He Yirong / Special Associate Researcher
Biography
Yirong He, Ph.D., is a Special Associate Researcher. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University. In July 2025, she joined the Institute of Brain Science and Rehabilitation Medicine at South China Normal University as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Her primary research focuses on the structural and functional network mechanisms of brain disorders and brain development based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In recent years, she has published over 10 SCI-indexed papers, including first-author publications in internationally renowned journals such as PLoS Biology and Cerebral Cortex.
Education and Work Experience
2025.07–Present: Special Associate Researcher, Institute for Brain Research and Rehabilitation, South China Normal University; Mentor: Prof. Jinhui Wang
2021.09–2025.06: Doctor’s degree, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University; Mentor: Prof. Shuyu Li
2018.09–2021.0: Master’s degree, School of Biological Science & Medical Engineering, Beihang University; Mentor: Prof. Shuyu Li
2014.09–2018.06: Bachelor’s degree, School of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin Medical University
Recent Major Research Achievements
1. Yirong He, Debin Zeng, Qiongling Li, Lei Chu, Xiaoxi Dong, Xinyuan Liang, Lianglong Sun, Xuhong Liao, Tengda Zhao, Xiaodan Chen, Tianyuan Lei, Weiwei Men, Yanpei Wang, Daoyang Wang, Mingming Hu, Zhiying Pan, Haibo Zhang, Ningyu Liu, Shuping Tan, Jia-Hong Gao, Shaozheng Qin, Sha Tao, Qi Dong, Yong He, Shuyu Li*. The multiscale brain structural reorganization that occurs from childhood to adolescence correlates with cortical morphology maturation and functional specialization[J]. PLoS biology, 2025, 23(4): e3002710.
2. Yirong He, Qiongling Li, Zhenrong Fu, Debin Zeng, Ying Han*, Shuyu Li*. Functional gradients reveal altered functional segregation in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease[J]. Cerebral Cortex, 2023, 33(21):10836-10847.
3. Lei Chu, Debin Zeng, Yirong He, Xiaoxi Dong, Qiongling Li, Xuhong Liao, Tengda Zhao, Xiaodan Chen, Tianyuan Lei, Weiwei Men, Yanpei Wang, Daoyang Wang, Mingming Hu, Zhiying Pan, Shuping Tan, Jia-Hong Gao, Shaozheng Qin, Sha Tao, Qi Dong, Yong He*, Shuyu Li*. Segregation of the regional radiomics similarity network exhibited an increase from late childhood to early adolescence: A developmental investigation[J]. Neuroimage, 2024, 302(15): 120893.
4. Xiaoxi Dong, Qiongling Li, Xuetong Wang, Yirong He, Debin Zeng, Lei Chu, Kun Zhao, Shuyu Li*. How brain structure–function decoupling supports individual cognition and its molecular mechanism[J]. Human Brain Mapping, 2024, 45(2): e26575.
5. Lei Chu, Baoqiang Ma, Xiaoxi Dong, Yirong He, Tongtong Che, Debin Zeng, Zihao Zhang, Shuyu Li*. A paired dataset of multi-modal MRI at 3 Tesla and 7 Tesla with manual hippocampal subfield segmentations[J]. Scientific Data, 2025, 12(1): 260.
6. Zhenrong Fu, Mingyan Zhao, Yuxia Li, Yirong He, Xuetong Wang, Zongkui Zhou, Ying Han*, Shuyu Li*. Heterogeneity in subjective cognitive decline in the Sino Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Decline(SILCODE): Empirically derived subtypes, structural and functional verification[J]. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, 2023, 29(12):4032-4042.
7. Xuetong Wang, Qiongling Li, Yan Zhao, Yirong He, Baoqiang Ma, Zhenrong Fu, Shuyu Li*. Decomposition of individual-specific and individual-shared components from resting-state functional connectivity using a multi-task machine learning method[J]. Neuroimage, 2021, 238: 118252.
8. Zhenrong Fu, Mingyan Zhao, Yirong He, Xuetong Wang, Xin Li, Guixia Kang, Ying Han*, Shuyu Li*. Aberrant topological organization and age-related differences in the human connectome in subjective cognitive decline by using regional morphology from magnetic resonance imaging[J]. Brain Structure and Function, 2022, 227:2015-2033.
9. Zhenrong Fu, Mingyan Zhao, Yirong He, Xuetong Wang, Jiadong Lu, Shaoxian Li, Xin Li, Guixia Kang, Ying Han*, Shuyu Li*. Divergent Connectivity Changes in Grey Matter Structural Covariance Networks in Subjective Cognitive Decline, Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer’s Disease. Front. Aging Neurosci., 2021, 13: 686598.
10. Zhenrong Fu, Mingyan Zhao, Xuetong Wang, Yirong He, Yuan Tian, Yujing Yang, Ying Han∗, Shuyu Li∗. Altered neuroanatomical asymmetries of subcortical structures in subjective cognitive decline, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2021, 79(3), 1121-1132.
Email: yironghe@m.scnu.edu.cn