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Cynthia H.Y. Fu is affiliated with the University of East London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, contributing significantly to subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and pharmacology.

The scope of Cynthia H.Y. Fu's work covers multiple topics related to brain function and mental health. Key research areas include functional brain connectivity studies, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, treatment of major depression, electroconvulsive therapy studies, mental health research topics, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Frequent publication venues for Cynthia's work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • JAMA Psychiatry

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Cynthia H.Y. Fu are:

  • "Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders," 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing," 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Characterizing Heterogeneity in Neuroimaging, Cognition, Clinical Symptoms, and Genetics Among Patients With Late-Life Depression," 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "The neuroscience of sadness: A multidisciplinary synthesis and collaborative review," 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Cynthia collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Allan H. Young
  • Rachel D. Woodham
  • Ali-Reza Ghazi-Noori
  • Ian H. Gotlib
  • Matthew D. Sacchet

Best Publications

  • Predictors of amygdala activation during the processing of emotional stimuli: A meta-analysis of 385 PET and fMRI studies.

    Sergi G. Costafreda;Michael J. Brammer;Anthony S. David;Cynthia H.Y. Fu

  • Attenuation of the neural response to sad faces in major depression by antidepressant treatment: a prospective, event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Cynthia H. Y. Fu;Steven C. R. Williams;Anthony J. Cleare;Michael J. Brammer

  • A systematic review and quantitative appraisal of fMRI studies of verbal fluency: Role of the left inferior frontal gyrus

    Sergi G. Costafreda;Cynthia H.Y. Fu;Lucy Lee;Brian Everitt

  • A functional MRI study of happy and sad affective states induced by classical music

    Martina T. Mitterschiffthaler;Cynthia H.Y. Fu;Jeffrey A. Dalton;Christopher M. Andrew

  • Common and distinct patterns of grey-matter volume alteration in major depression and bipolar disorder: evidence from voxel-based meta-analysis

    T Wise;J Radua;J Radua;E Via;N Cardoner

  • A systematic review of the neurophysiology of mindfulness on EEG oscillations.

    Tim Lomas;Itai Ivtzan;Cynthia H.Y. Fu

  • Predictive neural biomarkers of clinical response in depression: A meta-analysis of functional and structural neuroimaging studies of pharmacological and psychological therapies

    Cynthia H.Y. Fu;Herbert Steiner;Sergi G. Costafreda

  • Brain imaging correlates of depressive symptom severity and predictors of symptom improvement after antidepressant treatment

    Chi-Hua Chen;Khanum Ridler;Khanum Ridler;John Suckling;Steve Williams

  • Neural Responses to Sad Facial Expressions in Major Depression Following Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    Cynthia H.Y. Fu;Steven C.R. Williams;Anthony J. Cleare;Jan Scott;Jan Scott

  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of non-surgical brain stimulation for the acute treatment of major depressive episodes in adults: systematic review and network meta-analysis

    Julian Mutz;Vijeinika Vipulananthan;Benjamin Richard Carter;René Hurlemann

  • Pattern Classification of Sad Facial Processing : Toward the Development of Neurobiological Markers in Depression

    Cynthia H.Y. Fu;Janaina Mourao-Miranda;Sergi G. Costafreda;Akash Khanna

  • Hippocampal atrophy in first episode depression: a meta-analysis of magnetic resonance imaging studies.

    James Cole;Sergi G. Costafreda;Peter McGuffin;Cynthia H.Y. Fu

  • Efficacy and acceptability of non-invasive brain stimulation for the treatment of adult unipolar and bipolar depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised sham-controlled trials

    Julian Mutz;Julian Mutz;Daniel R. Edgcumbe;Andre R. Brunoni;Cynthia H.Y. Fu

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • Neural Responses to Happy Facial Expressions in Major Depression Following Antidepressant Treatment

    Cynthia H Y Fu;Steve C R Williams;Michael J Brammer;John Suckling

  • Prognostic and Diagnostic Potential of the Structural Neuroanatomy of Depression

    Sergi G. Costafreda;Carlton Chu;John Ashburner;Cynthia H. Y. Fu

  • Neural basis of the emotional Stroop interference effect in major depression.

    M. T. Mitterschiffthaler;S. C. R. Williams;N. D. Walsh;A. J. Cleare

  • Effects of Verbal Working Memory Load on Corticocortical Connectivity Modeled by Path Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data

    Garry Honey;Cynthia H. Y. Fu;Jieun Kim;Michael J. Brammer

  • Functional coupling of the amygdala in depressed patients treated with antidepressant medication

    Chi-Hua Chen;John Suckling;Cinly Ooi;Cynthia H Y Fu

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of overt letter verbal fluency using a clustered acquisition sequence: greater anterior cingulate activation with increased task demand.

    Cynthia H. Y. Fu;Kevin Morgan;John Suckling;Steven C. R. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Marco Picchioni
Marco Picchioni King's College London
Michael Brammer
Michael Brammer King's College London
Anthony J. Cleare
Anthony J. Cleare King's College London
Danai Dima
Danai Dima City, University of London
James H. Cole
James H. Cole University College London
Edson Amaro
Edson Amaro Universidade de São Paulo
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Paul Allen
Paul Allen Royal Holloway University of London
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London

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