Areas of Focus
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Biological Psychiatry
- Psychopharmacology
Work Experience
- 2019-11 to Present - Wenzhou Medical University - Professor
- 2011-09 to 2019-10 - Shantou University Medical College - Distinguished Professor
- 2017-10 to 2018-08 - Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology - Academic Director and Acting Vice President
- 2006-09 to 2011-08 - Southern Illinois University Carbondale - Assistant Professor
- 2003-01 to 2006-08 - University of Saskatchewan - Senior Research Associate
- 2000-03 to 2002-12 - University of Saskatchewan - Post-doctoral Research Fellow
- 1996-09 to 2000-02 - Medical College of Wisconsin - Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1993-1996 Doctoral Student: Peking Union Medical College
- Participated in Zhejiang Provincial Key R&D Program (2020.11-2023.10)
- Hosted National Natural Science Foundation Project (2020.01-2023.12)
- Participated in National Natural Science Foundation (Youth) Project (2018.01-2020.12)
- Hosted Li Ka Shing Foundation, China-Israel International Cooperation Project (2017.07-2020.06)
- Hosted Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Plan (2017.01-2019.12)
- Participated in Shantou City Medical and Health Science and Technology Plan (2020.01-2022.12)
Publications
- Maternal separation with early weaning impairs neuron‑glia integrity: non‑invasive evaluation and substructure demonstration, Zeng H, Zhang X, Wang W, Shen Z, Dai Z, Yu Z, Xu S, Yan G, Huang Q, Wu R, Chen X, Xu H, 2020
- COVID-19 infection outbreak increases anxiety level of general public in China: involved mechanisms and influencing factors, Zhao H, He X, Fan G, Li L, Huang Q, Qiu Q, Kang Z, Du T, Han L, Ding L, Xu H, 2020
- Adenosine promotes the recovery of mice from the cuprizone-induced behavioral and morphological changes while effecting on microglia and inflammatory cytokines in the brain, Zhang J, Yang L, Fang Z, Kong J, Huang Q, Xu H, 2018
- N-acetyl cysteine attenuates the cuprizone-induced behavioral changes and oligodendrocyte loss in maleC57BL/7 mice via its anti-inflammation actions, Zhang L, Xu S, Huang Q, Xu H, 2018
- Differential neurometabolite alterations in brains of medication-free individuals with bipolar disorder and those with unipolar depression: a two-dimensional proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study, Li H, Xu H, Zhang Y, Guan J, Zhang J, Xu C, Shen Z, Xiao B, Liang C, Chen K, Zhang J, Wu R, 2016