Publications by authors named "Ming-Fan Liu"
Meta-analysis of association between TPH2 single nucleotide poiymorphism and depression.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev
March 2022
Tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (TPH2) plays a crucial role in the human brain. Although the association between the TPH2 gene and depression has been suggested in previous meta-analyses, studies based on Chinese subjects are often neglected. Therefore, we included some previous studies based on Chinese subjects to explore the relationship between TPH2 polymorphisms and depression via conducting an extensive meta-analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTeacher's unethical professional behaviors affect students' physical and mental health. Prevention should start with student teachers, but empirical research is lacking in China. This study surveyed over 2,000 student teachers from China to examine the psychometric properties of a student teachers' unethical professional behavior tendencies scale which revised by primary and secondary school teachers' unethical professional behavior tendencies scale.
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- The study investigates how the search for meaning in life (SML) relates to symptoms of depression and anxiety among middle and high school students, considering the role of life events and presence of meaning in life (PML).
- It found that the impact of life events influences whether SML is beneficial or harmful to mental health; low impactful events correlate with a neutral effect and high impactful events with a negative effect.
- The research suggests that enhancing PML and addressing negative life events through training programs could help reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.
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- The study categorizes individuals into four meaning-in-life profiles (HPHS, HPLS, LPHS, LPLS) to investigate their varying mental health levels based on emotional and cognitive processing abilities, particularly among Chinese and Western populations.
- The methodology involved eye movement analysis and recognition-judgment experiments with 118 participating Chinese college students selected from a larger pool.
- Results revealed distinct preferences for emotional stimuli and varying abilities in facial expression recognition across the profiles, indicating that these meaning-in-life profiles influence emotional processing and mental health outcomes.
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- The study investigates how professional identity strength affects pain empathy in pre-service teachers using ERP techniques for detailed brain activity analysis.
- It focuses on two brain components: N110, reflecting emotional response to pain, and P300, indicating cognitive evaluation of pain stimuli.
- Findings suggest that pre-teachers with a strong professional identity exhibit greater emotional and cognitive differences in reaction to pain compared to those with a weak professional identity.