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Wenhui Yang
Educational Science
Hunan Normal University
Hunan
Language: Chinese, English
Adolescent Depression
Assessment
Diagnosis
Treatment
Prevention
Cognitive Control
Negative Emotions
Attention Bias
Training
Intervention
Areas of Focus
- Assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of adolescent depressive disorders
- Cognitive control of negative emotions
- Attention bias correction training
Work Experience
- 2014.11 - 2015.10 - Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital - Visiting Scholar
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2014.11 - 2015.10 Visiting Scholar: Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital
- 2009 PhD in Clinical Psychology: Central South University, Xiangya Second Hospital
- 2006 Master's in Clinical Psychology: Central South University, Xiangya Second Hospital
- 2001 Bachelor's in Clinical Medicine: Central South University, Xiangya Medical School
- Developed a Chinese emotional word attention bias correction training program for treating adolescent depression
- Developed a negative emotion cognitive control training software program for preventing adolescent depression
- Published a monograph on depression cognitive theory and attention bias correction training
Publications
- Epidemiology of depressive disorders among youth during Gaokao to college in China: Results from Hunan normal university mental health survey, Wenhui Yang*, Rui Sun, Chong Wang, Jie Chen, Chunguang Zhang, Jie Yu, Haihong Liu, 2023
- Personalized cognitive training: Protocol for individual-level meta-analysis implementing machine learning methods, Shani R., *, Tal S., Derakshan N., Cohen N., Enock P. M., McNally R. J., Mor N., Daches S., Williams A. D., Yiend J., Carlbring P., Kuckertz J. M., Yang Wenhui, Reinecke A., Beevers C. G., Bunnell B. E., Koster E. H.W., Zilcha-Mano S., Okon-Singer H., 2021
- Factor Structure and Criterion Validity across the Full Scale and Ten Short Forms of the CES-D among Chinese Adolescents, Wenhui Yang*, Ge Xiong, Luis E. Garrido, John X. Zhang, Meng-Cheng Wang, & Chong Wang, 2018
- Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Adolescents with Major Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Wenhui Yang*, John X. Zhang, Zhirui Ding, & Lihui Xiao, 2016
- Electrocortical reactivity during self-referential processing in female youth with borderline personality disorder, Auerbach, R. P. *, Tarlow, N., Bondy, E., Stewart, J. G., Aguirre, B., Kaplan, C., Yang, W., & Pizzagalli, D. A., 2016
- Attention Bias Modification Training in Individuals with Depressive Symptoms: A Randomized controlled trial, Wenhui Yang*, Zhirui Ding, Ting Dai, Fang Peng, John X. Zhang, 2015
- Time course of affective processing bias in major depression: An ERP study, Wenhui Yang, Xiongzhao Zhu, Xiang Wang, Daxing Wu, Shuqiao Yao*, 2011
- Preattentive processing abnormalities in chronic pain: neurophysiological evidence from mismatch negativity, Shuqiao Yao*, Xianhua Liu, Wenhui Yang, Xiang Wang, 2011
Awards
- Hunan Province Excellent Master's Thesis (2022): Attention Control Scale Chinese Version Factor Structure and Empirical Effects
