NEWs
Research in neuropsychology provides critical insights into cognitive processes and behavioral patterns, particularly in relation to neuropsychiatric disorders. Our laboratory focuses on advancing knowledge about schizophrenia spectrum disorders to foster effective intervention strategies and support for affected individuals.
- Raymond joined the SIRS 2026 Symposium on Negative Symptoms Treatment chaired by Oliver Howes and Laila Asma – presenting findings on “Cerebellar HD-tDCS Improves Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: A Randomized Controlled Trial”.
- Congratulation to Ms. REN Qian for her receiving of the Early Career Award at the SIRS 2026! She has been the twelfth lab members in NACN Lab to receive such an honour.
- An interesting study to adopt Avatar approach to examine the differential impact of audovisual information upon empathy in patients with schizophrenia and individuals with high social anhedonia.
- Our most recent work suggests that cognitive inflexibility shares across schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizo-obsessive disorder. The presence of the 2 features may amplify the neural alterations, implicating “additive effects.”
- Our recent findings showed the important role of cerebellum-basal ganglia functional connectivity in anhedonia and amotivation in schizophrenia
A study on people with high level of social anhedonia using experience sampling method showed that these people would experience changes in social empathy and emotions.
Our group provides preliminary evidence for the multifaceted role of the cerebellum in reward processing and suggest that cerebellar neuromodulation may be a potential intervention for mental disorders characterized by impaired reward functioning.
- It is so excited to have our schizotypy findings published in the Special issue of Neuroscience of Schizotypy, Schizophrenia Bulletin.
- The Relationship Among Range Adaptation, Social Anhedonia, and Social Functioning: A Combined Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Resting-State fMRI Study.
- Relationship Between Schizotypal Traits, Emotion Regulation, and Negative Affect in Children: A Network Analysis
- Negative Schizotypy Associated With Weaker Intersubject Correlation in Dynamic Functional Connectivity During Empathic Accuracy Task
- Personal Goal-Related Mental Time Travel and Its Association With Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Individuals With High Schizotypal Traits
Negative symptoms may not be specific to schizophrenia, our most recent findings suggested that Motivation and Pleasure (MAP) and Expression (EXP) factors appeared to be a stable transdiagnostic latent structure of negative symptoms across bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder
We are excited to see the launch of the PsyCh Journal Special Issue on “Challenges of Assessment and Intervention for Mental Health Issues in Adolescence and Young Adults”
People with high level of social anhedonia often mis-predict their real-life future emotions
Very happy share a perspective paper on anhedonia across and beyond schizophrenia spectrum.
Using network analysis, we found that childhood trauma was connected strongly to the development of psychopathology in patients with schizophrenia, major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. These findings highlighted the need of early identification and tailored interventions for people with a history of childhood trauma.
We are excited to share our recent perspective, “Theories and Models of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia and Clinical Implications”, published by Nature Reviews Psychology