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Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang
In Chinese, ¡°Yi ( )¡± means ¡°One¡±, ¡°Yuan( )¡± means ¡°Source¡±, ¡°One Source¡± means ¡°Tao( )¡±, ¡°Tao¡± means ¡°principles in nature and human beings¡±.
Dr. Tang¡¯s mission is to integrate the eastern wisdom and western
science working with his teams and other colleagues in the world to
explore the truths in body, brain/mind, nature and life, and then
benefit the nature and human beings. During the journey, Dr. Tang will
improve and purify himself and achieve his self-growth and
enlightenment.
Dr. Tang was born in China and started eastern traditional practice and
training when he was very young and learned different body-mind method
and techniques from more than 20 teachers. He has been working at the
universities for 21 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 of the
Institute of Neuroinformatics and Laboratory of Body and Mind since
2001. He is also the adjunct professor at the Center for Social &
Organizational Behavior, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of
Sciences, the Key Laboratory for Mental Health, the Chinese Academy of
Sciences and the PLA General Hospital (301 Hospital), Beijing, China.
Dr. Tang is currently visiting professor working with Prof. Michael
Posner applying meditation training attention and self-regulation at the
University of Oregon, 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 et al, 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 (Tang et al, PNAS, 2007).
Dr.
Tang published more than 150 research papers and 8 books and received
Distinguished Scholar Award in New Century, Ministry of Education in
China, First Prize for Scientific Innovation (Liaoning Province), First
Prize for Scientific Achievement (Dalian) and Distinguished Teaching
Award from university, etc. His research received support from National
Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology,
Ministry of Education in China, etc. Media coverage by Nature, Science,
Nature Review Neuroscience, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, the Associate
Press, NBC, Reuters, Washington Post, Los Angeles Time, CBC,Oprah Magazine, Reader Digest,Prevention Magazine, New Scientists, CCTV, China
Daily, etc.
Dr. Tang¡¯s research applies
the tools of neuroimaging (fMRI, PET/SPECT, ERP), psychosocial and
physiological measures as well as genetic analysis and covers the topics
in cultural neuroscience, body-mind medicine, affective and social
neuroscience, 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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Dr.Yi-Yuan Tang
: yiyuan@uoregon.edu
