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Yan Sun
Basic Medical Sciences
Peking University
Beijing
Language: Chinese, English
Addiction
Mental Disorders
Genetics
Environmental Interactions
Cohort Studies
Behavioral Addiction
Internet Addiction
Gaming Addiction
Brain Mechanisms
Biomarkers
Areas of Focus
- Addiction and related mental disorders: genetic and environmental interaction mechanisms and cohort studies
- Behavioral addiction (internet addiction, gaming addiction): pathogenesis and intervention methods
- Brain mechanisms of sleep and emotional disorders and closed-loop control interventions
- Integration of biomarkers related to adolescent mental health
Work Experience
- Director of the Youth Committee of the Professional Committee on Drug Dependence, Chinese Society of Toxicology
- Expert Member of the Dual Heart Rehabilitation Professional Committee, Beijing Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Education Society
Academic Background & Achievements
- Visiting Scholar at King's College London
- Selected for the China Association for Science and Technology Youth Talent Lift Project
Publications
- Associations of DNA methylation with behavioral problems, grey matter volumes and negative life events across adolescence: Evidence from the longitudinal IMAGEN study, Sun Y, et al., 2022
- Common and distinguishing genetic factors for substance use behavior and disorder: an integrated analysis of genomic and transcriptomic studies from both human and animal studies, Sun Y, et al., 2022
- Genome-wide association meta-analyses identify novel genetic risk loci and polygenic phenotype associations for heroin, methamphetamine, and alcohol dependences, Sun Y, et al., 2022
- Global Prevalence of Digital Addiction in General Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Sun Y, et al., 2022
- Identification of novel risk loci with shared effects on alcoholism, heroin and methamphetamine dependence, Sun Y, et al., 2021
- Internet Addiction Increases in the General Population During COVID‐19: Evidence From China, Sun Y, et al., 2021
- Increased addictive Internet and substance use behaviour during the COVID19 pandemic in China, Sun Y, et al., 2020
- Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence in male Han Chinese and cross-ethnic polygenic risk score comparison, Sun Y, et al., 2019
- Risk factors and an early prediction model for persistent methamphetamine-related psychiatric symptoms, Sun Y, et al., 2019
- GABRA2 rs279858-linked variants are associated with disrupted structural connectome of reward circuits in heroin abusers, Sun Y, et al., 2018
- A review of risk factors for methamphetamine-related psychiatric symptoms, Sun Y, et al., 2018
