| Name | Yan Chen |
| job title | Associate professor |
| field of study | Disorders of consciousness, language cognitive neuroscience |
| Education and work experience | Graduated from Fudan University with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences in 2013, and graduated with a PhD in basic psychology from Beijing Normal University in 2018. In 2020, finished the postdoctoral fellow at Zhejiang University, and started working at Hangzhou Normal University in 2021. |
| Academic Achievements | Hosted the Youth Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2023-2025) and the Youth Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (2022-2024), and published a JCR 1 area paper. |
| Name | Nantu Hu |
| job title | Lecturer |
| field of study | Disorders of consciousness & Neuromechanism of consciousness |
| Education and work experience | Graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics in 2006, and from Zhejiang University with a PhD in Psychology in 2012 (16 months of joint training at University of Minnesota during the PhD program). Worked as a lecturer in the School of Psychology of East China Normal University from 2013 to 2015, and in the School of Basic Medicine of Hangzhou Normal University from 2017 till now. |
| 学术成果 | Presided over the sub-project of the National Key R&D Programm of China (2022-2025). Published 1 JCR1 paper as a co-corresponding author and 2 Chinese papers as a corresponding author. |
| Name | Weiqiao Zhao |
| job title | Associate professor |
| field of study | Consciousness disorders; Research on the mechanisms of neurological diseases. |
| Education and work experience | Graduated with a bachelor's degree in Biotechnology from Henan University of Chinese Medicine in 2012; obtained a doctoral degree in Neurobiology from Zhejiang University in 2018; completed postdoctoral research at Zhejiang University in 2022; joined Hangzhou Normal University in August 2022 |
| Academic Achievements | Principal Investigator for the Zhejiang Provincial Medical and Health Science and Technology Plan (2024-2026) |
| Name | Xianwei Che |
| job title | Associate Professor |
| field of study | Neuroplastic and Neuroplasticity |
| Education and work experience |
September 2012 - June 2015, Southwest University, Master in Cognitive Neuroscience September 2015 - June 2019, Monash University, Ph.D. in Neuroscience November 2019 - Present: College of Clinical Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Associate Professor May 2020 - Present: Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, PI |
| Academic Achievements |
Grants: 1. Exploring the sustained analgesic effects and neural plasticity mechanisms of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in chronic neuropathic pain (National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2021-2023, Principal Investigator, 240,000 ¥). 2.Research on external information input and neural modulation techniques for brain-machine interfaces (Zhejiang Province "Top Soldiers" Key R&D Program, 2022-2024, Subproject Leader, responsible for 500,000 ¥ out of a total budget of 1,850,000¥). 3.Special Support Program for cultivating talents under Hangzhou High-level Talents Plan (2021-2023, Principal Investigator, 80,000 ¥). 4. Exploring the analgesic effects and neural plasticity mechanisms of prolonged theta burst stimulation (pcTBS) (Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation Project, 2023-2025, Principal Investigator, 100,000 ¥). 5. Investigating the neural mechanisms of analgesic effects of rTMS through combined neuropharmacology and neural plasticity approaches (Hangzhou City Biomedical and Health Industry Development Support Science and Technology Special Project, 2022-2023, Principal Investigator, 80,000 ¥). 6. Temporal dynamics and neural plasticity relationship of analgesic effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (Superior Disciplines Project of Hangzhou Normal University, 2021-2022, Principal Investigator, 80,000 ¥). Published papers： 1. *Xianwei Che, Robin F.H. Cash, Xi Luo, Hong Luo, Xiaodong Lu, Feng Xu, Yu-Feng Zang, Paul B. Fitzgerald, Bernadette M. Fitzgibbon. High-frequency rTMS over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on chronic and provoked pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Brain Stimulation, 2021, 14:1135-1146 (2021 IF = 8.9, JCR Q1, Corresponding Author). 2. *Che, X., Fitzgibbon B., Yang, Y., Wang, J., Luo, H., Fitzgerald, P., &, Cash, R. Characterising the Optimal Pulse Number and Frequency for Inducing Analgesic Effects with Motor Cortex rTMS. Brain Stimulation, 2021, 14:1081-1083 (2021 IF = 8.9, JCR Q1, Corresponding Author). 3. Ye Y, Wang J, Che X*. Concurrent TMS-EEG to Reveal the Neuroplastic Changes in the Prefrontal and Insular Cortices in the Analgesic Effects of DLPFC-rTMS. Cerebral Cortex (2022 IF = 4.6, JCR Q2, Corresponding Author). 4. Ming Cheng, *Xianwei Che, Yang Ye, Changlin He, Liang Yu, Yating Lv, Paul B Fitzgerald, Robin F. H. Cash, Bernadette M. Fitzgibbon. Analgesic efficacy of theta-burst stimulation for postoperative pain. Clinical Neurophysiology, 2023 (2022 IF = 4.7, JCR Q2, Corresponding Author). 5. J Li, K Xu, Y Guo, X Chen, G Li, L Qi, X *Che. Case evidence of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the management of refractory irritable bowel syndrome with comorbid depression. Brain Stimulation, 2022, 15:434-436 (2021 IF = 8.9, JCR Q1, Corresponding Author). 6. Ying Liu, Lina Yu, Xianwei Che*, Min Yan*. Prolonged Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation to Demonstrate a Larger Analgesia as well as Cortical Excitability Changes Dependent on the Context of a Pain Episode. Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021 (2021 IF = 5.7, JCR Q1, Co-corresponding Author). 7. Y Wang, B Tan, S Shi, Y Ye, X Che*. Dopamine D2 receptor antagonist modulates rTMS-induced pain experiences and corticospinal excitability dependent on stimulation targets. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 2023, 24 (1), 100413 (2023 IF = 8.8, JCR Q1, corresponding Author). |
| Name | Na Zhao |
| job title | Research Assistant |
| field of study | Cognitive neuroscience, magnetic resonance guiding TMS to individualized precision treatment of psychiatric disorders |
| Education and work experience |
He graduated from Qingdao University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in Tourism Management, Hangzhou Normal University in 2019 with a master's degree in clinical Cognitive Psychology, and the University of Macau with a doctor's degree in biomedicine in 2022. He started working in Hangzhou Normal University in 2023 |
| Academic Achievements |
Host the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project (2024-2026) |
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