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Jian Kong is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, complementary and alternative medicine, and physiology.

Their research focuses on a range of topics with a notable emphasis on pain management and placebo effect, acupuncture treatment studies, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments. Other key areas of investigation include functional brain connectivity, pain mechanisms and treatments, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Jian Kong's recent notable papers include the following:

  • Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) for migraine: an fMRI study, 2020, Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine
  • Distinct thalamocortical network dynamics are associated with the pathophysiology of chronic low back pain, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Reduced tactile acuity in chronic low back pain is linked with structural neuroplasticity in primary somatosensory cortex and is modulated by acupuncture therapy, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Acupuncture Treatment Modulates the Connectivity of Key Regions of the Descending Pain Modulation and Reward Systems in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their research include Georgia Wilson, Sierra Hodges, Jin Cao, Yiting Huang, and Valeria Saccà. These partnerships have contributed to a significant body of work.

Jian Kong has published extensively in several academic venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being NeuroImage, PubMed, Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface, Nature Communications, and the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

Best Publications

  • A Randomized Trial Comparing Telemedicine Case Management with Usual Care in Older, Ethnically Diverse, Medically Underserved Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: 5 Year Results of the IDEATel Study

    Steven Shea;Ruth S. Weinstock;Ruth S. Weinstock;Jeanne A. Teresi;Jeanne A. Teresi;Walter Palmas

  • Brain Activity Associated with Expectancy-Enhanced Placebo Analgesia as Measured by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Jian Kong;Randy L. Gollub;Ilana S. Rosman;J. Megan Webb

  • Acupuncture De Qi, from Qualitative History to Quantitative Measurement

    Jian Kong;Randy Gollub;Tao Huang;Ginger Polich

  • The salient characteristics of the central effects of acupuncture needling: Limbic‐paralimbic‐neocortical network modulation

    Jiliang Fang;Zhen Jin;Yin Wang;Ke Li

  • Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation modulates default mode network in major depressive disorder.

    Jiliang Fang;Peijing Rong;Yang Hong;Yangyang Fan

  • Nonconscious activation of placebo and nocebo pain responses

    Karin B. Jensen;Karin B. Jensen;Karin B. Jensen;Ted J. Kaptchuk;Irving Kirsch;Irving Kirsch;Jacqueline Raicek

  • Default mode network connectivity encodes clinical pain: An arterial spin labeling study

    Marco Luciano Loggia;Marco Luciano Loggia;Marco Luciano Loggia;Jieun Kim;Randy Lyanne Gollub;Randy Lyanne Gollub;Mark G. Vangel

  • A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on the Neural Mechanisms of Hyperalgesic Nocebo Effect

    Jian Kong;Randy L. Gollub;Ginger Polich;Irving Kirsch

  • Using fMRI to dissociate sensory encoding from cognitive evaluation of heat pain intensity.

    Jian Kong;Nathan S. White;Kenneth K. Kwong;Mark G. Vangel

  • Patients With Fibromyalgia Display Less Functional Connectivity In The Brain's Pain Inhibitory Network

    Karin B Jensen;Rita Loitoile;Eva Kosek;Frank Petzke

  • Exploring the brain in pain: activations, deactivations and their relation

    Jian Kong;Marco L. Loggia;Marco L. Loggia;Marco L. Loggia;Carolyn Zyloney;Peichi Tu

  • The neural substrate of arithmetic operations and procedure complexity

    Jian Kong;Chunmao Wang;Kenneth Kwong;Mark Vangel

  • Overlapping structural and functional brain changes in patients with long-term exposure to fibromyalgia pain

    Karin B. Jensen;Priti Srinivasan;Rosa Spaeth;Ying Tan;Ying Tan

  • Correction of the disease phenotype in the mouse model of Stargardt disease by lentiviral gene therapy.

    J. Kong;S.-R. Kim;K. Binley;I. Pata

  • Effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on major depressive disorder: A nonrandomized controlled pilot study.

    Peijing Rong;Jun Liu;Liping Wang;Rupeng Liu

  • Psychophysical outcomes from a randomized pilot study of manual, electro, and sham acupuncture treatment on experimentally induced thermal pain.

    Jian Kong;Duretti T. Fufa;Andrew J. Gerber;Ilana S. Rosman

  • A pilot study of functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain during manual and electroacupuncture stimulation of acupuncture point (LI-4 Hegu) in normal subjects reveals differential brain activation between methods.

    Jian Kong;Lin Ma;Randy L. Gollub;Jinghan Wei

  • Disrupted functional connectivity of the periaqueductal gray in chronic low back pain

    Rongjun Yu;Randy L. Gollub;Rosa Spaeth;Vitaly Napadow

  • Meditation's impact on default mode network and hippocampus in mild cognitive impairment: a pilot study.

    Rebecca Erwin Wells;Gloria Y. Yeh;Catherine E. Kerr;Jennifer Wolkin

  • Inserting Needles Into the Body: A Meta-Analysis of Brain Activity Associated With Acupuncture Needle Stimulation

    Younbyoung Chae;Younbyoung Chae;Dong Seon Chang;Dong Seon Chang;Soon Ho Lee;Won Mo Jung

  • Intrinsic functional connectivity of the periaqueductal gray, a resting fMRI study

    Jian Kong;Pei-chi Tu;Pei-chi Tu;Carolyn Zyloney;Tung-ping Su;Tung-ping Su

Frequent Co-Authors

Randy L. Gollub
Randy L. Gollub Harvard Medical School
Vitaly Napadow
Vitaly Napadow Harvard University
Bruce R. Rosen
Bruce R. Rosen Harvard University
Irving Kirsch
Irving Kirsch Harvard University
Marco L. Loggia
Marco L. Loggia Harvard University
Rando Allikmets
Rando Allikmets Columbia University
Nouchine Hadjikhani
Nouchine Hadjikhani Harvard Medical School
Darin D. Dougherty
Darin D. Dougherty Harvard University
Karl Pillemer
Karl Pillemer Cornell University
Scott P. Orr
Scott P. Orr Harvard University

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