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Mr. HUANG Yi-hang from the CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology has received "Earlier Career Award" from the 2025 Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) Congress Update time: 2025/4/14

Research Findings Suggest Exhibition-inhibition Balance and Ventral Prefrontal cortex Functional Connectivity to Be Important Biomarkers for Social Anhedonia and Social Functioning Update time: 2025/3/14

Recent Findings Characterize the Real-life Affective Forecasting Performances in People with High Social Anhedonia Update time: 2025/2/17

Findings suggest motivation-pleasure and expression to be a transdiagnostic latent structure of negative symptoms across bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder Update time: 2024/11/12

A critical review shows that anhedonia is observed across and beyond the schizophrenia spectrum disorders Update time: 2024/10/18

Findings suggest motivation-pleasure and expression to be a transdiagnostic latent structure of negative symptoms across bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder Update time: 2024/11/12

A critical review shows that anhedonia is observed across and beyond the schizophrenia spectrum disorders Update time: 2024/10/08

Findings Show Childhood Trauma Associating Significantly with the Development of Psychopathology across Psychiatric Disorders Update time: 2024/08/23

Research Findings Characterize the Multidimensional Features of Anhedonia Performances of Subclinical Samples Update time: 2024/08/23

Recent Study Has Revisited the Role of Negative Symptoms in Treatment-resistance Schizophrenia Update time: 2024/07/17

Dr. Raymond Chan from the NACN Lab, Institute of Psychology Co-chaired the Biennial Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Joint Symposium with Prof. DENG Ci-ping from East China Normal University Update time: 2024/07/02

Dr. Raymond Chan from the CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology gave a keynote speech at the 2024 Schizophrenia Forum Update time: 2024/07/01

Ms. WANG Xuan from the CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology has received "Earlier Career Award" from the 2024 Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) Congress Update time: 2024/04/26

Patients with First Episode Schizophrenia Exhibit Both Hypo- and Hyper-activation in Frontotemporal Lobe during Humor Processing Update time: 2024/01/09

Patients with Schizophrenia and Major Depressive Disorder Exhibit Different Extent of Deficits in Discriminating Rewarding Values Contributing to Amotivation Update time: 2024/01/09

Research Findings Show the Validity of A Newly Developed Social Affective Forecasting Scale for Clinical Practice Update time: 2023/10/09

Motivation and pleasure deficits play important role in social functioning across psychiatric disorders Update time: 2023/08/01

Research Findings Show Altered Reward Motivation Adaptation in People with Negative Schizotypal Traits Update time: 2023/07/11

Findings Show that Altered Resting-state Functional Connectivity Correlates with Interoceptive Difficulties and Social Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorders Update time: 2023/07/11

Findings Show that Patients with First-episode Schizophrenia Exhibit Impairments in Envisioning Future Events Update time: 2023/06/08

Ms. HU, Hui-xin from the CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology has received "Earlier Career Award" from the 2023 Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) Congress Update time: 2023/05/19

Dr. Raymond Chan from the CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology Gave a Plenary Speech at the 2023 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society Update time: 2023/05/19

Findings Show Specific Links between Childhood Trauma and Schizotypy Dimensions in the Youth Population Update time: 2023/05/04

Recent Meta-analysis Shows Anhedonia in Schizophrenia Spectrum Involving Alterations in Striatum, Orbital Frontal Cortex, Cingulate Cortex and CerebellumUpdate time: 2023/04/04

Findings Suggest Individuals with High Level of Schizotypy Exhibiting Decreased Brain Activations Associating with Mental Time TravellingUpdate time: 2023/02/28

Findings Show that Emotion-behaviour Decoupling and Experiential Pleasure Deficits Could Differentiate Schizophrenia Patient with Different Moderate Term Outcome Update time: 2023/01/30

Findings Suggest the Interplay between Addictive Behaviour and Psychopathology and Personality in Substance Use Disorder Update time: 2022/12/26

Dr. Raymond Chan was Invited to Give A Plenary Speech at the Chinese Neuropsychology Conference Update time: 2022/12/26

Dr. Raymond Chan was Invited to Give A Plenary Speech at the 2nd Pan-Asia Symposium on the Genetics of Brain Disorders 2022 Update time: 2022/11/08

Schizophrenia Patients and Individuals with Social Anhedonia Show Altered Neural Processing for Social Reward Anticipation Update time: 2022/11/01

Researchers Compare the Audiovisual Temporal Processing in Adult Patients with First-episode Schizophrenia and High-functioning Autism Update time: 2022/09/28

