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Overview

Meng Liang is affiliated with Tianjin Medical University in China and has contributed significantly to the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research portfolio includes a strong focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and advanced neuroimaging techniques, with particular attention to Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Imaging. Additional subfields present in their work encompass Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, and Neurology.

Their primary research topics include functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, pain management and placebo effect, pain mechanisms and treatments, advanced MRI techniques and applications, mental health research topics, and schizophrenia research and treatment.

Frequent co-authors in Meng Liang's research career include:

  • Wen Qin
  • Chunshui Yu
  • Hao Ding
  • Qian Su
  • Yingchao Song

Their work has been published across a number of journals and venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • NeuroImage
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Bioactive Materials
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Meng Liang's recent papers cover diverse topics related to neuroscience and brain function, including:

  • "Macrophage membrane-coated nanocarriers Co-Modified by RVG29 and TPP improve brain neuronal mitochondria-targeting and therapeutic efficacy in Alzheimer's disease mice" (2020, Bioactive Materials)
  • "Mindfulness-based interventions for social anxiety disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis" (2021, Psychiatry Research)
  • "Gender Differences Are Encoded Differently in the Structure and Function of the Human Brain Revealed by Multimodal MRI" (2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
  • "Anatomical and functional coupling between the dorsal and ventral attention networks" (2021, NeuroImage)
  • "MVPANI: A Toolkit With Friendly Graphical User Interface for Multivariate Pattern Analysis of Neuroimaging Data" (2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience)

This body of work reflects Meng Liang's engagement with both clinical and methodological aspects of neuroscience, particularly exploring brain structure, brain connectivity, therapeutic strategies, and computational tools supporting neuroimaging data analysis.

Best Publications

  • Altered baseline brain activity in children with ADHD revealed by resting-state functional MRI

    Yu-Feng Zang;Yong He;Chao-Zhe Zhu;Chao-Zhe Zhu;Qing-Jiu Cao

  • Disrupted small-world networks in schizophrenia.

    Yong Liu;Meng Liang;Yuan Zhou;Yong He

  • Changes in hippocampal connectivity in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease: evidence from resting state fMRI.

    Liang Wang;Yufeng Zang;Yong He;Meng Liang

  • Altered functional connectivity in early Alzheimer's disease: A resting‐state fMRI study

    Kun Wang;Meng Liang;Liang Wang;Lixia Tian

  • Functional disintegration in paranoid schizophrenia using resting-state fMRI

    Yuan Zhou;Meng Liang;Lixia Tian;Kun Wang

  • Widespread functional disconnectivity in schizophrenia with resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Meng Liang;Yuan Zhou;Tianzi Jiang;Zhening Liu

  • Altered resting-state functional connectivity patterns of anterior cingulate cortex in adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Lixia Tian;Tianzi Jiang;Yufeng Wang;Yufeng Zang

  • Functional dysconnectivity of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in first-episode schizophrenia using resting-state fMRI.

    Yuan Zhou;Meng Liang;Tianzi Jiang;Lixia Tian

  • Decreased regional homogeneity in schizophrenia: a resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Haihong Liu;Zhening Liu;Meng Liang;Yihui Hao

  • Whole brain functional connectivity in the early blind

    Yong Liu;Chunshui Yu;Meng Liang;Jun Li

  • Regional homogeneity, functional connectivity and imaging markers of Alzheimer's disease: a review of resting-state fMRI studies.

    Yong Liu;Kun Wang;Chunshui Yu;Yong He;Yong He

  • Primary sensory cortices contain distinguishable spatial patterns of activity for each sense

    M. Liang;André Mouraux;L. Hu;G.D. Iannetti

  • The “Pain Matrix” in Pain-Free Individuals

    Tim V. Salomons;Gian Domenico Iannetti;Meng Liang;John N. Wood

  • Enhanced resting-state brain activities in ADHD patients: A fMRI study

    Lixia Tian;Tianzi Jiang;Meng Liang;Yufeng Zang

  • Defensive peripersonal space: the blink reflex evoked by hand stimulation is increased when the hand is near the face

    C. F. Sambo;M. Liang;G. Cruccu;G. D. Iannetti

  • Brain responses to symptom provocation and trauma-related short-term memory recall in coal mining accident survivors with acute severe PTSD

    Cailan Hou;Jun Liu;Kun Wang;Lingjiang Li

  • Parallel processing of nociceptive and non-nociceptive somatosensory information in the human primary and secondary somatosensory cortices: evidence from dynamic causal modeling of functional magnetic resonance imaging data.

    Meng Liang;André Mouraux;Giandomenico D Iannetti

  • Discriminative analysis of brain function at resting-state for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    C. Z. Zhu;Y. F. Zang;M. Liang;L. X. Tian

  • The enhancement of the N1 wave elicited by sensory stimuli presented at very short inter-stimulus intervals is a general feature across sensory systems.

    An Li Wang;André Mouraux;Meng Liang;Gian Domenico Iannetti

  • Cross-modal activation of auditory regions during visuo-spatial working memory in early deafness.

    Hao Ding;Wen Qin;Meng Liang;Dong Ming

  • Discriminative analysis of early alzheimer’s disease based on two intrinsically anti-correlated networks with resting-state fMRI

    Kun Wang;Tianzi Jiang;Meng Liang;Liang Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Gian Domenico Iannetti
Gian Domenico Iannetti University College London
Chunshui Yu
Chunshui Yu Tianjin Medical University General Hospital
Tianzi Jiang
Tianzi Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
André Mouraux
André Mouraux Université Catholique de Louvain
Yong He
Yong He Beijing Normal University
Wen Qin
Wen Qin Tianjin Medical University General Hospital
Yu-Feng Zang
Yu-Feng Zang Hangzhou Normal University
Li Hu
Li Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuan Zhou
Yuan Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhening Liu
Zhening Liu Central South University

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