Psychotherapist, Researcher, Doctoral Supervisor, Director of the Developmental Brain Science Laboratory. Her main work focuses on the assessment and psychological-behavioral intervention of sleep problems, neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health issues in children and adolescents. She completed a joint doctoral training program in clinical psychology and pediatric sleep medicine. She holds qualifications as a National Level 2 Psychological Counselor, a licensed psychotherapist in the health sector, and is certified to administer ADOS-2, the "gold standard" assessment tool for autism. She has received systematic professional training both domestically and internationally, boasting extensive clinical experience, an international vision and cross-cultural service capabilities.
Main research directions: She has long been engaged in basic-to-clinical translational research on pediatric sleep, mental health and developmental brain mechanisms. Leveraging technologies including eye-tracking, near-infrared spectroscopy, electroencephalography, and rapid integrated structural-functional-neurometabolic magnetic resonance imaging, her research explores how sleep-centered lifestyles and family rearing environments affect children’s social-emotional development, autism spectrum conditions and mental health problems. She aims to uncover developmental brain mechanisms, identify neural biomarkers, and develop strategies for early prevention and precise intervention.
She has presided over multiple national and provincial research projects, and undertakes research tasks for major projects under the national and Shanghai "Brain Projects". She has published research findings in prestigious journals such as Lancet, JAMA Network Open, Sleep and Autism Research.
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