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Prof S.H. Annabel Chen is the President Chair in Psychology and has a joint appointment at LKCMedicine and the National Institute of Education. She is a clinical neuropsychologist (licensed in Clinical Psychology, USA; Singapore Registry of Psychologists) by training and has worked with both adult and child populations. She received her Doctorate in Clinical Rehabilitation Psychology from Purdue University at Indianapolis. After completing her clinical psychology internship in Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University School of Medicine, she went on to pursue a post-doctoral clinical residency in Clinical Neuropsychology, Neurology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She subsequently worked as a post-doctoral research affiliate at the Lucas MRS/I Center in Radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, and was an assistant professor at the National Taiwan University in the Graduate Clinical Psychology programme. She joined NTU as an associate professor in 2008 and served as the Associate Chair for Research for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2014-2015. She is currently the Director at the Centre of Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE) and the Director (NTU) at the Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualized Cognition (CLIC).
Prof Chen has a diverse research background, including animal drug studies, human neuropsychological research and cognitive rehabilitation. She has applied Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to study individuals with post-concussion sequelae from mild traumatic brain injury and olfaction in Alzheimer’s Disease, and has been involved in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) research examining language processing, executive functions, and affective memory in healthy and clinical populations (e.g. stroke, anxiety, schizophrenia, dementia), as well as, assessing neural systems used in motor timing/timing perception in patients with Parkinson's Disease. Her main research interests are to investigate underlying neural substrates involved in higher cognition in the cerebellum, as well as changes in cognitive processes in healthy aging and dementia through the application of neuroimaging techniques, such as fMRI, diffusion MRI, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and electroencephalography (EEG). The goal of her research is to apply these paradigms to study and to develop neuroimaging markers in the cerebro-cerebellar circuitry for clinical groups, and to further understand the processes of neurodevelopmental (e.g. schizophrenia, dyslexia, autism) and neurodegenerative (e.g. dementia, healthy aging) conditions that would be informative to evidence-based interventions.
A recent research development in her lab, the Clinical Brain lab, is focusing on the Neuroscience of Learning and Education (Science of Learning). In particular, their lab is investigating the neurophysiological changes in aging neuroscience for learning in language, memory and executive control networks. This allows development of neuromodulation techniques to optimize and/or enhance brain functions for learning. They are also developing research in understanding the effects of emotion on cognition and self-regulation with the use of neuroimaging
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RT09/19 (S)
MOE2019-T2-1-019
NRF2016-SOL002-011
NRF2015-SOL001-011