Weijian Liu
Tel.
Position
Postdoc
Research Interests
7T MRI, neuroimaging, movement disorder, antidepressant, major depressive disorders
Research Groups
Developmental Psychiatry group
Movement Disorder group
VIA project
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2025
PhD in Psychiatry, Peking University
2020
Master in Psychiatry, Southern Medical University
2014
Bachelor in Clinical Medicine, Guangdong Medical University
Employments
2025 - Present
Postdoc at DRCMR
2022 - 2024
Visiting PhD in Neuroscience at Amsterdam University Medical Center
2017 - 2020
Fellow in Clinical Medicine at the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
2014 - 2017
Psychiatrist at the Civil Affairs Bureau Mental Hospital
Publications
W. Liu, J. Heij, S. Liu, L. Liebrand, M. Caan, W. van der Zwaag, D. J. Veltman, L. Lu, M. Aghajani, G. van Wingen, Structural connectivity of thalamic subnuclei in major depressive disorder: An ultra-high resolution diffusion MRI study at 7-Tesla. J. Affect. Disord. 370, 412–426 (2025).
Y. Han, Y. Gao, S. Wang, X. Lin, P. Li, W. Liu, L. Lu, C. Wang, Cortical folding in distinguishing first-episode bipolar and unipolar depression. J. Affect. Disord. 369, 897–905 (2025).
W. Liu, J. Heij, S. Liu, L. Liebrand, M. Caan, W. van der Zwaag, D. J. Veltman, L. Lu, M. Aghajani, G. van Wingen, Structural connectivity of dopaminergic pathways in major depressive disorder: An ultra-high resolution 7-Tesla diffusion MRI study. Eur. Neuropsychopharmacol. 89, 58–70 (2024).
W. Liu, J. Heij, S. Liu, L. Liebrand, M. Caan, W. van der Zwaag, D. J. Veltman, L. Lu, M. Aghajani, G. van Wingen, Hippocampal, thalamic, and amygdala subfield morphology in major depressive disorder: an ultra-high resolution MRI study at 7-Tesla. Eur. Arch. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci., doi: 10.1007/s00406-024-01874-0 (2024).
W. Liu*, H. Li*, X. Lin*, P. Li, X. Zhu, S. Su, J. Shi, L. Lu, J. Deng, X. Sun, Blunted superior temporal gyrus activity to negative emotional expression after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for late-life depression. Front. Aging Neurosci. 14, 1001447 (2022).