MISSION
Our Lab aims to better understand the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying social interaction and their relations to neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders and to translate this knowledge to develop novel treatments.
APPROACH
We address this topic using an interdisciplinary approach, creatively combining naturalistic paradigms, neuroimaging (fNIRS, fMRI), brain stimulation (TMS, intracranial stimulation), behavioral recording (eye-tracking, mobile app), brain-lesion studies, machine learning, and network analyses.
2025
2025.06: Zhuoran's first author paper "Multimodal Evidence for Hippocampal Engagement and Modulation by Functional Connectivity-Guided Parietal TMS" is posted on bioRxiv!
2025.06: Bella's co-first author paper "Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex TMS evokes responses in the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex: Evidence from human intracranial EEG" has been accepted by Brain Stimulation!
2025.06: We welcome Corey Plate to join us as an MSTP summer rotation student!
2025.05: We welcome Sophia Symalla to join us as a summer undergraduate BSURP student!
2025.05: Jing was invited for a talk at the 12th Annual Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium. Bella presented her work on amygdala engagement by DLPFC stimulation at the symposium.
2024
2024.11: We welcome Ziyan Chen to join us as a visiting graduate student!
2024.11: Our TMS-fMRI project is IRB approved!
2024.10: Zhuoran presented his project "Causal Evidence of Hippocampus Engagement by Parietal Stimulation" at SfN 2024!
2024.08: We welcome Nandi Zhang to our lab as a research assistant!
2024.07: We welcome Emily Gittle to our lab as a research intern!
2024.06: Jing was invited for a talk at the 2024 OHBM conference in Seoul, South Korea. Bella presented her work on amygdala engagement by DLPFC stimulation at the conference.
2024.04: Jing's first R01 "Mapping a causal prefrontal pathway for amygdala modulation utilizing invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation and recording methods in humans" has been awarded by NIH!
2023
2023.09: We welcome Kang Wu to join us as a visiting graduate student!
2023.09: We welcome Dr. Zhuoran Li from Tsinghua University to join us as a new postdoc!
2023.08: We welcome Bella (Xianqing) Liu to our lab as a new Neuroscience Ph.D student!
2023.02: Dr. Jiang's 1st-author paper "A lesion-derived brain network for emotion regulation" is out now in Biological Psychiatry!
2023.01: Dr. Jiang has been selected to present in the "Rising Star Showcase" at the Biological Psychiatry meeting in San Diego in April!
Join the Team Today !
If you're interested in learning more about our positions or have any questions, don't hesitate to send any inquiries to Dr. Jing Jiang.