Kuan Hong Wang
Chief
Unit on Neural Circuits and Adaptive Behaviors
National Institute of Mental Health NCNP
Japan
Biography
Dr. Wang is chief of the Unit on Neural Circuits and Adaptive Behaviors in the Genes Cognition and Psychosis program at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Wang received his B.A. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College and his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Francisco, where he studied the molecular regulators of sensory axon growth and branching during development with Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Dr. Wang obtained postdoctoral training with Susumu Tonegawa at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he examined the ways in which cortical neurons respond to an animal's experience by directly visualizing the molecular activity of a given set of neurons over several days in the live animal. With this approach, he revealed a physiological function of neural activity regulated gene Arc in sharpening stimulus-specific responses in visual cortex.
Research Interest
psychiatric disorders
