I completed my master’s training in Neurology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and was subsequently awarded a full UIPA scholarship to pursue doctoral training at UNSW Sydney, where I spent three years at Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA). My doctoral research focused on examining cerebral vascular burden using advanced neuroimaging techniques. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Black Dog Institute, with a research focus on mood disorders.
My research adopts an interdisciplinary framework that combines psychiatric theory, neuroscience, advanced neuroimaging, and artificial intelligence–driven analytics to investigate neuropsychiatric disorders.
Du J; Pan Y; Jiang J; Lam BCP; Thalamuthu A; Chen R; Tsang IW; Sachdev PS; Wen W, 2025, 'White matter brain age as a biomarker of cerebrovascular burden in the ageing brain', European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 275, pp. 2203 - 2213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00406-024-01758-3
Journal articles | 2025
Du J; Wang J; Zhang L; Liu M; Nie Y; Zhang W; He Y; Wu Q; Liu Y; Ai S; Feng H; Ning Y; Liang YY; Zhang J, 2025, 'Association of accelerometer-measured step count and intensity with mental health: A prospective cohort study.', J Affect Disord, 398, pp. 120980, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.120980
Journal articles | 2025
Huang SY; Ge YJ; Ren P; Wu BS; Gong W; Du J; Chen SD; Kang JJ; Ma Q; Bokde ALW; Desrivières S; Garavan H; Grigis A; Lemaitre H; Smolka MN; Hohmann S; Feng JF; Zhang YR; Cheng W; Yu JT, 2025, 'Genome-wide association study unravels mechanisms of brain glymphatic activity', Nature Communications, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55706-9
Journal articles | 2024
Du J; Pan Y; Jiang J; Liu Y; Lam BCP; Schutte AE; Tsang IW; Sachdev PS; Wen W, 2024, 'Association of Blood Pressure With Brain Ages: A Cohort Study of Gray and White Matter Aging Discrepancy in Mid-to-Older Adults From UK Biobank', Hypertension, 81, pp. 906 - 916, http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.123.22176
Journal articles | 2024
Huang SY; Zhang YR; Guo Y; Du J; Ren P; Wu BS; Feng JF; Cheng W; Yu JT, 2024, 'Glymphatic system dysfunction predicts amyloid deposition, neurodegeneration, and clinical progression in Alzheimer's disease', Alzheimer S and Dementia, 20, pp. 3251 - 3269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.13789
Journal articles | 2024
Lin K; Wen W; Lipnicki DM; Mewton L; Chen R; Du J; Wang D; Skoog I; Sterner TR; Najar J; Kim KW; Han JW; Kim JS; Ng TP; Ho R; Chua DQL; Anstey KJ; Cherbuin N; Mortby ME; Brodaty H; Kochan N; Sachdev PS; Jiang J, 2024, 'Risk factors and cognitive correlates of white matter hyperintensities in ethnically diverse populations without dementia: The COSMIC consortium', Alzheimer S and Dementia Diagnosis Assessment and Disease Monitoring, 16, pp. e12567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dad2.12567
Journal articles | 2024
Liu Y; Feng H; Du J; Yang L; Xue H; Zhang J; Liang YY; Liu Y, 2024, 'Associations between accelerometer-measured circadian rest-activity rhythm, brain structural and genetic mechanisms, and dementia.', Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 78, pp. 393 - 404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13671
Journal articles | 2021
Du J; Koch FC; Xia A; Jiang J; Crawford JD; Lam BCP; Thalamuthu A; Lee T; Kochan N; Fawns-Ritchie C; Brodaty H; Xu Q; Sachdev PS; Wen W, 2021, 'Difference in distribution functions: A new diffusion weighted imaging metric for estimating white matter integrity', Neuroimage, 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118381
Journal articles | 2021
Du J; Zhu H; Yu L; Lu P; Qiu Y; Zhou Y; Cao W; Lu D; Zhao W; Yang J; Sun J; Xu Q, 2021, 'Multi-Dimensional Diffusion Tensor Imaging Biomarkers for Cognitive Decline From the Preclinical Stage: A Study of Post-stroke Small Vessel Disease', Frontiers in Neurology, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.687959
Journal articles | 2020
Du J; Zhu H; Zhou J; Lu P; Qiu Y; Yu L; Cao W; Zhi N; Yang J; Xu Q; Sun J; Zhou Y, 2020, 'Structural Brain Network Disruption at Preclinical Stage of Cognitive Impairment Due to Cerebral Small Vessel Disease', Neuroscience, 449, pp. 99 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.08.037
Journal articles | 2019
Du J; Wang Y; Zhi N; Geng J; Cao W; Yu L; Mi J; Zhou Y; Xu Q; Wen W; Sachdev P, 2019, 'Structural brain network measures are superior to vascular burden scores in predicting early cognitive impairment in post stroke patients with small vessel disease', Neuroimage Clinical, 22, pp. 101712, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101712
Journal articles | 2019
Du J; Xu Q, 2019, 'Neuroimaging studies on cognitive impairment due to cerebral small vessel disease.', Stroke Vasc Neurol, 4, pp. 99 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/svn-2018-000209
Journal articles | 2019
Wang Y; Tu D; Du J; Han X; Sun Y; Xu Q; Zhai G; Zhou Y, 2019, 'Classification of Subcortical Vascular Cognitive Impairment Using Single MRI Sequence and Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Networks.', Front Neurosci, 13, pp. 627, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00627
Journal articles | 2019
Wu X; Ge X; Du J; Wang Y; Sun Y; Han X; Ding W; Cao M; Xu Q; Zhou Y, 2019, 'Characterizing the Penumbras of White Matter Hyperintensities and Their Associations With Cognitive Function in Patients With Subcortical Vascular Mild Cognitive Impairment.', Front Neurol, 10, pp. 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2019.00348
