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Overview

Yi-Yuan Tang is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has a focus on research spanning psychology and neuroscience. Their scholarly output includes work in clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology, with additional contributions in social psychology and civil and structural engineering.

Their research covers various topics, including mindfulness and compassion interventions, mental health research topics, sleep and related disorders, and sleep and wakefulness research. Additional topics include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, and structural health monitoring techniques.

Yi-Yuan Tang has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Selected recent papers provide insight into the breadth of their research interests:

  • "High prevalence and risk factors of dropout intention among Chinese medical postgraduates," 2022, Medical Education Online
  • "Relationship Between Trait Mindfulness and Sleep Quality in College Students: A Conditional Process Model," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Eco-friendly interpenetrating network hydrogels integrated with natural soil colloid as a green and sustainable modifier for slow release of agrochemicals," 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Network of burnout, depression, anxiety, and dropout intention in medical undergraduates," 2023, International Journal of Social Psychiatry
  • "A network analysis of anxiety and depression symptoms among Chinese nurses in the late stage of the COVID-19 pandemic," 2022, Frontiers in Public Health

Collaborations are a notable part of Yi-Yuan Tang's research, with frequent coauthors including Rongxiang Tang, Qiuxia Wu, Tieqiao Liu, Pu Peng, and Shubao Chen.

Yi-Yuan Tang has also contributed to academic literature through book publications. One such title is New Paradigm of Attention and Attention Training: Mechanisms and Applications, published by Frontiers Media in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation

    Yi‑Yuan Tang;Britta K. Hölzel;Michael I. Posner

  • Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation

    Yi-Yuan Tang;Yinghua Ma;Junhong Wang;Yaxin Fan

  • Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity

    Judson A. Brewer;Patrick D. Worhunsky;Jeremy R. Gray;Yi Yuan Tang

  • Central and autonomic nervous system interaction is altered by short-term meditation

    Yi-Yuan Tang;Yinghua Ma;Yaxin Fan;Hongbo Feng

  • Attention training and attention state training

    Yi-Yuan Tang;Yi-Yuan Tang;Michael I. Posner

  • Short-term meditation induces white matter changes in the anterior cingulate

    Yi Yuan Tang;Qilin Lu;Xiujuan Geng;Elliot A. Stein

  • The anterior cingulate gyrus and the mechanism of self-regulation.

    Michael I. Posner;Mary K. Rothbart;Brad E. Sheese;Yiyuan Tang;Yiyuan Tang

  • Mechanisms of white matter changes induced by meditation

    Yi-Yuan Tang;Qilin Lu;Ming Fan;Yihong Yang

  • Arithmetic processing in the brain shaped by cultures.

    Yiyuan Tang;Wutian Zhang;Kewei Chen;Shigang Feng

  • Cross talk between activation of microglia and astrocytes in pathological conditions in the central nervous system.

    W. Liu;Y. Tang;J. Feng

  • Improving Executive Function and its Neurobiological Mechanisms through a Mindfulness-Based Intervention: Advances within the Field of Developmental Neuroscience

    Yi-Yuan Tang;Lizhu Yang;Leslie D. Leve;Gordon T. Harold

  • Mindfulness meditation improves emotion regulation and reduces drug abuse.

    Yi Yuan Tang;Rongxiang Tang;Michael I. Posner

  • Antidepressant like effects of piperine in chronic mild stress treated mice and its possible mechanisms.

    Song Li;Che Wang;Minwei Wang;Wei Li

  • 2006 Special Issue: Analyzing and shaping human attentional networks

    Michael I. Posner;Brad E. Sheese;Yalçin Odludaş;YiYuan Tang

  • Neural correlates of establishing, maintaining, and switching brain states

    Yi-Yuan Tang;Yi-Yuan Tang;Yi-Yuan Tang;Mary K. Rothbart;Michael I. Posner

  • Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Translation of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)

    Yu Qin Deng;Song Li;Yi Yuan Tang;Lian Hua Zhu

  • Brief meditation training induces smoking reduction

    Yi-Yuan Tang;Rongxiang Tang;Michael I. Posner

  • Circuitry of self-control and its role in reducing addiction

    Yi-Yuan Tang;Yi-Yuan Tang;Michael I. Posner;Mary K. Rothbart;Nora D. Volkow

  • Chronic mild stress impairs cognition in mice: from brain homeostasis to behavior.

    Song Li;Che Chuan Wang;Wei Wang;Huiping Dong

  • Improving creativity performance by short-term meditation

    Xiaoqian Ding;Yi-Yuan Tang;Yi-Yuan Tang;Rongxiang Tang;Michael I Posner

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael I. Posner
Michael I. Posner University of Oregon
Mary K. Rothbart
Mary K. Rothbart University of Oregon
Yihong Yang
Yihong Yang National Institute on Drug Abuse
Leslie D. Leve
Leslie D. Leve University of Oregon
Jochen Weber
Jochen Weber Columbia University
Hedy Kober
Hedy Kober Yale University
Gordon Thomas Harold
Gordon Thomas Harold University of Cambridge
Jeremy R. Gray
Jeremy R. Gray Michigan State University
Judson A. Brewer
Judson A. Brewer Brown University
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health

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