Dr. Yazhuo Kong
Contact information
yazhuo.kong@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
kongyz@psych.ac.cn
01865 611454
75th descendant of Confucius!
B.Eng: University of Science and Technology of China
Ph.D: University of Sheffield
I have moved to Beijing since 2017 as PI of the Lab for Intergrative Neuroimaging of Pain (LINIP) , Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Joe Yazhuo Kong
Ph.D
Honorary Research Fellow
- Pain Neuroimaging analysis
Pain neuroscience, spinal cord MRI, neuropathic pain, neurodegeneration diseases
spinal MRI
I obtained my PhD from the Department of Psychology and Department of Automatic Control and System Engineering, University of Sheffield, with a joint and interdisciplinary project of haemodynamic response modelling in neuroimaging analysis. I focused on spinal cord imaging after I moved to the FMRIB centre, University of Oxford. Since 2017, I started my own group, Lab for Integrative NeuroImaging of Pain (LINIP), at the Institution of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The team primarily focuses on studies to reveal the complex somatosensory neural mechanisms of the cortico-spinal neural circuits involved in pain perception, cognition and modulation, and develop pain relief strategies for neuropathic pain.
I have published a series of high-impact papers in top-tier biomedical and neuroscience journals, such as Brain, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, NeuroImage, Cerebral Cortex, Human Brain Mapping etc, and obtained multiple patents and software copyrights.
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=juKcGHMAAAAJ&hl=en
Key publications
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Age-associated changes in multimodal pain perception.
Zhi Y. et al, (2024), Age Ageing, 53
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The dual facilitatory and inhibitory effects of social pain on physical pain perception.
Zhang M. et al, (2024), iScience, 27
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Thalamocortical Mechanisms for Nostalgia-Induced Analgesia.
Zhang M. et al, (2022), J Neurosci, 42, 2963 - 2972
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Quantitative spinal cord MRI in MOG-antibody disease, neuromyelitis optica and multiple sclerosis.
Mariano R. et al, (2021), Brain, 144, 198 - 212
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Pain-related reorganization in the primary somatosensory cortex of patients with postherpetic neuralgia.
Li H. et al, (2022), Hum Brain Mapp, 43, 5167 - 5179
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Gender discrimination facilitates fMRI responses and connectivity to thermal pain.
Zhang M. et al, (2021), Neuroimage
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Investigating resting-state functional connectivity in the cervical spinal cord at 3T.
Eippert F. et al, (2017), Neuroimage, 147, 589 - 601
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Intrinsically organized resting state networks in the human spinal cord.
Kong Y. et al, (2014), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 111, 18067 - 18072
Recent publications
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Age-associated changes in multimodal pain perception.
Zhi Y. et al, (2024), Age Ageing, 53
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Body size interacts with the structure of the central nervous system: A multi-center in vivo neuroimaging study.
Labounek R. et al, (2024), bioRxiv
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The dual facilitatory and inhibitory effects of social pain on physical pain perception.
Zhang M. et al, (2024), iScience, 27
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Thermal stimulus task fMRI in the cervical spinal cord at 7 Tesla.
Seifert AC. et al, (2024), Hum Brain Mapp, 45
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Thermal Stimulus Task fMRI in the Cervical Spinal Cord at 7 Tesla.
Seifert AC. et al, (2023), bioRxiv
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Enhanced neural synchrony associated with long-term ballroom dance training
Wu X. et al, (2023), NeuroImage, 278
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Sex difference in trait empathy is encoded in the human anterior insula
Wu X. et al, (2023), Cerebral Cortex, 33, 5055 - 5065
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Stigmatized experience is associated with exacerbated pain perception in depressed patients.
Zhang M. et al, (2023), Behav Res Ther, 161