EDUCATION

10/2001 – 10/2005      PhD, Department of Psychology, Department of Automatic Control and System Engineering, University of Sheffield

• Identification and Modelling of Haemodynamic Response to Neural Activity during Brain Activity

09/1996 – 07/2001      B.Eng, Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

• Image Processing & Systems Engineering

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
12/2016 – present      Professor, Psychology Institute
Chinese Academy of Sciences
01/2020 – present      Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
01/2009 – present       Research Fellow, WIN centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford
11/2005 – 12/2008     Research Assistant, Centre for Imaging Sciences, University of Manchester

TEACHING
2018 – now  1. Programming for Psychologists 2. Introduction of MRI analysis
(MSc courses, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
2019             Official FSL course, Beijing https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/2019_Beijing

Pain neuroscience, chronic pain mechanisms, spinal cord MRI

Deputy Director, MRI Research Centre

Professor, Psychology Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences

kongyz@psych.ac.cn

Senior Research Fellow 

yazhuo.kong@ndcn.ox.ac.uk

Associate Editor in Frontiers in Pain Research

Guest Editor in eLife 

Guest Editor in Neural Plasticity

1. Zhang M, Yang Z, Zhong J, Zhang Y, Lin X, Cai H^#, Kong Y^# (2022) Thalamocortical mechanisms for nostalgia-induced analgesia. Journal of Neuroscience, 1 March 2022, JN-RM-2123-21
2. Li H, Song Q, Zhang R, Zhou Y, Kong Y^#. 2021. Enhanced temporal coupling between thalamus and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex mediates chronic low back pain and depression. Neural Plast 2021, 7498714. doi:10.1155/2021/7498714
3. Cohen-Adad, J., Alonso-Ortiz, Kong Y. et al. 2021. Generic acquisition protocol for quantitative MRI of the spinal cord. Nature Protocol (2021) 16, 4611–4632
4. Cohen-Adad, J., Alonso-Ortiz, Kong Y. et al. 2021. Open-access quantitative MRI data of the spinal cord and reproducibility across participants, sites and manufacturers. Sci Data 8, 219 (2021).
5. Zhang M, Zhang Y, Mu Y, Wei Z, Kong Y^# 2021. Gender discrimination facilitates fMRI responses and connectivity to thermal pain. NeuroImage, 244, 118644.
6. Zhang M., Zhang Y., Li Z., Hu L., Kong Y. ^# 2021. Sexism-Related Stigma Affects Pain Perception. Neural Plast 2021, 6612456
7. Mariano R., Messina S., Roca-Fernandez A., Leite M.I., Kong Y. ^#, Palace J.A.^#, 2020. Quantitative spinal cord MRI in MOG-antibody disease, neuromyelitis optica and multiple sclerosis. Brain. doi:10.1093/brain/awaa347
8. Li H., Li X., Feng Y., Gao F^#., Kong Y^#., Hu L., 2020. Deficits in ascending and descending pain modulation pathways in patients with postherpetic neuralgia. NeuroImage 117186. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117186
9. Kong Y., Okoruwa H., Revis J., Tackley G., Leite M.I., Lee M., Tracey I., Palace J., 2016. Pain in patients with transverse myelitis and its relationship to aquaporin 4 antibody status. J. Neurol. Sci. 368, 84–88.
10. Eippert F*., Kong Y.*, Winkler A.M., Andersson J.L., Finsterbusch J., Büchel C., Brooks J.C.W., Tracey I., 2016. Investigating resting-state functional connectivity in the cervical spinal cord at 3T. NeuroImage 147, 589–601.
11. Kong Y. *, Eippert F. *, Beckmann C.F., Andersson J., Finsterbusch J., Büchel C., Tracey I., Brooks J.C.W., 2014. Intrinsically organized resting state networks in the human spinal cord. Proc Natl Acad Sci 111, 18067–18072.
12. Kong Y., Jenkinson M., Andersson J., Tracey I., Brooks J.C.W., 2012. Assessment of physiological noise modelling methods for functional imaging of the spinal cord. NeuroImage 60, 1538–1549.
13. Kong Y, Zheng Y, Johnston D, Martindale J, Jones M, Billings S, Mayhew J (2004). A model of the dynamic relationship between blood flow and volume changes during brain activation. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 24, 1382-1392.