Resting state functional connectivity in health and disease

Xin Di currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research endeavors are primarily centered around comprehending brain connectivity and network organizations by employing various neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). His focus primarily lies in examining how task demands influence brain connectivity and network organizations and how they are modified in mental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder.

Laura E Martin, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Population Health and Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at Hoglund Biomedical Imaging Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She received her PhD in Psychology with an emphasis in Cognitive Neuroscience from Rice University. Her research examines the connections between neural processing of reward and self-regulation with health behaviors including smoking, eating, and physical activity. Dr Martin’s research has been funded by NIH training fellowships and grants as well as the American Cancer Society.

Yuan Zhou received her MS in Psychiatry and Mental health from Wuhan University in 2004 and her PhD in Pattern Recognition and Intelligence System from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 2007. Since then, she has been working at the CAS Institute of Psychology, where she was promoted to full professor in 2019. Her research focuses on neuroimaging and mental health, with a particular interest in resting-state brain functional networks and the neural basis of social cognition both in healthy participants (including twins) and patients with psychiatric disorders.