Li, Shijia

BSc    East China Normal University (School of Life Science)    Biotechniques

MSc    East China Normal University (School of Life Science)    Molecular Neurobiology

PhD    Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg    Biological Psychology

PhD assistent     Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Universitätsklinikum) & Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie (LIN)     Clinic Neuroimaging

Postdoc        Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Universitätsklinikum) & Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie (LIN)     Clinic Neuroimaging

2015-2018        East China Normal University (School of Psychology and Cognitive Science)    Chenhui Scholar (assistent professor)

2019-            East China Normal University (School of Psychology and Cognitive Science)    associate professor

Dr. rer. nat. Shijia Li was graduated in East China Normal University with a MSc. degree in Molecular Neurobiology. After graduation, she was awarded 4 years PhD scholarship from Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) and went to Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in German, joined the Biological Psychology Team of Prof. Dr. Christiane M. Thiel and started working on the Human cognitive behavior and fMRI study. Her main interest during PhD was how acute stress influence emotional facial memory retrieval.

In 2013, Dr. Li started working in the team of Prof. Dr. Martin Walter - The Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory (CANLAB) of Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg and the Leibniz Institution for Neurobiology, as a PhD assistant and then a Postdoc. During the time, her focus was the attention regulation related functional connectivity in healthy subjects and depression patients. 

Dr. Li currently work as associate professor in the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, since 2015. Her main topic is how individual differences (both biological and psychological factors) and social stress influencing the perception of unfairness and cognitive flexibility, as well as clinical applications; moreover, she is interested in the development of stress coping.

Social stress & Major Depressive Disorders

For undergraduates: 

Biological Psychology (Chinese)

Frontiers in Biological Psychology: Stress, Brain and Mental Health (English)

For graduate students: 

Stress, Brain and Mental Health

01/2017-01/2019 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

06/2016-06/2019 Shanghai Sailing Program

2017-2019 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Special Foundation (10th)

2017-2019 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Financial support (59th, second level)

15.07/2014 – 15.01/2015 Postdoc-Brückenförderung für Wissenschaftlerinnen der Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg (Postdoc-bridge promotion for female scientists in the OvGU Magdeburg), 6 month

09/2009-08/2013, China Scholarship Council, financial support for oversee PhD program, 4 years.

著作(Book, in Chinese)：Stress Psychology:from Brain, Development to Mental Health

主要发表论文（Key publications）:

1. Shijia Li, Liliana Ramona Demenescu, Catherine M. Sweeney-Reed, Anna Linda Krause, Coraline D. Metzger, Martin Walter. Novelty seeking and reward dependence related large-scale brain networks functional connectivity variation during salience expectancy. Human Brain Mapping. 2017. 38(8):4064-4077

2.Zhang, R., Zhou, X., Feng, D., Yuan, D., Li, S.*, Lu, C.*, Li, X*. (2021).

Effects of acute psychosocial stress on interpersonal cooperation and competition in young women. Brain and Cognition. online publication.doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105738.

3. Yaling Deng, Shijia Li#, Renlai Zhou and Martin Walter. Neuroticism Modulates the Functional Connectivity From Amygdala to Frontal Networks in Females When Avoiding Emotional Negative Pictures. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 2019. 13:102 (#shared 1st author)

4. Shijia Li, Jun Tang, Yan Gao, Christiane M. Thiel, Oliver T. Wolf. The serotonin transporter gene variants modulate acute stress-induced hippocampus and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex activity during memory retrieval. Psych Journal. 2019. 8(3):363-377 (Special Issue: Stress‐Related Health Outcome)

5. Xiangyi Zhang, Shijia Li#, Yongfang Liu, Xiyou Chen, Xuesong Shang, Fangzhu Qi, Xiaoyan Wang, Xiuyan Guo & Jie Chen. Gain–loss situation modulates neural responses to self–other decision making under risk. Scientific Reports. 2019. 9 (632) (#shared 1st author)

6. Yaling Deng, Shijia Li#, Renlai Zhou, Martin Walter. Motivation but not valence modulates neuroticism dependent cingulate cortex and insula activity. Human Brain Mapping. 2018. 39(4):1664-1672 (#shared 1st author)

7. Bin Zhang, Shijia Li#, Chuanjun Zhuo, Meng Li, Adam Safron, Axel Genz, Wen Qi, Chunshui Yu, Martin Walter. Altered task-specific deactivation in the default mode network depends on valence in patients with major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2017. 1;207:377-383. (#shared 1st author)

8. Shijia Li, Riklef Weerda, Christopher Milde, Oliver T. Wolf, Christiane M Thiel. ADRA2B genotype differentially modulates stress-induced neural activity in the amygdala and hippocampus during emotional memory retrieval. Psychopharmacology. 2015. Vol.232(4): 755-764. 

