Forensic Science and Psychology

Yuan Zhou received her MS in Psychiatry and Mental Health from Wuhan University in 2004 and her PhD in Pattern Recognition and Intelligence System from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She has been conducting research actively in neuroimaging and mental health, at first in characterizing the brain network of schizophrenic patients using resting-state fMRI and then in investigating cognitive deficit in psychiatric disorders using taskbased fMRI. Recently, her research interest has focused specifically on understanding social decision making in patients with schizophrenia or major depressive disorder and its underlying psychopathology and neural basis. She has published her work in international journals including Cerebral Cortex, NeuroImage, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research, etc.