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Wei Liao is affiliated with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and has an extensive research portfolio focused primarily on Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work encompasses several specialized subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Paleontology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their publications cover a variety of topics related to brain function and imaging, with a strong emphasis on functional brain connectivity studies and advanced neuroimaging techniques. Main topics of their research include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Epilepsy research and treatment

Wei Liao has contributed to various academic journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Communications Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Nature Communications

Their selection of recent papers includes:

  • "Cortical structural differences in major depressive disorder correlate with cell type-specific transcriptional signatures," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Percent amplitude of fluctuation: A simple measure for resting-state fMRI signal at single voxel level," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "From CNN to Transformer: A Review of Medical Image Segmentation Models," 2024, Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine
  • "The thalamic functional gradient and its relationship to structural basis and cognitive relevance," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "A neuromarker of individual general fluid intelligence from the white-matter functional connectome," 2020, Translational Psychiatry

Coauthors who frequently collaborate with Wei Liao include Huafu Chen, Yao Meng, Siqi Yang, Jiao Li, and Xujun Duan.

Wei Liao has also authored books published by Frontiers Media, notably "Advances in Research on Aging in Female Infertility and Pathologic Pregnancy" in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan

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  • Altered functional–structural coupling of large-scale brain networks in idiopathic generalized epilepsy

    Zhiqiang Zhang;Wei Liao;Huafu Chen;Dante Mantini

  • Altered Functional Connectivity and Small-World in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

    Wei-Ting Liao;Zhiqiang Zhang;Zhengyong Pan;Dante Mantini;Dante Mantini

  • Default mode network abnormalities in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: a study combining fMRI and DTI.

    Wei Liao;Zhiqiang Zhang;Zhengyong Pan;Dante Mantini

  • Selective aberrant functional connectivity of resting state networks in social anxiety disorder.

    Wei Liao;Huafu Chen;Yuanbo Feng;Dante Mantini

  • RESTplus: an improved toolkit for resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data processing

    Xi-Ze Jia;Jue Wang;Hai-Yang Sun;Han Zhang;Han Zhang

  • A blind deconvolution approach to recover effective connectivity brain networks from resting state fMRI data

    Guo-Rong Wu;Wei Liao;Sebastiano Stramaglia;Ju-Rong Ding;Ju-Rong Ding

  • Altered functional connectivity in default mode network in absence epilepsy: A resting-state fMRI study

    Cheng Luo;Qifu Li;Yongxiu Lai;Yang Xia

  • DynamicBC: A MATLAB Toolbox for Dynamic Brain Connectome Analysis

    Wei Liao;Guo-Rong Wu;Qiang Xu;Gong-Jun Ji

  • Cortical structural differences in major depressive disorder correlate with cell type-specific transcriptional signatures.

    Jiao Li;Jakob Seidlitz;John Suckling;Feiyang Fan

  • Altered spontaneous neuronal activity of the default-mode network in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

    Zhiqiang Zhang;Guangming Lu;Yuan Zhong;Qifu Tan

  • Evaluating the effective connectivity of resting state networks using conditional Granger causality

    Wei Liao;Dante Mantini;Zhiqiang Zhang;Zhengyong Pan

  • FMRI Study of Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Using Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuation Analysis

    Zhiqiang Zhang;Guangming Lu;Yuan Zhong;Qifu Tan

  • Impaired attention network in temporal lobe epilepsy: a resting FMRI study.

    Zhiqiang Zhang;Guangming Lu;Yuan Zhong;Qifu Tan

  • Nonlinear connectivity by Granger causality.

    Daniele Marinazzo;Wei Liao;Huafu Chen;Sebastiano Stramaglia;Sebastiano Stramaglia

  • Altered Effective Connectivity Network of the Amygdala in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Resting-State fMRI Study

    Wei Liao;Changjian Qiu;Claudio Gentili;Martin Walter

  • Small-world directed networks in the human brain: multivariate Granger causality analysis of resting-state fMRI.

    Wei Liao;Jurong Ding;Daniele Marinazzo;Qiang Xu

  • More than just statics: temporal dynamics of intrinsic brain activity predicts the suicidal ideation in depressed patients.

    Jiao Li;Xujun Duan;Qian Cui;Huafu Chen

  • Altered gray matter morphometry and resting-state functional and structural connectivity in social anxiety disorder.

    Wei Liao;Qiang Xu;Dante Mantini;Jurong Ding

  • Musical training induces functional plasticity in perceptual and motor networks: insights from resting-state FMRI.

    Cheng Luo;Zhi-wei Guo;Yong-xiu Lai;Wei Liao

  • Impaired perceptual networks in temporal lobe epilepsy revealed by resting fMRI

    Zhiqiang Zhang;Guangming Lu;Yuan Zhong;Qifu Tan

Frequent Co-Authors

Hongzheng Chen
Hongzheng Chen Zhejiang University
Xujun Duan
Xujun Duan University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Gong-Jun Ji
Gong-Jun Ji Anhui Medical University
Qiyong Gong
Qiyong Gong Sichuan University
Yijun Liu
Yijun Liu University of Florida
Bharat B. Biswal
Bharat B. Biswal New Jersey Institute of Technology
Dante Mantini
Dante Mantini KU Leuven
Yu-Feng Zang
Yu-Feng Zang Hangzhou Normal University
Daniele Marinazzo
Daniele Marinazzo Ghent University
Han Zhang
Han Zhang ShanghaiTech University

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