Dr. Xianwei Che, PhD in Neuroscience

Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders

Institutes of Psychological Sciences

Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Email: xianwei.che@monash.edu; xwcheswu@gmail.com; xianwei.che@hznu.edu.cn

Page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xianwei_Che

EDUCATION

September 2015-2019      PhD in the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc), Monash University

September 2012-2015      Master of Psychology in Department of Psychology, Southwest University

RESEARCH INTEREST 

TMS in the treatment of chronic pain

Neuroplasticity changes (EEG and concurrent TMS-EEG) in chronic pain conditions

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

MATLAB programming

EEG; concurrent TMS-EEG; Thermal imaging; fMRI; Heart rate variability; Skin response

HONORS AND AWARDS

September 2015~Present             ·IASP Financial Aid for the 17th World Congress on Pain, Boston, USA

                                                     ·Full scholarship for overseas PhD student from China Scholarship Council (CSC) (48 months)

September 2012~June 2015        ·National scholarship for graduate students, 2012-2015

September 2008~June 2012        ·National Aspiration Scholarship, 2011

MAIN PUBLICATIONS (* corresponding)

*Che, X., Cash, R., Fitzgerald, P., &, Fitzgibbon B. Meta-analytic evidence on the analgesic effects of high-frequency rTMS over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. (in preparation)

*Che, X., Cash, R., Fitzgerald, P., &, Fitzgibbon B. The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex as a flexible hub mediating behavioral as well as local and distributed neural effects of social support context on pain: A Theta Burst Stimulation and TMS-EEG study. NeuroImage. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116053 (2018 IF = 5.8)

Luo, X., Jian, Z., & *Che, X. Investigating the Influence and a Potential Mechanism of Self-compassion on Experimental Pain: Evidence from a Compassionate Self-talk Protocol and Heart Rate Variability. Journal of Pain (accepted on 18/11/2019) (2018 IF = 5.42). doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2019.11.006

*Che, X., Cash, R., Chung, S., Fitzgerald, P., &, Fitzgibbon B. Investigating the influence of social support on experimental pain and related physiological arousal: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2018; 92:437-452. (2018 IF = 8.01)

Luo, X., Qiao, L., & *Che, X., Self-compassion Modulates Heart Rate Variability and Negative Affect to Experimentally Induced Stress. Mindfulness, 9, 1522-1528. (2017 IF = 3.02)

*Che, X., Cash, R., Ng, S., Fitzgerald, P., & Fitzgibbon B. (2018). A Systematic Review of the Processes Underlying the Main and the Buffering Effect of Social Support on the Experience of Pain. Clinical Journal of Pain 34, 1061-1076. (2017 IF = 3.21)

*Che, X., Cash, R., Fitzgerald, P., &, Fitzgibbon B. (2017). The social regulation of pain: autonomic and neurophysiological changes associated with perceived threat. Journal of Pain, 19, 496-505. (2018 IF = 5.42)

Che, X., Luo, X., Tong, D., Fitzgibbon, B., & Yang, J. (2015). Habitual suppression relates to difficulty in regulating emotion with cognitive reappraisal. Biological Psychology, 112, 20-26. (2017 IF = 2.89)

Che, X., Wei, D., Li, W., Li, H., Qiao, L., Qiu, J., Zhang, Q., & Liu, Y. (2014). The correlation between gray matter volume and perceived social support: a voxel-based morphometry study. Social Neuroscience, 9, 152‐159. (2017 IF = 2.58)

Che, X., Zhao, J., Wei, D., Li, B., Guo, Y., Qiu, J., Zhang, Q., & Liu, Y. (2014). Synchronous activation within the default mode network correlates with perceived social support. Neuropsychologia, 63, 26-33. (2017 IF = 2.89)

Che, X., Qi, M., Guan, L., Yang, J., & Zhang, Q. (2014). A study for the relationship between psychological stress and creativity in college students. Journal of Southwest University (Natural Science Edition), 36, 152-155. (Chinese journal)

CONFERENCES AND ACTIVITIES

·Poster presentation at the 17th World Congress on Pain, Boston, USA, 2018. Title: Investigating the influence of social support on experimental pain and related physiological arousal: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

·Oral presentation at the Australasian Society for Social & Affective Neuroscience (AS4SAN), Melbourne, Australia, 2017. Title: The social regulation of pain: autonomic and neurophysiological changes associated with perceived threat.

·Poster presentation at the Australian Pain Society, Sydney, Australia, 2017. Title: The social regulation of pain: autonomic and neurophysiological changes associated with perceived threat.

·Poster presenting at the 21th annual meeting of the OHBM, Hawaii, USA, 2015. Title: Anxiety dissolves the prediction of emotion regulation by resting functional connectivity.

·Participant in the 4th annual conference of society for social neuroscience in Guangzhou, China.

·An operator of the fMRI scanner in the Key laboratory of cognition and personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China, 2014-2015.