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Simon S.Y. Lui is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience, contributing substantially to Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Cognitive Neuroscience, among other subfields.

Their work covers a variety of topics, notably including:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, some of the most common coauthors include:

  • Raymond C. K. Chan
  • Yi Wang
  • Lingling Wang
  • Hui-xin Hu
  • Wing Chung Chang

Simon S.Y. Lui's research outputs have often been published in several key venues, such as:

  • PsyCh Journal
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Asian Journal of Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some recent publications demonstrate the breadth of topics covered and the interdisciplinary approaches employed. These include:

  • "MDAN: Multi-level Dependent Attention Network for Visual Emotion Analysis," 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • "Neurological Soft Signs Are Associated With Altered Cerebellar-Cerebral Functional Connectivity in Schizophrenia," 2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • "The Important Role of Motivation and Pleasure Deficits on Social Functioning in Patients With Schizophrenia: A Network Analysis," 2022, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • "Shared and distinct reward neural mechanisms among patients with schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder: an effort-based functional imaging study," 2022, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • "Theories and models of negative symptoms in schizophrenia and clinical implications," 2022, Nature Reviews Psychology

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of neuropsychological measures of executive functioning in children and adolescents with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder.

    Chun Lun Eric Lai;Zoe Lau;Simon S. Y. Lui;Eugenia Lok

  • Neurological soft signs are not "soft" in brain structure and functional networks: evidence from ALE meta-analysis.

    Qing Zhao;Zhi Li;Jia Huang;Chao Yan

  • Long-term effects of discontinuation from antipsychotic maintenance following first-episode schizophrenia and related disorders: a 10 year follow-up of a randomised, double-blind trial

    Christy L M Hui;William G Honer;Edwin H M Lee;Wing Chung Chang

  • Brain structural abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder: converging evidence from white matter and grey matter.

    ZiWen Peng;Simon S.Y. Lui;Simon S.Y. Lui;Eric F.C. Cheung;Zhen Jin

  • Neurological soft signs discriminate schizophrenia from major depression but not bipolar disorder

    Qing Zhao;Yan-tao Ma;Simon S.Y. Lui;Wen-hua Liu

  • Anhedonia in schizophrenia: Deficits in both motivation and hedonic capacity

    Jiao Wang;Jia Huang;Xin-hua Yang;Simon S.Y. Lui

  • Theory of mind impairments in patients with first-episode schizophrenia and their unaffected siblings

    Karen K.Y. Ho;Simon S.Y. Lui;Simon S.Y. Lui;Karen S.Y. Hung;Yi Wang

  • Altered corticostriatal functional connectivity in individuals with high social anhedonia

    Y. Wang;W. H. Liu;Z. Li;X. H. Wei

  • Effort-cost computation in a transdiagnostic psychiatric sample: Differences among patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder.

    Ying‐Min Zou;Ke Ni;Yan‐Yu Wang;Yan‐Yu Wang;En‐Qing Yu

  • In vivo gamma-aminobutyric acid and glutamate levels in people with first-episode schizophrenia: A proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

    P.W. Chiu;Simon S.Y. Lui;Karen S.Y. Hung;Raymond C.K. Chan

  • Social Functioning in Chinese College Students with and without Schizotypal Personality Traits: An Exploratory Study of the Chinese Version of the First Episode Social Functioning Scale

    Yi Wang;Ya-hsuan Yeh;Sin-man Tsang;Wen-hua Liu

  • What does the nose know? Olfactory function predicts social network size in human

    Lai-quan Zou;Zhuo-ya Yang;Yi Wang;Simon S. Y. Lui;Simon S. Y. Lui

  • Cognitive empathy partially mediates the association between negative schizotypy traits and social functioning

    Yi Wang;David L. Neumann;David H.K. Shum;Wen-hua Liu

  • Clinical Utility and Lifespan Profiling of Neurological Soft Signs in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

    Raymond C. K. Chan;Weizhen Xie;Fu-lei Geng;Ya Wang

  • Validation and extension of the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy in the Chinese setting.

    Yun‐si Liang;Han‐xue Yang;Yan‐tao Ma;Simon S. Y. Lui

  • Validation of the Chinese version of the Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms (CAINS): a preliminary report.

    Raymond C. K. Chan;Chuan Shi;Simon S. Y. Lui;Simon S. Y. Lui;Karen K. Y. Ho

  • Experiential pleasure deficits in different stages of schizophrenia.

    Zhi Li;Simon S.Y. Lui;Fu-lei Geng;Ying Li

  • Individuals with psychometric schizotypy show similar social but not physical anhedonia to patients with schizophrenia

    Yi Wang;Simon S.Y. Lui;Lai-quan Zou;Qi Zhang

  • Differential mesolimbic and prefrontal alterations during reward anticipation and consummation in positive and negative schizotypy

    Chao Yan;Chao Yan;Yi Wang;Li Su;Ting Xu

  • Tractography-based classification in distinguishing patients with first-episode schizophrenia from healthy individuals

    Yi Deng;Karen S.Y. Hung;Simon S.Y. Lui;William W.H. Chui

  • Prospective memory in patients with first-onset schizophrenia and their non-psychotic siblings

    Simon S.Y. Lui;Ya Wang;Amy C.Y. Liu;William W.H. Chui

  • Experience of Pleasure and Emotional Expression in Individuals with Schizotypal Personality Features

    Yan fang Shi;Yi Wang;Xiao yan Cao;Ya Wang

  • Course of neurological soft signs in first-episode schizophrenia: Relationship with negative symptoms and cognitive performances

    Raymond C. K. Chan;Fu-lei Geng;Simon S. Y. Lui;Simon S. Y. Lui;Ya Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond C.K. Chan
Raymond C.K. Chan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Eric F.C. Cheung
Eric F.C. Cheung Castle Peak Hospital
Ya Wang
Ya Wang Capital Normal University
David Shum
David Shum Hong Kong Polytechnic University
David L. Neumann
David L. Neumann Griffith University
Ann M. Kring
Ann M. Kring University of California, Berkeley
Gregory P. Strauss
Gregory P. Strauss University of Georgia
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
William G. Honer
William G. Honer University of British Columbia
Yu Gu
Yu Gu Visa (United States)

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