Nanyin Zhang

Huck Chair in Brain Imaging; Professor of Bioengineering

Nanyin Zhang

Research Summary

Investigate the pathophysiology of brain disorders using neuroimaging, behavioral and optogenetic methods.

Graduate Students

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Rodentia Animal Models Prefrontal Cortex Therapeutics Amygdala Schizophrenia Gray Matter Gyrus Cinguli Post Traumatic Stress Disorders Neuroimaging Freezing Wounds And Injuries Anxiety Animals Neuronal Plasticity White Matter Parietal Lobe Corpus Striatum Unconscious (Psychology) Atlases Consciousness Temporal Lobe Knockout Mice

Most Recent Papers

Individual variability in behavior and functional networks predicts vulnerability using an animal model of PTSD

David Dopfel, Pablo D. Perez, Alexander Verbitsky, Hector Bravo-Rivera, Yuncong Ma, Gregory J. Quirk, Nanyin Zhang, 2019, Nature communications

Propagations of spontaneous brain activity in awake rats

Yikang Liu, Nanyin Zhang, 2019, NeuroImage

Age-Related Reduction in Cortical Thickness in First-Episode Treatment-Naïve Patients with Schizophrenia

Yin Lin, Mingli Li, Yi Zhou, Wei Deng, Xiaohong Ma, Qiang Wang, Wanjun Guo, Yinfei Li, Lijun Jiang, Xun Hu, Nanyin Zhang, Tao Li, 2019, Neuroscience Bulletin on p. 688-696

Progressive brain structural changes after the first year of treatment in first-episode treatment-naive patients with deficit or nondeficit schizophrenia

Wei Lei, Brian Kirkpatrick, Qiang Wang, Wei Deng, Mingli Li, Wanjun Guo, Sugai Liang, Yinfei Li, Chengcheng Zhang, Xiaojing Li, Pingping Zhang, Zhe Li, Bo Xiang, Jing Chen, Xun Hu, Nanyin Zhang, Tao Li, 2019, Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging on p. 12-20

A role for the claustrum in salience processing?

Jared B. Smith, Glenn D.R. Watson, Zhifeng Liang, Yikang Liu, Nanyin Zhang, Kevin D. Alloway, 2019, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

GABAergic Abnormalities Associated with Sensorimotor Cortico-striatal Community Structural Deficits in ErbB4 Knockout Mice and First-Episode Treatment-Naïve Patients with Schizophrenia

Chengcheng Zhang, Peiyan Ni, Yikang Liu, Yang Tian, Jinxue Wei, Bo Xiang, Liansheng Zhao, Xiaojing Li, Xiaohong Ma, Wei Deng, Wanjun Guo, Rongjun Ni, Yamin Zhang, Qiang Wang, Hailiang Huang, Nanyin Zhang, Tao Li, 2019, Neuroscience Bulletin

Global brain signal in awake rats

Yuncong Ma, Zilu Ma, Zhifeng Liang, Thomas Neuberger, Nanyin Zhang, 2019, Brain Structure and Function

Development of brain-wide connectivity architecture in awake rats

Zilu Ma, Yuncong Ma, Nanyin Zhang, 2018, NeuroImage on p. 380-389

Functional atlas of the awake rat brain

Zhiwei Ma, Pablo Perez, Zilu Ma, Yikang Liu, Christina Hamilton, Zhifeng Liang, Nanyin Zhang, 2018, NeuroImage on p. 95-112

Anomalous gray matter structural networks in recent onset post-traumatic stress disorder

Shun Qi, Yun Feng Mu, Long Biao Cui, Jian Zhang, Fan Guo, Qing Rong Tan, Mei Shi, Kang Liu, Yi Bin Xi, Nan Yin Zhang, Xiao Liang Zhang, Yong He, Jian Yang, Hong Yin, 2018, Brain Imaging and Behavior on p. 390-401

Most-Cited Papers

Uncovering intrinsic connectional architecture of functional networks in awake rat brain

Zhifeng Liang, Jean King, Nanyin Zhang, 2011, Journal of Neuroscience on p. 3776-3783

Intrinsic organization of the anesthetized brain

Zhifeng Liang, Jean King, Nanyin Zhang, 2012, Journal of Neuroscience on p. 10183-10191

Anticorrelated resting-state functional connectivity in awake rat brain

Zhifeng Liang, Jean King, Nanyin Zhang, 2012, NeuroImage on p. 1190-1199

Dynamic resting state functional connectivity in awake and anesthetized rodents

Zhifeng Liang, Xiao Liu, Nanyin Zhang, 2015, NeuroImage on p. 89-99

Amygdala-orbitofrontal resting-state functional connectivity is associated with trait anger

Carl E. Fulwiler, Jean A. King, Nanyin Zhang, 2012, Neuroreport on p. 606-610

Mapping thalamocortical networks in rat brain using resting-state functional connectivity

Zhifeng Liang, Tao Li, Jean King, Nanyin Zhang, 2013, NeuroImage on p. 237-244

The development and expression of physical nicotine dependence corresponds to structural and functional alterations in the anterior cingulate-precuneus pathway

Wei Huang, Jean A. King, W. W.Sanouri Ursprung, Shaokuan Zheng, Nanyin Zhang, David N. Kennedy, Douglas Ziedonis, Joseph R. DiFranza, 2014, Brain and Behavior on p. 408-417

Mapping the functional network of medial prefrontal cortex by combining optogenetics and fMRI in awake rats

Zhifeng Liang, Glenn D.R. Watson, Kevin D. Alloway, Gangchea Lee, Thomas Neuberger, Nanyin Zhang, 2015, NeuroImage on p. 114-123

Neuroplasticity to a single-episode traumatic stress revealed by resting-state fMRI in awake rats

Zhifeng Liang, Jean King, Nanyin Zhang, 2014, NeuroImage on p. 485-491

Dynamic Connectivity Patterns in Conscious and Unconscious Brain

Yuncong Ma, Christina Hamilton, Nanyin Zhang, 2017, Brain Connectivity on p. 1-12