2. Personal profile

Education

09/2007~07/2012 Ph.D., School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University

09/2003~07/2006 M.S., Clinical Psychology, School of Health Humanities, Peking University

09/1998~07/2003 Bachelor, Clinical Medicine, Peking University

Academic & Professional Positions

09/2018~now Assistant Professor, Peking University School of Nursing

10/2015~08/2018 Post-doctor, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University

04/2015~09/2015 Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University

10/2012~04/2015 Post-doctor, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University

08/2006~07/2007 Resident physician, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University

Courses

Teaching in Degree Programs (M.S, M.A., and Ph.D.)

I enjoy creating new curricula and have created the following courses:

• Cognitive Training and Brain Plasticity (Undergraduate students)

• Sleep and Health (Undergraduate students)

• Exploration of Emotions and Affection - Perspective of Brain Science (Undergraduate students)

• Comprehensive Evaluation and Practice of Function (II) (Postgraduate students, 27 class hours)

Participate in teaching of other courses:

• Elderly Nursing (Undergraduate; compulsory course)

• Advanced Practice and Research Progress in Elderly Nursing (Postgraduate, limited course)

3. Research Areas

Mental Health Rehabilitation; Cognitive Training; Endophenotypes of Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Cognitive aging; Sleep and Somatic Symptom Disorders

Selected projects

1. The National Natural Science Foundation of China General Project (No. 3227113)

Chao Wu (PI), “Intervention Effect of the Source-Monitoring-Theory Based Auditory Speech Perception Training on Positive Symptoms in Patients with Schizophrenia and the Neural Mechanism”

01/2023 – 12/2026; Role: Principal Investigator)

2. The General Program of the National Social Science Foundation (No. 21BGL229)

Chao Wu (PI), “Research on Cognitive Health Promotion Technology in the Process of Aging”

09/2021 – 09/2024; Role: Principal Investigator)

3. The General program of the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 7202086)

Chao Wu (PI): “The Migration Effect and Neural Mechanism of Emotional Speech Rhythm Training under Auditory Masking on Cognitive Function of Schizophrenia”

01/2020 – 12/2022; Role: Principal Investigator).

4. National Key Research and Development Plan (No. 2020YFC2008803)

Xuefeng Wang (PI): “Research on Panoramic Home Care Technology and Emergency Management Technology Based on AI Technology”

01/2020 – 12/2023; Role: Subproject Principal Investigator)

Selected publication

1. Gong B, Li N, Li Q, Yan X, Chen J, Li L, Wu X, Wu C (2022). The mandarin Chinese auditory emotions stimulus database: a validated set of Chinese pseudo-sentences. Behavior Research Methods. Online ahead of print.

2. Li Q, Zhao Y, Gong B, Li Ru, Wang Y, Yan X, Wu C (2022). Visual affective stimulus database: a validated set of short videos. Behavioral Sciences (Basel), 12 (5).

3. Li Q, Wu C (2022). Social interaction, lifestyle, and depressive status: mediators in the longitudinal relationship between cognitive function and instrumental activities of daily living disability among older adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 4235.

4. Wu C (2022). Bidirectional association between depression and hearing loss: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 2022;41(4):971-981.

5. Wu H, Zheng Y, Zhan Q, Dong J, Peng H, Zhai J, Zhao J, She S, Wu C (2021). Covariation between spontaneous neural activity in the insula and affective temperaments is related to sleep disturbance in individuals with major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine, 51(5):731-740.

6. Gong B, Li Q, Zhao Y, Wu C (2021). Auditory emotion recognition deficits in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 65, 102820.

7. Wu C, Zhen Z, Huang L, Huang T, Liu J (2020). COMT-Polymorphisms modulated functional profile of the fusiform face area contributes to face-specific recognition ability. Scientific Reports,10(1):2134.

8. Wu C, Ding Y, Chen B, Gao Y, Wang Q, Wu Z, Lu L, Luo L, Zhang C, Bao X, Yang, P, Fan L, Lei M, Li L*. (2019). Both val158met polymorphism of catechol-o-methyltransferase gene and menstrual cycle affect prepulse inhibition but not attentional modulation of prepulse inhibition in younger-adult females. Neuroscience, 404:396-406

9. Wu C, Zheng Y, Li J, She S, Peng H, Li L (2018). Cortical gray matter loss, augmented vulnerability to speech-on-speech masking, and delusion in people with schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9:287

10. Wu C, Cao S, Zhou F, Wang C, Wu X, Li L (2012). Masking of speech in people with first-episode schizophrenia and people with chronic schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 134:33-41.

Membership

Council Member, China Association for the Development of Disabled Persons

Committee Member, China Professional Committee for the Care of the Disabled

Committee Member, the Institute of Elderly Intelligent Health Care of Peking University