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Overview

Zhijun Zhang is affiliated with Southeast University in China and has a substantial body of research focused on medicine and neuroscience, particularly within cognitive neuroscience and molecular biology. Their academic contributions emphasize the study of mental health disorders and brain function through advanced neuroimaging techniques.

Their research extensively covers topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, tryptophan and brain disorders, neural dynamics and brain function, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Zhijun Zhang's most frequently published venues include:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, including Chunming Xie, Yonggui Yuan, Hongxing Zhang, Haisan Zhang, and Cancan He.

Significant recent publications consist of:

  • Disrupted intrinsic functional brain topology in patients with major depressive disorder (2021) published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • N6-Methyladenosine Modification of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Messenger RNA in Circular RNA STAG1-Regulated Astrocyte Dysfunction and Depressive-like Behaviors (2020) published in Biological Psychiatry
  • Altered resting-state dynamic functional brain networks in major depressive disorder: Findings from the REST-meta-MDD consortium (2020) published in NeuroImage Clinical
  • Biotypes of major depressive disorder: Neuroimaging evidence from resting-state default mode network patterns (2020) published in NeuroImage Clinical
  • The DIRECT consortium and the REST-meta-MDD project: towards neuroimaging biomarkers of major depressive disorder (2022) published in Psychoradiology

The emphasis in these publications reflects a concentration on depressive disorders, brain network topology, and neuroimaging biomarkers, integrating molecular and functional neuroscience approaches to understanding major depressive disorder.

Zhijun Zhang's work spans 192 publications in medicine and 147 in neuroscience, with additional specialization across subfields such as experimental and cognitive psychology, neurology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Best Publications

  • A selective decrease in the relative density of parvalbumin-immunoreactive neurons in the hippocampus in schizophrenia.

    Zhi Jun Zhang;Gavin P. Reynolds

  • Association of antipsychotic drug-induced weight gain with a 5-HT2C receptor gene polymorphism.

    Gavin P Reynolds;Zhi-Jun Zhang;Zhi-Jun Zhang;Xiao-Bin Zhang

  • Resting brain connectivity: changes during the progress of Alzheimer disease.

    Hong-Ying Zhang;Shi-Jie Wang;Bin Liu;Zhan-Long Ma

  • Topologically Convergent and Divergent Structural Connectivity Patterns between Patients with Remitted Geriatric Depression and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Feng Bai;Ni Shu;Yonggui Yuan;Yongmei Shi

  • Detection of PCC functional connectivity characteristics in resting-state fMRI in mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Hong-Ying Zhang;Shi-Jie Wang;Jiong Xing;Bin Liu

  • Effects of antipsychotics on fat deposition and changes in leptin and insulin levels. Magnetic resonance imaging study of previously untreated people with schizophrenia.

    Zhi-Jun Zhang;Zhi-Jian Yao;Wen Liu;Qun Fang

  • Default-mode network activity distinguishes amnestic type mild cognitive impairment from healthy aging: A combined structural and resting-state functional MRI study

    Feng Bai;Zhijun Zhang;Hui Yu;Yongmei Shi

  • Abnormal resting-state functional connectivity of posterior cingulate cortex in amnestic type mild cognitive impairment

    Feng Bai;David R. Watson;Hui Yu;Yongmei Shi

  • Gut microbiota from NLRP3-deficient mice ameliorates depressive-like behaviors by regulating astrocyte dysfunction via circHIPK2

    Yuan Zhang;Rongrong Huang;Mengjing Cheng;Lirui Wang

  • Polymorphism of the promoter region of the serotonin 5-HT(2C) receptor gene and clozapine-induced weight gain.

    Gavin P. Reynolds;ZhiJun Zhang;XiaoBin Zhang

  • Inflammatory Cytokines and Alzheimer's Disease: A Review from the Perspective of Genetic Polymorphisms.

    Fan Su;Feng Bai;Zhijun Zhang

  • Disrupted intrinsic functional brain topology in patients with major depressive disorder.

    Hong Yang;Xiao Chen;Zuo Bing Chen;Le Li

  • Calcium binding protein markers of GABA deficits in schizophrenia — post mortem studies and animal models

    Gavin P. Reynolds;Zuhal Abdul-Monim;Joanna C. Neill;Zhi-Jun Zhang

  • Abnormal functional connectivity of hippocampus during episodic memory retrieval processing network in amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

    Feng Bai;Zhijun Zhang;David R. Watson;Hui Yu

  • Neurochemical correlates of cortical GABAergic deficits in schizophrenia: selective losses of calcium binding protein immunoreactivity.

    Gavin P Reynolds;Zhi Jun Zhang;Clare L Beasley

  • Abnormal insula functional network is associated with episodic memory decline in amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

    Chunming Xie;Feng Bai;Hui Yu;Yongmei Shi

  • The role of 5-HT2C receptor polymorphisms in the pharmacogenetics of antipsychotic drug treatment

    Gavin P. Reynolds;Lucy A. Templeman;Zhi Jun Zhang

  • Abnormal neural activity in the patients with remitted geriatric depression : A resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Yonggui Yuan;Zhijun Zhang;Feng Bai;Hui Yu

  • Impairments in cognition and resting-state connectivity of the hippocampus in elderly subjects with type 2 diabetes.

    Hong Zhou;Wanjun Lu;Yongmei Shi;Feng Bai

  • Pharmacogenetics of treatment in first-episode schizophrenia: D3 and 5-HT2C receptor polymorphisms separately associate with positive and negative symptom response

    Gavin P. Reynolds;ZhiJian Yao;ZhiJian Yao;XiaoBin Zhang;Jing Sun

  • CircDYM ameliorates depressive-like behavior by targeting miR-9 to regulate microglial activation via HSP90 ubiquitination.

    Yuan Zhang;Longfei Du;Ying Bai;Bing Han

  • Association study of the decreased serum BDNF concentrations in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and the Val66Met polymorphism in Chinese Han.

    Hui Yu;Zhijun Zhang;Yongmei Shi;Feng Bai

  • A rat brain MRI template with digital stereotaxic atlas of fine anatomical delineations in paxinos space and its automated application in voxel-wise analysis.

    Binbin Nie;Kewei Chen;Shujun Zhao;Junhua Liu

  • The role of 5-HT2C receptor polymorphisms in the pharmacogentics of antipsychotic drug treatment

    Gavin Reynolds;L.A. Templeman;Z.J. Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yonggui Yuan
Yonggui Yuan Southeast University
Chunming Xie
Chunming Xie Southeast University
Lingjiang Li
Lingjiang Li Central South University
Gavin P. Reynolds
Gavin P. Reynolds Sheffield Hallam University
Shi-Jiang Li
Shi-Jiang Li Medical College of Wisconsin
Tianzi Jiang
Tianzi Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yong He
Yong He Beijing Normal University
Zhening Liu
Zhening Liu Central South University
Ni Shu
Ni Shu Beijing Normal University
Piero Antuono
Piero Antuono Medical College of Wisconsin

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