Neurotherapy · Social Cognition and Affective Neuroscience (neuSCAN) Laboratory

神经疗法 & 社会认知与情感神经科学实验室

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Professor Keith Kendrick has a BA (1976) and PhD (1979) in Psychology from the University of Durham in the UK. He has held research positions in the University of Durham, Institute of Zoology, University of Cambridge and at the Babraham Institute in the UK prior to moving his current post in the School of Life Science and Technology at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in Chengdu in 2011. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed papers, including many in Nature, Science and PNAS as well as in leading Psychiatric journals. The total citation for his publications is now over 18,000, with 40 papers’ citations over 100 and 5 papers over 300 and the H index is 76. He is entitled as “Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholars” and has received numerous competitive research grants from both UK and China-based funding agencies.

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Since 2015 Benjamin Becker is working as full-time professor at the UESTC. He received the “Academic and Technical Leading Scientist of Sichuan Province” and "Tianfu Friendship" award. His current research is focused on determining brain-based markers and novel treatment approaches for emotional brain disorders and is supported by Chinese and German funding agencies. He has published over 150 highly cited papers in international peer-reviewed journals including American Journal of Psychiatry, Nature Communications, Advanced Science, Brain, Biological Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, eLife and Cerebral Cortex.​

Key Members

Associate Professor


Research Interest:

Brain image analysis; machine learning

and computational modeling


Email:

xijiang@uestc.edu.cn

Full Professor 


Research Interest:

Psychology; affective neuroscience



Email:

zhangqiong320@163.com

Dr. Xi Jiang

Associate Professor

Research Interest:

Social decision; fear and anxiety;

oxytocin; real-time fMRI neurofeedback


Email:

yaoshuxia@uestc.edu.cn

Associate Professor


Research Interest

Emotion Processing; Self-other distinction



E-mail : 

zarazhao@uestc.edu.cn

Dr. Shuxia Yao


Associate Professor


Research Interests: fMRI and behavioral studies of emotional and cognitive dysfunctions in psychiatric disorders


Email:

luolizhu@uestc.edu.cn

Associate Professor

Research Interest:

fMRI; DIT; Psychiatric disorders



Email:

stefania.ferraro@istituto-besta.it

Dr. Lizhu Luo

Dr. Ferraro Stefania


Lab Manager 

Jiali(Jiali He)


Email:

Jiali_uestc@outlook.com