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I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and a member of the Center for Consciousness Science at the University of Michigan Medical School. I have a multidisciplinary background including psychology, biology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging. I study the mechanistic role of large-scale brain networks in conscious cognition and its alteration by pharmacologic, neuropathologic and psychiatric manipulations using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
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Postdoctoral Research FellowUniversity of Michigan Medical School, Department of Anesthesiology, 2018
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Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Ottawa, Institute of Mental Health Research, 2016
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PhDInstitute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 2012
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BSDepartment of Biology, China Agriculture University, Beijing, 2007
The neural substrates of consciousness, e.g., the boundaries between conscious and non-conscious processing.
Neural signatures in human subjects during awake, anesthesia, vegetative state, and mental/cognitive disorders.
Spatiotemporal configurations and alterations of large-scale brain dynamics.
Perceptual awareness.
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Jang H, Mashour GA, Hudetz AG, Huang Z. 2024 Apr 15;PreprintMeasuring the dynamic balance of integration and segregation underlying consciousness, anesthesia, and sleep.
DOI:10.1101/2024.04.12.589265 PMID: 38659759 -
Huang Z, Mashour GA, Hudetz AG. 2024 Jan 24;PreprintPropofol Disrupts the Functional Core-Matrix Architecture of the Thalamus in Humans.
DOI:10.1101/2024.01.23.576934 PMID: 38328136 -
Han J, Xie Q, Wu X, Huang Z, Tanabe S, Fogel S, Hudetz AG, Wu H, Northoff G, Mao Y, He S, Qin P. Cell Rep, 2024 Jan 23; 43 (1): 113633Journal ArticleThe neural correlates of arousal: Ventral posterolateral nucleus-global transient co-activation.
DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113633 PMID: 38159279 -
Zilio F, Gomez-Pilar J, Chaudhary U, Fogel S, Fomina T, Synofzik M, Schöls L, Cao S, Zhang J, Huang Z, Birbaumer N, Northoff G. Commun Biol, 2023 Jul 20; 6 (1): 757Journal ArticleAltered brain dynamics index levels of arousal in complete locked-in syndrome.
DOI:10.1038/s42003-023-05109-1 PMID: 37474587 -
Huang Z, Mashour GA, Hudetz AG. Nat Commun, 2023 Jan 5; 14 (1): 72Journal ArticleFunctional geometry of the cortex encodes dimensions of consciousness.
DOI:10.1038/s41467-022-35764-7 PMID: 36604428 -
Dai R, Huang Z, Larkin TE, Tarnal V, Picton P, Vlisides PE, Janke E, McKinney A, Hudetz AG, Harris RE, Mashour GA. Commun Biol, 2023 Dec 19; 6 (1): 1284Journal ArticlePsychedelic concentrations of nitrous oxide reduce functional differentiation in frontoparietal and somatomotor cortical networks.
DOI:10.1038/s42003-023-05678-1 PMID: 38114805 -
Klar P, Çatal Y, Langner R, Huang Z, Northoff G. Commun Biol, 2023 May 9; 6 (1): 499Journal ArticleScale-free dynamics in the core-periphery topography and task alignment decline from conscious to unconscious states.
DOI:10.1038/s42003-023-04879-y PMID: 37161021 -
Huang Z. Entropy (Basel), 2023 Jul 17; 25 (7):Journal ArticleTemporospatial Nestedness in Consciousness: An Updated Perspective on the Temporospatial Theory of Consciousness.
DOI:10.3390/e25071074 PMID: 37510023