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Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang
 Dr. Tang was born in China and started eastern traditional practice and
training when he was very young and learned different body-mind methods
and techniques from more than 20 teachers. He has been working at the
universities over 20 years since he got the first faculty position at
Dalian Medical University in 1987. He has been a full Professor of
Neuroinformatics and Neuroscience, and the founding director and
director of the first Institute of Neuroinformatics and Laboratory of
Body and Mind in Chinese university since 2001. He is also the adjunct
professor at the Center for Social & Organizational Behavior, Graduate
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the adjunct professor at Key
Laboratory for Mental Health, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the
adjunct professor at PLA General Hospital (301 Hospital), Beijing,
China. Dr. Tang is a research professor working with Prof. Michael Posner applying meditation training attention and self-regulation at the University of Oregon, USA. He is the Director of Texas Tech Neuroimaging Institute, Presidential Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Professor at Department of Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences, Texas Tech University, USA.
Dr. Tang has been internationally known in the use of functional MRI to
examine brain connectivity in cognitive task and found cultures shape
math processing in the brain
(Tang etal, PNAS, 2006). Based on the results from many adults
and children ranging from 4 to 90 years old in China, Dr. Tang developed
Integrative Body-Mind Training (IBMT) in the 1990’s and its effects
studied in China since 1995. His recent results indicated that IBMT is
an easy, effective way for improvement in self-regulation in cognition,
emotion and social behavior within 5 days of training
(Tang etal, PNAS, 2007). IBMT improves
attention and self-regulation by changing the interaction between the
central (brain) and the autonomic (body) systems as indexed by ACC theta
power and high frequency HRV correlation
(Tang etal, PNAS, 2009). Eleven
hours of IBMT induces white matter changes in the anterior cingulate in
the brain. Thus, IBMT could provide a means for improving
self-regulation and perhaps reducing or preventing various mental
disorders
(Tang etal, PNAS, 2010).
Recent research also indicated the mechanisms of white matter changes induced by IBMT (Tang et al, PNAS, 2012). IBMT is a state training technique compared to the computerized network training
(Tang et al, TICS, 2012).
Dr. Tang is APS Fellow (Association for Psychological Science) and
received New Century Excellent Talents Awards from Ministry of Education
in China, Distinguished Teaching Awards and Mentor Award for Graduates
from university, etc. He has published more than 200
internationally/nationally peer-reviewed articles including Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, Neuroimage, Human Brain Mapping, Progress in Brain Research,
Neurocomputing, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition Letters, Brain
Research, Neuroscience Letters, Experimental Neurology, Cognitive,
Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Life Science, Psychiatry Research,
Stress and Health, Physica A, NeuroReport, Chinese Science Bulletin,
Chin Phys Lett, Chin Med J., etc. His works have been reported and commented by leading prestigious journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Review Neuroscience, Neuron, TICS and many media such as the Associate Press, Reuters, AFP, NBC, NPR, CNN, CBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Time, Oprah Magazine，Parade Magazine, Reader Digest, Prevention Magazine, New Scientists, CCTV, China Daily,etc.
Dr. Tang is the Associate Editor of Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) andserves as reviewers for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping, Neuroimage, Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience,Psychoneuroendocrinology, Cerebral Cortex,Developmental Science, Neuropsychologia, Biological Psychology, Brain, Behavior and Immunity, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Neuroinformatics, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, Physiology & Behavior, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Learning and Individual Differences, Neuropsychology Review, PLoS ONE,etc. His research received support from NSFC, MOST, MOE in China and AP Foundation, Bower Foundation, Templeton Foundation, NIH, ONR
in US.
Dr. Tang’s research applies the tools of neuroimaging (fMRI, PET/SPECT,
ERP), psychosocial and physiological measures (heart rate variability,
skin conductance, etc) as well as genetic analysis and covers the topics
in cultural neuroscience, cognitive, affective and social neuroscience,
developmental neuroscience, body-mind medicine, prevention science,
computational neuroscience and neuroleadership. He is the founder of the
Integrative Body Mind Training (IBMT) and once trained many thousands
children and adults to improve the attention, self-regulation and
performance.
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: yiyuan@uoregon.edu
Dr.Yi-Yuan Tang
