YUE CHEN, PHD
- Harvard title(s): Assistant Professor of Psychology
- McLean title(s): Associate Psychologist
- Email: ychen@mclean.harvard.edu
- Telephone: (617) 855-3615
- Fax: (617) 855-3611
- Degree(s): B.S., M.S., Ph.D.
- Bio: Yue Chen's research interest is in understanding the mechanisms underlying core dysfunctions in major psychiatric disorders. Using the visual system as a model, he has been studying perceptual and cognitive processes intrinsic to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism and aging. Through innovative applications of psychophysical and neuroimaging approaches, Yue Chen and his lab have identified specific brain mechanisms that link to certain vision-related traits and states of schizophrenia. The research findings add to the knowledge required for developinsg neurobiologically meaningful assessments and interventions for the psychiatric disorder.
- Publications:
- Chen Y, Bedell HE, Frishman LJ. Temporal contrast discrimination and its neural correlates Perception 1996;25:505-522.
- Chen Y, Bedell HE, Frishman LJ, Levi DM. Stimulus uncertainty affects velocity discrimination. Vision Research 1998;38:1265-1272.
- Chen Y, Palafox G, Nakayama K, Levy DL, Matthysse S & Holzman PS. Motion perception in schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry 1999;56:149-154.
- Chen Y, Nakayama K, Levy DL, Matthysse S & Holzman PS. Psychological isolation of motion processing deficit in schizophrenic patients and their relatives and its association with smooth pursuit dysfunction Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1999; 96:4724-4729.
- Chen Y, Nakayama K, Levy DL, Matthysse S & Holzman PS. Processing of global, but not local, motion direction is deficient in schizophrenia Schizophrenia Research 2003; 61:215-227.
- Chen Y, Levy DL, Nakayama K, Matthysse S, Sheremata S & Holzman PS. Effects of typical, atypical and no antipsychotic drugs on contrast detection of schizophrenia American Journal of Psychiatry 2003;160 :1709-1801.
- Chen Y, Norton, D, Ongur D & Heckers, S. Inefficient face detection in schizophrenia Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008; 34:367-74.
- Chen Y, Norton, D & Ongur D. Altered center-surround motion inhibition in schizophrenia Biological Psychiatry 2008; 64: 74-7.
- Chen Y, Grossman E, Bidwell LC, Yurgelun-Todd, D, Gruber S, Levy DL, Nakayama K & Holzman PS. Differential patterns of occipital and prefrontal cortical activations during motion processing: evidence from normal and schizophrenic brains Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 2008; 8:293-303.
