Hsiang-Yuan Lin
MD
Qualification
- Doctor of Medicine (MD), School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007
- Board-certified Physician, medicine, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan. License/Membership, 2007
Professional Memberships
- International Society for Autism Research
- Organization for Human Brain Mapping
- Taiwanese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Dr. Hsiang-Yuan Lin is a Clinician-Scientist in the Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre and a Staff Psychiatrist in the Adult Neurodevelopmental Services at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Lin obtained his M.D. from the National Taiwan University and completed his residency training in both adult and child/adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital. He further received research training in advanced neuroimaging methods and systems neuroscience in the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia. He specializes in neurodevelopmental disabilities clinically, and is focusing on brain imaging research related to these disabilities, with a particular interest in adapting imaging procedures to include more individuals with intellectual disabilities in research.
Research Synopsis
Dr. Lin’s research work combines multimodal neuroimaging and computational methods to better characterize neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dissect their heterogeneity, investigate endophenotypes and resilience of neurodevelopmental disorders, explore the mechanisms of treatment, including brain stimulation, and provide a better understanding of atypical neurodevelopment across the lifespan. His current work is focusing on adapting brain imaging procedures to include more autistic individuals with intellectual disabilities and/or minimally verbal status in research. The vision from this ongoing work is to enhance a better understanding of the neurobiological bases of the challenges experienced by these populations, and to provide a translational potential in the discovery of mechanisms and targets for novel interventions. He is also focusing on chronic treatment effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on brain structures and functions in individuals with autism spectrum with and without intellectual disabilities.