Doctor LU Hanna                            Research Assistant Professor           路翰娜博士 PhD (CUHK) Fax: (852) 2667-5464 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: https:orcid.org/0000-0002-9090-258X Personal website: www.thebrainx.com

OTHER POSITIONS:

• Associate Researcher: Shenzhen Research Institute (SZRI) CUHK (By Courtesy)

• Associate editor: Journal of Alzheimer’ Disease (2018-)

• Guest editor: CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics (2018-)
   

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Mechanisms of cognitive ageing and resilience

• Precise measurement of neurocognitive function

• Individualized non-invasive brain stimulation

• Neuroinformatics approach to brain science in psychiatry
  
  

 AWARDS:

• 2015 Best Paper Awards on The 15th Congress of Chinese Cerebrovascular Diseases (CCCD)
  
  
• 2015 Performance Awards on The 22nd International Student Congress of [Bio] Medical Sciences 2018 (ISCOMS'15)
  
  
• 2018 Young Investigator Awards on The 15th Meeting of the Asian-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry (APSN)
  
  
• 2015 Best Paper Awards on "Putting Aging Research and Clinical Practice in Cultural Context": US-Hong Kong Conference
  
  

 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

 Neuropsychology

1. Lu H, Lam LC. Associations between intra-individual variability and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in cognitive ageing and prodromal dementia: A domain-specific perspective. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 2018; 48: 102-103.

2. Lu H, Chan SSM, Lam LCW. ‘Two-level’ measurements of processing speed as cognitive markers in the differential diagnosis of DSM-5 mild neurocognitive disorders (NCD). Scientific Reports 2017; 7.

3. Lu H, Lam LC. Impacts of 'two-level' variability on the differential power for Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in prodromal dementia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2017; 88(2):186-187.

4. Lu H, Chan SS, Fung AW, Lam LCW. Utility of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (Hong Kong Version) in the Diagnosis of Mild Neurocognitive Disorders (NCD): NCD due to Alzheimer Disease (NCD-AD) and NCD due to Vascular Disease (NCD-Vascular). Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2016; 17(4): 366.

5. Lu H, Chan SSM, Fung AWT, Lam LCW. Efficiency of attentional components in elderly with mild neurocognitive disorders shown by the attention network test. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2016; 41(1-2): 93-98.

6. Lu H, Fung AWT, Chan SSM, Lam LCW. Disturbance of attention network functions in Chinese healthy older adults: an intra-individual perspective. International Psychogeriatrics 2016; 28(2): 291-301.

 Neuroimaging

1. Lu H. Towards a more targeted rTMS treatment for late-life depression: age-specific morphometric variance of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation 2017;10(2):365.

2. Lu H, Ma SL, Wong SWH, et al. Aberrant interhemispheric functional connectivity within default mode network and its relationships with neurocognitive features in cognitively normal APOE ε 4 elderly carriers. International Psychogeriatrics 2017; 29(5): 805-814.

3. Lu H. Ma SL, Chan SSM, Lam LCW. The effects of Apolipoprotein ε 4 on aging brain in cognitively normal Chinese elderly: a surface-based morphometry study. International Psychogeriatrics 2016; 28(9): 1503-1511.

4. Lu H, Ma SL, Wong SWH, et al. Aberrant interhemispheric functional connectivity within default mode network and its relationships with neurocognitive features in cognitively normal APOE ε 4 elderly carriers. International Psychogeriatrics 2017;29(5):805-814.

 Neuropsychology & Neuroimaging

1. Lu H, Xi N, Fung AW, Lam LC. Mapping the Proxies of Memory and Learning Function in Senior Adults with High-performing, Normal Aging and Neurocognitive Disorders. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2018; 64(3): 815-826.

2. Lu H, Chan SSM, Fung AWT, Lam LCW. Beyond a Differential Diagnosis: Cognitive and Morphometric Decoding of Information Processing Speed in Senior Adults with DSM-5 Mild Neurocognitive Disorders. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2017; 58(3):927-937.