Pengmin Qin
Ph.D.
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Date of Birth:
May 2, 1979
Gender:
male
E-mail:
Qin.pengmin@gmail.com
Address:
Institute of Mental Health Research,
University of Ottawa, 1145 Carling Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, K1Z 7K4
EDUCATION:
09/2005 – 04/2009
Ph.D.
Cognitive neuroscience
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
09/2002 -07/2005
M.M.
Physiology
Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
09/1997 -07/2002.
B.S.
Acupuncture
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
05/2009-
Postdoctoral fellowship, Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics,
University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research
PUBLICATIONS
Total citation: 628, Google scholar h-index: 8
IN PREPARATION OR SUBMITTED WORK:
Pengmin Qin, Xuehai wu, Niall Duncan, Weiqi Bao, Weijun Tang, Zhengwei Zhang, Jin Hu, Yi Jin, Xing Wu,
Liang Gao, Lu Lu, Yihui Guan, Ying Mao, Georg Northoff. GABAA receptor deficits predict recovery in
patients with vegetative state. Under review.
Pengmin Qin, Jun Zhang, Zirui Huang, Weijun Tang, Niall W Duncan, Annemarie Wolff, Jin Hu, Liang Gao, Yi
Jin, Xing Wu, Jianfeng Zhang, Lu Lu, Chunping Wu, Xiaoying Qu, Xuehai Wu, Georg Northoff, Decreased
cingulate cortex- insula connection predicts loss of consciousness in anesthesia and vegetative state.
Under review
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
Pengmin Qin, N Duncan, G Northoff. Why and how is the Self-Related to the Brain Midline Regions?
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 (Impact Factor: 2.9)
Pengmin Qin, Simone Grimm, Niall W Duncan, Giles Holland, Jia shen Guo, Yan Fan, Anne Weigand,
Juergen Baudewig, Malek Bajbouj and Georg Northoff. Self-specific stimuli interact differently than
non-self-specific stimuli with eyes-open versus eyes-closed spontaneous activity in auditory cortex.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013, 7, article 437. (Impact Factor: 2.9)
Hayes DJ, Duncan NW, Wiebking C, Pietruska K, Pengmin Qin, Lang S, Gagnon J, Bing PG, Verhaeghe J,
Kostikov AP, Schirrmacher R, Reader AJ, Doyon J, Rainville P, Northoff G. GABAA Receptors Predict
Aversion-Related
Brain
Responses:
An
fMRI-PET
Investigation
in
Healthy
Humans.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2013, 38(8):1438-50 (Impact Factor: 8.678)
Pengming Qin, Niall W. Duncan, Christine Wiebking, Paul Gravel, Oliver Lyttelton, Dave J. Hayes, Jeroen
Verhaeghe, Alexey Kostikov, Ralf Schirrmacher, Andrew. J. Reader, Georg Northoff. GABAA receptors in
visual and auditory cortex and neural activity changes during basic visual stimulation. Frontiers in Human
Neuroscience, 2012, 6, article 337 (Impact Factor: 2.9)
Wiebking C, Duncan NW, Pengmin Qin, Hayes DJ, Lyttelton O, Gravel P, Verhaeghe J, Kostikov AP,
Schirrmacher R, Reader AJ, Bajbouj M, Northoff G. External awareness and GABA-A multimodal imaging
study combining fMRI and [(18) F]flumazenil-PET. Human Brain Mapping, published on line. (Impact Factor:
6.878)
Pengmin Qin, Georg Northoff. How is our self related to midline regions and the default-mode network.
NeuroImage, 2011, 57, 1221-1233 (Impact Factor: 6.25)
Georg Northoff, Pengmin Qin. How can the brain’s resting state activity generate hallucinations? A ‘resting
state hypothesis’ of auditory verbal hallucinations. Schizophrenia Research, 2011, 127:202-214. (Impact
Factor: 4.590)
Pengmin Qin, Yijun Liu, Jinfu Shi, Yuzhi Wang, Niall Duncan, Qiyong Gong, Xuchu Weng, Georg Northoff.
