Li Tao (psychiatrist)

Li Tao (Chinese: 李涛) is a Chinese academic psychiatrist. She is the dean of the Mental Health Center affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine. She is a clinician, professor, and researcher, specialising in topics relating to molecular genetics and mental illness.

For other people named Li Tao, see Li Tao (disambiguation).
Li Tao
Born (1965-03-04) March 4, 1965
NationalityChinese
EducationKing's College London (PhD)
West China University of Medical Sciences (MB, MD)
Known forSchizophrenia
Molecular genetics
SpouseHu Xun
AwardsChangjiang Scholar (2008)
Scientific career
FieldsPsychiatry
Schizophrenia
InstitutionsInstitute of Psychiatry
West China Medical Center
Zhejiang University
Doctoral advisorsDavid Collier
Liu Xiehe
In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.

Biography

As a student, Li worked at the National Center for Gene Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.[1]

From 2008 to 2020, Li was a professor and researcher at West China (Huaxi) Hospital, Sichuan University.[2] She was the leader of the research team there and was on the staff at the Hospital between 1997, when she started as a postdoctoral research worker, and 2020.[3] Li has also taught molecular genetics at Tibet University Medical Science School.[4] As director of the Mental Health Center at West China Hospital, in 2012, she led a collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Medical School in studying tobacco addiction.[5]

Li's work focuses on the genetics of mental illness, especially relating to hereditary schizophrenia.[4] Her work has helped encourage further research into molecular genetics in Western China.[4] She also studies topics relating to Tibet and psychology of the people living there.[6] Her research and contributions have been published in Biological Psychiatry,[7] PLoS,[8] the American Journal of Medical Genetics,[9] The American Journal of Psychiatry,[10] Nature,[11] The British Journal of Psychiatry,[12] and Psychiatry Research.[13]

References
  1. "Teams & Members". National Center for Gene Research, CAS. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  2. Lin, Lin (18 February 2011). "Li Tao". The Seventh China Young Female Scientists Award. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  3. "Psychiatric Laboratory". Psychiatric Laboratory. West China Hospital, SCU. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  4. Tingting, Zhang (3 December 2005). "Five Chinese Women Scientists Awarded". China.org. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  5. "China Connection Featured Initiatives". Department of Psychiatry. University of Massachusetts Medical School. 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  6. Tao, Li (2007-01-01). "A Study of the Tibetan Rural Urbanisation Model". China Report. 43 (1): 31–42. doi:10.1177/000944550604300102. ISSN 0009-4455. S2CID 153644110.
  7. Li, Tao; Li, Zhiqiang; Chen, Peng; Zhao, Qian; Wang, Ti; Huang, Ke; Li, JunYan; Li, You; Liu, Jie (October 2010). "Common Variants in Major Histocompatibility Complex Region and TCF4 Gene Are Significantly Associated with Schizophrenia in Han Chinese". Biological Psychiatry. 68 (7): 671–673. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.06.014. PMID 20673877. S2CID 30843074.
  8. Shifman, Sagiv; Johannesson, Martina; Bronstein, Michal; Chen, Sam X; Collier, David A; Craddock, Nicholas J; Kendler, Kenneth S; Li, Tao; O'Donovan, Michael (2008-02-15). "Genome-Wide Association Identifies a Common Variant in the Reelin Gene That Increases the Risk of Schizophrenia Only in Women". PLOS Genet. 4 (2): e28. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0040028. PMC 2242812. PMID 18282107.
  9. Gill, Michael; Vallada, Homero; Collier, David; Sham, Pak; Holmans, Peter; Murray, Robin; McGuffin, Peter; Nanko, Shin; Owen, Mike (1996-02-16). "A combined analysis of D22S278 marker alleles in affected sib-pairs: Support for a susceptibility locus for schizophrenia at chromosome 22q12". American Journal of Medical Genetics. 67 (1): 40–45. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960216)67:1<40::AID-AJMG6>3.0.CO;2-W. ISSN 1096-8628. PMID 8678112.
  10. Lui, Su; Deng, Wei; Huang, Xiaoqi; Jiang, Lijun; Ma, Xiaohong; Chen, Huafu; Zhang, Tijiang; Li, Xiuli; Li, Dongming (2009-02-01). "Association of Cerebral Deficits With Clinical Symptoms in Antipsychotic-Naive First-Episode Schizophrenia: An Optimized Voxel-Based Morphometry and Resting State Functional Connectivity Study". American Journal of Psychiatry. 166 (2): 196–205. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08020183. ISSN 0002-953X. PMID 18981063.
  11. Stefansson, Hreinn; Rujescu, Dan; Cichon, Sven; Pietiläinen, Olli P. H.; Ingason, Andres; Steinberg, Stacy; Fossdal, Ragnheidur; Sigurdsson, Engilbert; Sigmundsson, Thordur (2008). "Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia". Nature. 455 (7210): 232–236. doi:10.1038/nature07229. PMC 2687075. PMID 18668039.
  12. He, Kuanjun; An, Zhiguo; Wang, Qingzhong; Li, Tao; Li, Zhiqiang; Chen, Jianhua; Li, Wenjin; Wang, Ti; Ji, Jue (2014-01-01). "CACNA1C, schizophrenia and major depressive disorder in the Han Chinese population". The British Journal of Psychiatry. 204 (1): 36–39. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.113.126979. ISSN 0007-1250. PMID 24262814.
  13. Ji, Weidong; Li, Tao; Pan, Yaosheng; Tao, Hua; Ju, Kang; Wen, Zujia; Fu, Yingchun; An, Zhiguo; Zhao, Qian (2013). "CNTNAP2 is significantly associated with schizophrenia and major depression in the Han Chinese population". Psychiatry Research. 207 (3): 225–228. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2012.09.024. PMID 23123147. S2CID 22534509.
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