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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). 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 coorelation (Tang et al, PNAS, 2009).
Dr. Tang has published more than 170 internationally/nationally
peer-reviewed articles and received Distinguished Scholar Award in New
Century from Ministry of Education in China, First Prize for Scientific
Innovation (Liaoning), First Prize for Scientific Achievement (Dalian)
and Distinguished Teaching Awards 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, 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 Science¡¢Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, Human Brain
Mapping¡¢Neuroimage¡¢Psychoneuroendocrinology, Physiology &
Behavior¡¢Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and
Cognition, Learning and Individual Differences, 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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