Findings Suggest Motivation-pleasure and Expression Are the Two Latent Factors Underling Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia Patients Update time: 2022/09/08

Recent Findings Show the Interrelationship between the Different Domains of Negative Symptoms across Different Measurement Scales in Schizophrenia PatientsUpdate time: 2022/09/01

Findings Show Dissociation between Hub-connected Functional Connectivity of the Social Brain Network and Real-world Social Network in People with Social AnhedoniaUpdate time: 2022/08/24

Dr. Raymond Chan from the Institute of Psychology Has Organized the 4th Online Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience SymposiumUpdate time: 2022/08/17

Dr. Raymond Chan from the CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology has received the Arthur Benton Mid-career achievement award from International Neuropsychological Society Update time: 2022/07/11

Research Findings Show that Anterior Cingulate Glutamate Levels Associate with Functional Connectivity during Sensory Integration in Schizophrenia Update time: 2022/07/11

Dr. Raymond Chan and his team made online presentations at the 2022 International Consortium for Schizotypy Research held in Marburg, Germany Update time: 2022/06/17

Research Findings Show Negative Schizotypal Traits Predicting Reward Motivation Reduction in Effort-reward Imbalance Update time: 2022/06/08

Nature Reviews Psychology Publishes Dr. Raymond Chan's Critical Review on the Theories and Models of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia and Clinical Implications Update time: 2022/05/30

Motivation/Pleasure Deficits but not Expression Impairments Contribute to Social Dysfunction in Patients With Schizophrenia Update time: 2022/05/11

Empirical Findings Show That Prospective Memory Influences Social Functioning in People With First-episode Schizophrenia Update time: 2022/03/02

Children with Autism and High Autistic Traits Exhibit Difficulties in Sensing and Comprehending Internal Bodily Signals Update time: 2022/02/09

Patients with Schizophrenia, Major depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder Exhibit Shared and Distinct Reward Neural Mechanisms Update time: 2022/01/28

Neurological soft signs associate with altered brain structural networks in both patients with schizophrenia and unaffected first-degree relatives Update time: 2021/12/10

Dr. Raymond Chan from CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology Has Recently Been Elected as Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts Update time: 2021/12/09

Research Findings Illustrate the Distinct Neural Mechanisms of Envisioning the Future in Individuals with Subclinical Psychopathology Update time: 2021/12/07 

Dr. Raymond Chan was invited to present an online keynote report at the III Congress on Mental Health: Meeting the needs of the XXI century Update time: 2021/10/15 

Altered Resting-state Functional Connectivity Weakens the Real-life Social Network in Schizophrenia Patients and Individuals with Social Anhedonia Update time: 2021/10/15

The Virtual Research Centre for Transdiagnostic Clinical and Subclinical Groups has organized a symposium on transdiagnostic mental health research Update time: 2021/09/24

Dr. Raymond Chan Chaired the Symposium on Prospection Science in Schizophrenia for the 7th Asian Congress of Schizophrenia Research Update time: 2021/09/16

Patients with Schizophrenia at Different Stages of the Illness Show Different Extent of Deficits in Discriminating Rewarding Values Contributing to Amotivation Update time: 2021/08/26

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The NACN Lab is a research group in the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. It is a question-oriented laboratory focusing on neuropsychiatric disorders, mainly schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Our main objective is to understand brain-behaviour relationship and how the advancement of cognitive neuroscience, affective neuroscience, and social cognitive neuroscience help us formulate a better understanding of underlying mechanism of neurocognitive deficits observed in patients with neuropsychiatric disorders, mainly schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

The strategy is to study distinct neurocognitive performance (particularly attention and executive function) and everyday life cognitive errors in healthy people, at-risk individuals, patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and related neuropsychiatric disorders with various methodologies.

The methodological approach of the lab is to look for convergence and complementarity from multiple research tools. Behavioural experiments are combined with brain-imaging methods with spatial (structural and functional MRI) and temporal (ERPs) resolution. We also adopt animal models and psychopharmacological approach and genetic related analysis to study the wide range effect of antipsychotics on disorders and to find out the optimal endophenotypic markers for neurological and psychiatric patients.

The laboratory is led by Professor Raymond Chan. Postdoctoral scientists and students are encouraged to work independently and cooperatively on relevant questions of their own interest.

In this web site, we seek to provide information about our activities. We welcome any dialogue or critical comments on our research. We thank you for your interest. If you wish to contact us, send an email to: rckchan@psych.ac.cn

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