9. Martin Walter, Shijia Li, Liliana Ramona Demenescu. Multistage drug effects of ketamine in the treatment of major depression. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 2014. Vol.264, Suppl 1:S55-65

10. Shijia Li, Riklef Weerda, Christopher Milde, Oliver T. Wolf, Christiane M. Thiel. Effects of acute psychosocial stress on neural activity to emotional and neutral faces in a face recognition memory paradigm. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 2014. Vol.8(4):598-610 

11. Shijia Li, Riklef Weerda, Friederike Guenzel, Oliver T. Wolf, Christiane M. Thiel. ADRA2B genotype modulates effects of acute psychosocial stress on emotional memory retrieval in healthy young men. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 2013. Vol.103: 11–18 

其他发表论文 (other publications):

1.余思雨, 严龙伟, 余菊, 闫瑾, 聂改华, 张亚, 李世佳*。应对突发卫生事件中的医护人员压力：压力源、心理健康的风险和保护因素、干预建议。心理学进展。2020. 10(7)

2. Lejla Colic,Meng Li,Liliana Ramona Demenescu, Shija Li, Iris Müller,Anni Richter,Constanze I. Seidenbecher,  Oliver Speck,Björn H. Schott,Oliver Stork,Martin Walter. A GAD65 promoter polymorphism rs2236418 modulates harm avoidance in women via inhibition/excitation balance in the rostral ACC. Journal of Neuroscience. 2018. 1985-17

3. Inka Ristow, Jens Foell, Christian Kärgel, Viola Borchardt, Shijia Li, Dominik Denzel, Joachim Witzel, Krasimira Drumkova, Klaus Beier, Tillmann HC Kruger, Jorge Ponseti, Boris Schiffer, Kolja Schiltz, Henrik Walter, Martin Walter. Expectation of sexual images of adults and children elicits differential dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activation in pedophilic sexual offenders and healthy controls. Neuroimage: Clinical. 2019. 23:101863

4. Martin Walter, Felicia von Düring, Inka Ristow, Meng Li, Dominik Denzel, Lejla Colic, Liliana Ramona Demenescu, Shijia Li, Viola Borchardt, Thomas Liebe, Matthias Vogel. Glutamate in salience network predicts BOLD response in default mode network during salience processing. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 2019.  

5. Thomas Liebe, Shijia Li,  Anton Lord, Lejla Colic, Anna Linda Krause, Anil Batra, Moritz A. Kretzschmar, Catherine M. Sweeney-Reed, Gusalija Behnisch, Björn H. Schott, Martin Walter. Factors influencing the cardiovascular response to sub-anesthetic ketamine – a randomized trial. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2017. 20(11):909-918.

6. Cornelia Sindermann, Keith M. Kendrick, Benjamin Becker, Mei Li, Shijia Li, Christian Montag. Does Growing up in Urban Compared to Rural Areas Shape Primary Emotional Traits? Behavioral Science. 2017. 7(3):60

7. Liliana Ramona Demenescu, Lejla Colic, Meng Li, Adam Safron, Bharat Biswal, Coraline D. Metzgerd, Shijia Li, Martin Walter. A Spectroscopic Approach towards Depression Diagnosis: Local Metabolism Meets Functional Connectivity. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 2017. 267(2): 95-105

8. Shijia Li, Liliana Ramona Demenescu, Anna Linda Krause, Kolja Neubacher, Marie Wölfer, Björn Langbein, Martin Walter. Neurobiological Augmentation of Psychotherapy in Treatment Resistant Depression. Journal of Depression and Anxiety. 2014. S2:002

9. Shijia Li, YiranGu, Bo Meng, Bing Mei, Fei Li. The different effects of over-expressing murine NMDA receptor 2B subunit in the forebrain on conditioned taste aversion. Brain Research. 2010, 1351:165-71

10. Bo Meng, Shujia Zhu, Shijia Li, Qingwen Zeng, Bing Mei. Global view of the mechanisms of improved learning and memory capability in mice with music-exposure by microarray. 2009. Brain Research Bulletin. 80:36–44

11. 李世佳，徐敏华，李春霞，周天舒，孟 博，梅 兵。前脑特异性过表达NR2B 基因对小鼠焦虑样行为无明显影响。生理学报。2009。61(3):272-278