neuroimaging data and its applications for pain” at Fudan University (复旦) and East China Normal University (华东师大).

May 2021: Our paper “Manipulating placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia using changing brain excitability” is published at PNAS!

May 2021: Our paper “Perturbing fMRI brain dynamics using transcranial direct current stimulation” is published at Neuroimage!

April 2021: Dr. Tu was invited to attend the “The 8th EEG and Brain Imaging Research Conference” in Chongqing, and gave a talk “The neural mechanisms and neuromodulation of intra-subject variability in pain perception”.

March 2021: Our paper “How expectations of pain elicited by consciously and unconsciously perceived cues unfold over time” is published at Neuroimage!

2020

November 2020: Dr Tu joins Institute of Psychology at Chinese Academy of Sciences as a Principal Investigator.

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