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.

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).

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 180 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, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and many media such as the Associate Press, NBC, Reuters, NPR, Washington Post, Los Angeles Time, CBC, Oprah Magazine, Parade Magazine, Reader Digest, Prevention Magazine, New Scientists, CCTV, China Daily, etc.

Dr. Tang serves 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, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Neuropsychologia, Brain, Behavior and Immunity, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, Physiology & Behavior, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Learning and Individual Differences, etc. His research received support from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education in China and AP Foundation, Bower Foundation, Templeton Foundation, etc.

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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