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Kun Liu, PhD

Assistant Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry

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Kun Liu, PhD

Biography

Dr. Kun Liu had been a visiting associate professor at Yale University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry from 2015 to 2020 for leading Sports-Neuroscience research in Physical Exercise Affecting Cognition and Emotion (PEACE) program. He founded Brain Peace Science Foundation (BPSF), a 501(c)(3) public charity foundation for clinical consulting, scientific research and education, in 2019 and has been the director of research for the foundation from 2020 to till date. For pursuing higher achievement of research, Dr. Liu has come back to Yale and go on his research and services on Sports-Neuroscience.

Dr. Kun Liu initiated the Sports-Neuroscience as a multi-discipline new scientific realm with his clinical medicine, sports medicine, and neurochemistry experience for more than 10 years. He is a leading scientist transferring basic neurochemistry research to clinical research and broader social services including community based public brain healthcare and athletes performance training. Since 2015, Dr. Liu had been awarded with government and non-government fundings to perform Physical Exercise Affecting Cognition and Emotion (PEACE) programs to improve brain function for patients with ASD, AD, PD, schizophrenia and other brain diseases in Connecticut, Puerto Rico of US and in Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao of China. The PEACE programs have served morn than 30 communities, over 100,000 patients in different regions around the world.

Dr. Liu has published more than 40 papers on peer reviewed international journals, such as PNAS, Journal of Neurochemistry, Neurospychopharmacology, Analytical Chemistry, ACS Sensors, Brain Research, International Neurochemistry and Behavioral Neurology. He also had been reviewer for Analytical Chemistry, Brain Research, Sports Science and Current Alzheimer Research and other international journals. Dr. Liu had also been in charge of Performance Training and Physical Therapy Team for serving Chinese Olympic Athletes for 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Dr. Liu is still using Sports Neuroscience methods to coaching many world top athletes in fencing, pentathlon, and other sports.

Education & Training

  • PhD
    Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008)

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