Jialin Li

Doctoral Candidate

Research interests: • social neuroscience of empathy, emotion, learning & decision making • Placebo/nocebo effects • appetitive/aversive learning • computational psychiatry • expectation & learning impacts on treatment • translational research on individual prediction of psychiatric disorders

Academic education

since 2021 Doctoral Candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany
Lab rotations in the orientation year: Peter Dayan, Christian Büchel and Ulrike Bingel

2016–2019 Master of Arts (Applied Psychology), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

2012–2016 Bachelor of Science (Applied Psychology), Southwest Minzu University, China

Awards

2019 Excellent Master Thesis, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

2016 Excellent Graduation Thesis, Southwest Minzu University

2015 Outstanding University Graduates, Southwest Minzu University

2015 Excellent Paper, Faculty of Psychology, South China Normal University

2014 Excellent Paper, Psychological Association Annual Meeting of Sichuan, China

Publications

*co-first author

Gan, X., Zhou, X., Li, J., Jiao, G., Jiang, X., Biswal, B., ..., & Becker, B. (2022). Common and distinct neurofunctional representations of core and social disgust in the brain: Coordinate-based and network meta-analyses. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 135:104553. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104553

Liu, X., Zhou, X., Zeng, Y., Li, J., Zhao, W., Xu, L., ..., & Becker, B. (2022). Medial prefrontal and occipito-temporal activity at encoding determines enhanced recognition of threatening faces after 1.5 years. Brain Structure and Function, 227(5), 1655–1672.

Xu, L., Zheng, X., Yao, S., Li, J., Fu, M., Li, K., ..., & Kendrick, K. M. (2022). The mirror neuron system compensates for amygdala dysfunction-associated social deficits in individuals with higher autistic traits. NeuroImage, 251, 119010. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119010

Liu, C., Xu, L., Li, J., Zhou, F., Yang, X., Zheng, X., ..., & Becker, B. (2021). Serotonin and early life stress interact to shape brain architecture and anxious avoidant behavior – A TPH2 imaging genetics approach. Psychological Medicine, 51(14), 2476–2484.

Li, J., Yang, X., Zhou, F., Liu, C., Wei, Z., Xin, F., …, & Becker, B. (2020). Modafinil enhances cognitive, but not emotional conflict processing via enhanced inferior frontal gyrus activation and its communication with the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45(6), 1026–1033.

Xu, X., Dai, J., Liu, C., Chen, Y., Xin, F., Zhou, F., ..., & Li, J. (2020). Common and disorder-specific neurofunctional markers of dysregulated empathic reactivity in major depression and generalized anxiety disorder. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 89, 114–116.

Zhao, W., Luo, R., Sindermann, C., Li, J., Wei, Z., Zhang, Y., ..., & Kendrick, K. M. (2020). Oxytocin modulation of self-referential processing is partly replicable and sensitive to oxytocin receptor genotype. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 96:109734. doi:10.1016/j.pnpbp.2019.109734

Zhou, F., Li, J., Zhao, W., Xu, L., Zheng, X., Fu, M., ..., & Becker, B. (2020). Empathic pain evoked by sensory and emotional-communicative cues share common and process-specific neural representation. eLife, 9:e56929. doi:10.7554/eLife.56929

Li, J., Xu, L., Zheng, X., Fu, M., Zhou, F., Xu, X., …, & Becker, B. (2019). Common and dissociable contributions of alexithymia and autism to domain-specific interoceptive dysregulations – A dimensional neuroimaging approach. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 88(3), 187–189.

Xu, X.*, Li, J.*, Chen Z., Kendrick, K. M., & Becker, B. (2019). Oxytocin reduces top-down control of attention by increasing bottom-up attention allocation to social but not non-social stimuli – A randomized controlled trial. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 108, 62–69.

Zheng, X., Luo, L., Li, J., Xu, L., Zhou, F., Gao, Z., ..., & Kendrick, K. M. (2019). A dimensional approach to jealousy reveals enhanced fronto-striatal, insula and limbic responses to angry faces. Brain Structure and Function, 224(9), 3201–3212.

Zhou, F., Geng, Y., Xin, F., Li, J., Feng, P., Liu, C., ..., & Becker, B. (2019). Human extinction learning is accelerated by an angiotensin antagonist via ventromedial prefrontal cortex and its connections with basolateral amygdala. Biological Psychiatry, 86(12), 910–920.

Montag, C., Zhao, Z., Sindermann, C., Xu, L., Fu, M., Li, J., ..., & Becker, B. (2018). Internet communication disorder and the structure of the human brain: Initial insights on WeChat addiction. Scientific Reports, 8:2155. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19904-y

Poster presentations

2019 Poster, Progress in Social and Affective Neuroscience, Chengdu, China

2018 Poster, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Singapore