Psychiatry · Neuroimaging · Neuromodulation

Academic profile · Shanghai

Zeying Tao

Master of Medicine candidate in Psychiatry

Shanghai Mental Health Center · Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

I study brain-circuit mechanisms and individual heterogeneity in psychiatric disorders, with a focus on psychosis risk, multimodal MRI, hippocampal circuits, and image-guided neurostimulation.

Psychosis spectrumMultimodal MRIHippocampal circuitsPrecision neuromodulation
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Research atlas From phenotype to circuit
current focus
Framework Phenotype → Circuit → Target
MRI
Multimodalstructural · resting · task
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Clinicalpsychiatry & cognition
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InterventionTMS · TUS · TIS
3active research projects
5selected scholarly works
2024–26research training trajectory
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01 · Research

Questions I work on.

Connecting clinically meaningful phenotypes with circuit-level measurements and individualized intervention.

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Disease mechanisms

Psychosis spectrum

Cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, including clinical high-risk states, psychosis conversion, symptom heterogeneity, and cognitive dysfunction.

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Measurement

Multimodal neuroimaging

Structural, resting-state, and task-based MRI to investigate affective and cognitive mechanisms, with emphasis on hippocampal circuits, large-scale networks, and brain–behavior relationships.

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Intervention

Precision neurotherapeutics

Computationally informed and mechanism-based approaches to psychiatric heterogeneity, including interpretable modeling and image-guided neuromodulation for cognitive and clinical outcomes.

02 · Scholarship

Selected publications.

Published work, conference research, and manuscripts currently under review. * Co-first authors.

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Published2026

Tao Z, Wang S, et al. Research progress on morphological abnormalities of brain sulci in mental illnesses.

Chinese Journal of Psychiatry

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OHBM 2026Poster 1848

Song J, Tao Z, et al. Gradient-Based Machine Learning Reveals Biomarkers of Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia [Abstract].

OHBM 2026 Annual Meeting Abstract Book · 4507–4509

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Manuscripts under review
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Under review2026

Tao Z*, Song J*, Wang S*, et al. Whole-Brain Sulcal Morphology Identifies Psychosis Conversion Among Clinical High-Risk Individuals.

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Under review2026

Song J*, Tao Z*, Chen X, Xu Y. Hallucination Severity Is Associated With Interface-versus-External Expression Along a Normative Structural Hierarchy.

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Under review2026

Zhu T*, Song J*, Kong G*, Tao Z, et al. Imaging-transcriptomic decoding of altered cingulate functional gradients in major depressive disorder.

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03 · Experience

Research in progress.

Current projects at Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

SMHC

Research home

Shanghai Mental Health Center

Master Student · Supervisor: Prof. Yingying Tang
2024 — now
01Oct. 2024 — Present
Co-ledStructural MRIMachine learning

Neuroimaging-Based Prediction of Psychosis Conversion in Clinical High-Risk Individuals

Cortical sulcal morphology · Clinical high-risk states

  • Performed fine-grained cortical sulcal segmentation using BrainVISA and extracted morphometric features including sulcal depth, length, and geometric properties.
  • Applied machine-learning and statistical analyses to identify sulcal features associated with subsequent conversion to psychosis.
02Nov. 2025 — Present
LedtFUSTask fMRI

Left Posterior Hippocampus-Targeted tFUS for Visuospatial Memory Modulation in Major Depressive Disorder

Pilot intervention study · Image-guided neuromodulation

  • Designed and implemented a pilot tFUS intervention targeting the left posterior hippocampus to investigate visuospatial memory and depressive symptoms.
  • Conducted image-guided target localization and TUS administration with hands-on individualized neuromodulation procedures.
  • Performed task-fMRI preprocessing and first- and group-level modeling in SPM to characterize intervention-related neural changes.
03Dec. 2025 — Present
Ongoing analysisMSTMultimodal MRI

Multimodal MRI Investigation of Symptom-Related Brain Mechanisms in First-Episode Schizophrenia

Hippocampal subregions · Pattern separation · Whole-brain networks

  • Analyze Mnemonic Similarity Task fMRI to examine hippocampal-subregion activity related to pattern separation.
  • Analyze structural and resting-state MRI to characterize disease-related brain alterations.
  • Explore hippocampal circuit and whole-brain network measures linking subregion activity to broader cortical organization.

04 · Background

Training & toolkit.

Clinical training in medicine and psychiatry, paired with neuroimaging and neuromodulation methods.

Education02 institutions
2024 — 2027

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai Mental Health Center

Master of Medicine (M.Med.) in Psychiatry

GPA 3.73 / 4
2019 — 2024

Nanchang University

Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) in Clinical Medicine

GPA 3.69 / 4 · Top 5%

Contact

Interested in the same questions?

I’m always glad to connect around psychiatry, neuroimaging, brain circuits, and precision neuromodulation.

t_aotseying@sjtu.edu.cn ↗ORCID 0000-0001-9602-5226 ↗
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