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Dr. Fang Fang is Professor of Psychology, Dean of the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Executive Associate Director of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Biological Psychology at the University of Minnesota in 2006, and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate between 2006 and 2007. His research seeks to understand the neural mechanisms of visual and cognitive processes by combining neuroimaging, brain stimulation, psychophysics, computational modeling, and human genetics. Topics under investigation include visual learning and adaptation, visual attention and awareness, object and face perception. He received the Young Investigaor Award: Basic Science from the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) in 2016 and was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in 2018. He currently serves on the editorial board for Current Biology, Experimental Brain Research, and Science China Life Sciences.
Hailan Hu is Director of the MOE Frontier Center of Brain and Brain-machine integration at Zhejiang University. She holds a BA from Beijing University and a PhD from UC Berkeley, and was previously on the faculty at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her laboratory seeks to understand how emotional and social behaviors are encoded and regulated in the brain, with a main focus on the neural circuitry underlying depression and social dominance. Her team has demonstrated that social hierarchy ranking is positively correlated with and causatively regulated by synaptic strength of neurons in the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex. Based on this, she further identified the neural mechanism underlying the winner effect, by which individuals increase their chance of winning after previous victories. Her recent work has uncovered a new model to explain the etiology of depression and the rapid antidepressant actions of ketamine, involving NMDA receptor-dependent burst activity of lateral habenular neurons. Her work has led to the identification of several molecular targets for developing new antidepressant drugs. Dr. Hu is a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Award, Tan Jiazhen Life Science Innovation Award, Top 10 Science Progress Award of China, Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize and IBRO-Kemali international Prize.
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Fang, F., Hu, H. Recent progress on mechanisms of human cognition and brain disorders. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 843–846 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-1938-8
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