Ms. HU, Hu-xin, a final year doctoral student under the supervision of Dr. Raymond Chan from the Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience (NACN) Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, the Institute of Psychology has recently received the Early Career Award of the 2023 Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) Congress. She has made an oral presentation at the 2023 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society in Toronto, May 11-15 on the title of “Frontostriatal resting-state functional connectivity abnormalities correlate with motivation and pleasure deficits in schizophrenia.” There are a total of 47 Early Career Awards granted. This is the ninth time of the NACN Lab to receive similar kind of awards for their schizophrenia research findings. The SIRS is the most important conference in the field of schizophrenia research. For the past few years, over a thousand of researchers and scientists came from different countries attended each conference and exchange their data, techniques and ideas, which helped to facilitate the scientific research and clinical treatments.

                                                                                                                                                                                                         2023 SIRS Early Career Awardees