Winson Yang

Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Expertise

Advanced meditation
Meditative development
Meditation
Human flourishing
Computational methods

Publications

General Perception of Doctor–Patient Relationship From Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: A Cross-Sectional Study
Frontiers in Public Health
2021
Stigmatizing Attitudes Towards Mental Disorders Among Non-Mental Health Professionals in Six General Hospitals in Hunan Province
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2020
Network of burnout, depression, anxiety, and dropout intention in medical undergraduates
International Journal of Social Psychiatry
2023
High prevalence and risk factors of dropout intention among Chinese medical postgraduates
Medical Education Online
2022
Within‐subject reliability of brain networks during advanced meditation: An intensively sampled 7 Tesla MRI case study
Human Brain Mapping
2024
Mindfulness Meditation and Network Neuroscience: Review, Synthesis, and Future Directions
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
2025
Dynamic brain states underlying advanced concentrative absorption meditation: A 7-T fMRI-intensive case study
Network Neuroscience
2025
Creating and Testing Specialized Dictionaries for Text Analysis
East European Journal of Psycholinguistics
2019
Endogenous suspension and reset of consciousness: 7T fMRI brain mapping of the extended cessation meditative endpoint
Unknown Venue
2025
Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-AGE Scale in Singapore
European Journal of Ageing
2024
Ability and utility of the Physician Well-Being Index to identify distress among Chinese physicians
Annals of Medicine
2025
The neuroscience of highly stable, positive, and refined states of consciousness during jhana-type advanced concentration absorption meditation (ACAM-J)
Unknown Venue
2025
Effects of mobile mindfulness meditation on mental health of university students: Systematic review and meta-analysis (Preprint)
Unknown Venue
2022
The Insight Development Process: A Theoretical Framework for Stages of Advanced Insight Meditation
Unknown Venue
2026
The Insight Development Process: A Theoretical Framework for Stages of Advanced Insight Meditation
Unknown Venue
2026
State and short-term effects of mindfulness meditation training on attention
Journal of Vision
2020
EEG brain reconfiguration during meditation-induced extended cessation of consciousness: A dense-sampling multi-participant microstate study
Unknown Venue
2026
Meditation and Neurofeedback: A Systematic Scoping Review, Synthesis, and Future Directions
Unknown Venue
2026
Whole-Brain Models of Minimal Phenomenal Experience: Approaching Criticality through Jhāna Meditation
Unknown Venue
2025
Neuroelectrophysiological correlates of extended cessation of consciousness in advanced meditators: A multimodal EEG and MEG study
Unknown Venue
2025
Linguistic Markers of Pain Communication on X (Formerly Twitter) in US States With High and Low Opioid Mortality: Machine Learning and Semantic Network Analysis
Journal of Medical Internet Research
2025
Advanced concentrative absorption meditation reorganizes functional connectivity gradients of the brain: 7T MRI and phenomenology case study of jhana meditation
Cerebral Cortex
2025
Investigating the complex cortical dynamics of an advanced concentrative absorption meditation called jhanas (ACAM-J): a geometric eigenmode analysis
Cerebral Cortex
2025
Deconstructing the self and reshaping perceptions: An intensive whole-brain 7T MRI case study of the stages of insight during advanced investigative insight meditation
NeuroImage
2025
Linguistic Markers of Pain Communication on X (Formerly Twitter) in US States With High and Low Opioid Mortality: Machine Learning and Semantic Network Analysis (Preprint)
Unknown Venue
2024
Volitional mental absorption in meditation: Toward a scientific understanding of advanced concentrative absorption meditation and the case of jhana
Heliyon
2024
Altered spontaneous neurological activity in methamphetamine use disorders and its association with cognitive function
Asian Journal of Psychiatry
2024
Intensive whole-brain 7T MRI case study of volitional control of brain activity in deep absorptive meditation states
Cerebral Cortex
2023
Trait Mindfulness is Associated with Dynamic Affective Qualities of Free-Moving Thought
Mindfulness
2023
Neuronal dysfunction in individuals at early stage of schizophrenia, A resting-state fMRI study
Psychiatry Research
2023
Gender differences in alcohol abuse/dependence among medical undergraduates during the post-COVID‑19 pandemic period (October 20, 2020-April 5, 2021) in China
BMC Psychiatry
2023
Multidimensional 3T structural magnetic resonance imaging study of individuals with methamphetamine use disorder: extensive structural abnormalities in frontal cortex and their relationship to cognitive function
Unknown Venue
2023
Workplace violence inflicted by patients or their family members/visitors and its relationship with suicidal ideation among undergraduate medical students during clinical training in China
Annals of Medicine
2023
Association between white matter microstructure and cognitive function in patients with methamphetamine use disorder
Human Brain Mapping
2022
A brainnetome atlas-based methamphetamine dependence identification using neighborhood component analysis and machine learning on functional MRI data
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
2022
Influence of periaqueductal gray on other salience network nodes predicts social sensitivity
Human Brain Mapping
2022
Mental health conditions and academic burnout among medical and non-medical undergraduates during the mitigation of COVID-19 pandemic in China
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
2022
Prevalence and related factors of anxiety in first episode and drug naïve Chinese Han outpatients with psychotic major depression
Journal of Affective Disorders
2022
Regional Homogeneity Abnormalities and Its Correlation With Impulsivity in Male Abstinent Methamphetamine Dependent Individuals
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
2022
Altered patterns of fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation and regional homogeneity in abstinent methamphetamine-dependent users
Scientific Reports
2021
Cancer caregivers unmet needs and emotional states across cancer treatment phases
PLOS ONE
2021
Factors of Negative Affect in Elderly Patients With Substance Use Disorders During COVID-19 Pandemic
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2021
Comparison of Thyroid Hormone Levels Between Patients With Major Depressive Disorder and Healthy Individuals in China
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2021
Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Eyes of Medical Professionals in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2021
Doctor-patient relationship improved during COVID-19 pandemic, but weakness remains
BMC Family Practice
2021
Lifestyle and Symptom Management Needs: A Network Analysis of Family Caregiver Needs of Cancer Patients
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2021
Resting functional connectivity in the semantic appraisal network predicts accuracy of emotion identification
NeuroImage: Clinical
2021
Validation of the Needs Assessment of Family Caregivers-Cancer scale in an Asian population
BMC Psychology
2020
Divergent patterns of loss of interpersonal warmth in frontotemporal dementia syndromes are predicted by altered intrinsic network connectivity
NeuroImage: Clinical
2019

Education

Texas Tech University

Graduate student, Department of Psychological Sciences / September, 2022

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Maastricht University

Master's of Science / August, 2017

Maastricht

Experience

Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Fellow / October, 2022Present

Texas Tech University

Graduate Research Assistant / September, 2018September, 2022

National University Hospital

November, 2017May, 2018

University of California, San Francisco

Visiting Scholar / October, 2016August, 2017

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