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Yihong Yang is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within neuroscience and medicine, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology. The body of work includes 97 publications in neuroscience and 55 in medicine.

The scientist's research concentrates on several main topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Yihong Yang has published recent papers covering a range of topics in notable journals. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Converging Structural and Functional Evidence for a Rat Salience Network, 2020, Biological Psychiatry
  • Supramammillary neurons projecting to the septum regulate dopamine and motivation for environmental interaction in mice, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal striatum functional connectivity predicts incubation of opioid craving after voluntary abstinence, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Dose-dependent relationship between social drinking and brain aging, 2021, Neurobiology of Aging
  • Whole brain dynamics during optogenetic self-stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex in mice, 2021, Communications Biology

They have collaborated frequently with a number of other researchers. The most frequent coauthors include:

  • Hanbing Lu
  • Elliot A. Stein
  • Hong Gu
  • Pei-Jung Tsai
  • Ying Duan

The primary venues where Yihong Yang has published multiple papers are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Scientific Meeting and Exhibition / Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • An improved approach to detection of amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) for resting-state fMRI: fractional ALFF.

    Qi-Hong Zou;Chao-Zhe Zhu;Yihong Yang;Xi-Nian Zuo

  • Differential patterns of striatal activation in young children with and without ADHD.

    Sarah Durston;Sarah Durston;Nim T. Tottenham;Kathleen M. Thomas;Matthew C. Davidson

  • A neural basis for the development of inhibitory control

    Sarah Durston;Kathleen M. Thomas;Yihong Yang;Aziz M. Uluğ

  • Rat brains also have a default mode network

    Hanbing Lu;Qihong Zou;Qihong Zou;Hong Gu;Marcus E. Raichle

  • Coupling of functional connectivity and regional cerebral blood flow reveals a physiological basis for network hubs of the human brain

    Xia Liang;Xia Liang;Qihong Zou;Yong He;Yihong Yang

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

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

  • Amplitude of low frequency fluctuation within visual areas revealed by resting-state functional MRI.

    Hong Yang;Xiang-Yu Long;Yihong Yang;Hao Yan

  • Lack of ventral striatal response to positive stimuli in depressed versus normal subjects

    Jane Epstein;Hong Pan;James H Kocsis;Yihong Yang

  • Simple Correction Method for k-Space Trajectory Deviations in MRI

    Jeff H. Duyn;Yihong Yang;Joseph A. Frank;Jan Willem van der Veen

  • Mechanisms of white matter changes induced by meditation

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

  • Synchronized delta oscillations correlate with the resting-state functional MRI signal

    Hanbing Lu;Yantao Zuo;Hong Gu;James A. Waltz

  • Investigation of low frequency drift in fMRI signal

    Anne M. Smith;Bobbi K. Lewis;Urs E. Ruttimann;Frank Q. Ye

  • The effect of preceding context on inhibition: an event-related fMRI study.

    S. Durston;S. Durston;Kathleen M Thomas;M. S. Worden;Y. Yang

  • H215O PET validation of steady‐state arterial spin tagging cerebral blood flow measurements in humans

    Frank Q. Ye;Karen Faith Berman;Timothy Ellmore;Giuseppe Esposito

  • Mesocorticolimbic circuits are impaired in chronic cocaine users as demonstrated by resting-state functional connectivity.

    Hong Gu;Betty Jo Salmeron;Thomas J. Ross;Xiujuan Geng

  • Differential time courses and specificity of amygdala activity in posttraumatic stress disorder subjects and normal control subjects

    Xenia Protopopescu;Xenia Protopopescu;Hong Pan;Oliver Tuescher;Marylene Cloitre

  • The influence of carbon dioxide on brain activity and metabolism in conscious humans.

    Feng Xu;Jinsoo Uh;Matthew R. Brier;John Hart

  • Evidence of Developmental Differences in Implicit Sequence Learning: An fMRI Study of Children and Adults

    Kathleen M. Thomas;Ruskin H. Hunt;Nathalie Vizueta;Tobias Sommer

  • Association of nicotine addiction and nicotine's actions with separate cingulate cortex functional circuits.

    L. Elliot Hong;Hong Gu;Yihong Yang;Thomas J. Ross

  • Neural substrates of the interaction of emotional stimulus processing and motor inhibitory control: An emotional linguistic go/no-go fMRI study

    Martin Goldstein;Gary Brendel;Oliver Tuescher;Oliver Tuescher;Hong Pan

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot A. Stein
Elliot A. Stein National Institute on Drug Abuse
Hong Gu
Hong Gu National Institute on Drug Abuse
Thomas J. Ross
Thomas J. Ross National Institute on Drug Abuse
Emily Stern
Emily Stern Brigham and Women's Hospital
David Silbersweig
David Silbersweig Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jeff H. Duyn
Jeff H. Duyn National Institutes of Health
Betty Jo Salmeron
Betty Jo Salmeron National Institute on Drug Abuse
Venkata S. Mattay
Venkata S. Mattay Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Yu-Feng Zang
Yu-Feng Zang Hangzhou Normal University
Jia-Hong Gao
Jia-Hong Gao Peking University

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