Dissociation between anterior and posterior ortical regions during self-specificity and familiarity: A
combined fMRI-meta-analytic study. Human Brain Mapping, 2012, 33: 154-64. (Impact Factor: 6.878)
Georg Northoff*,Pengmin Qin*, Todd Feinberg. Brain Imaging of the Self - Conceptual, Anatomical and
Methodological Issues, Consciousness Cognition, (2011), 20:52-63. * equal contribution. (Impact Factor:
2.027)
Georg Northoff, Pengmin Qin, Takashi Nakao. Rest–stimulus interaction in the brain: A review. Trends in
Neurosciences, (2010)33(6):277-84 (Impact Factor: 13.582)
Pengmin Qin, Haibo Di, Yijun Liu, Senmin Yu, Qiyong Gong, Niall Duncan, Xuchu Weng, Steven Laureys,
Georg Northoff. Anterior cingulate activity and the self in disorders of consciousness. Human Brain
Mapping. (2010), 12, 1993-2002. (Impact Factor: 6.878)
Pengmin Qin, Haibo DI, Xiaodan Yan, Senming Yu, Dan Yu, Steven Laureys, Xuchu Weng, Mismatch
negativity to the patient's own name in chronic disorders of consciousness. Neuroscience Letters (2008),
448 (1): 24-8. (Impact Factor: 2.026)
Haibo Di, Senming Yu, Xuchu Weng, Steven Laureys, Dan Yu, Jinqi LI, Pengmin Qin, Yihong Zhu, S.Z
Zhang, Yizhang Chen, Cerebral response to patient’s own name in the vegetative and minimally conscious
states, Neurology 68(2007): 895-899. (Impact Factor: 8.31)
Haibo Di, Chunlei Shan, Pengmin Qin, Xuchu Weng. fMRI in nervous and psychotic disorders. Chinese
journal of temporary neurology and neurosurgery 7(2007): 489-494
ACADEMIC TALKS:
2014
Taipei Medical University
“The resting-state activity and the self”
2014
Shuang Ho hospital, Taipei Medical University
“The relationship between self and consciousness - evidences from EEG,
fMRI and PET”
2013
Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, Hangzhou Normal University
“The self in the patients with disorders of consciousness”
2012
Shanghai Mental Health Center
“The interaction between resting state and self-related stimulus”
2011
Languages of Emotion, Berlin Free University
“The self and midline structure”
2007
The 7th Annual meeting of the Chinese Neuroscience Society
“MMN evoked by SON could predict the recovery of consciousness”
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS:
Qin P, Grimm S, Northoff G. (2013) Self-specific stimuli interact differently than non-self-specific stimuli
with eyes-open versus eyes-closed spontaneous activity in auditory cortex. International Society for
Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. Shanghai, China. (Poster presentation).
Hayes D.J., Duncan N.W., Wiebking C., Pietruska K., Lyttleton O., Qin P., Gagnon J., Gravel P., Verhaeghe J.,
Kostikov A.P., Schirrmacher R., Reader A., Doyon J., Rainville P., Northoff G. Aversion related brain activity
is context dependent. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, November 24, 2012, Humboldt Colloquium,
Toronto, Canada (Invited poster presentation).
Wiebking C., Duncan N.W., Qin P., Hayes D.J., Lyttelton O., Gravel P., Verhaeghe J., Kostikov A.P.,
Schirrmacher R., Reader A.J., Bajbouj M., Northoff, G. (2012, June) External awareness and GABA-A
multimodal imaging study combining fMRI and [18F]flumazenil PET. 18th Annual Meeting of the
Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Beijing, China. (Poster presentation).
Qin P., Duncan, N.W., Wiebking, C., Hayes, D.J., Northoff, G. (2012, June) GABAA receptors and the
transition from resting-state to stimulus induced activity. 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for
Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Beijing, China. (Poster presentation).
Qin P, Northoff G. Where is the self in the midline regions (2011).17th Annual Meeting of the Organization
for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Quebec, Canada. (Poster presentation).
EDITOR:
Guest editor, Frontiers in Neurology.
Research Topic: Why and how is the Self-Related to the Brain Midline Regions? Frontiers in Human
Neuroscience.
REVIEWER EXPERIENCE:
Biological psychiatry (Impact Factor: 9.247)
Schizophrenia bulletin (Impact Factor: 8.607)
Cerebral Cortex (Impact Factor: 6.828)
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) (Impact Factor: 5.042),
NeuroImage (Impact Factor: 6.25),
Human Brain Mapping (Impact Factor: 6.878),
PloS one (Impact Factor: 3.534)
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Impact Factor: 2.9)
Doctoral Fellowship Program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences