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Lung Yu

游一龍(Lung Yu)特聘教授

Yu

Education and Career Experience:

National Taiwan University (B.S.)1983-1987

National Taiwan University (M.S.)1987-1989

Rutgers University (Ph.D.)1992-1996

Yale University (Post Doctoral fellow)1996-1997

Institute of Behavioral Medicine, Assistant Professor1997-2002

Institute of Behavioral Medicine, Associate Professor2002-2005

Institute of Behavioral Medicine, Professor2005- 2011

Institute of Behavioral Medicine, Distinguished Professor2012- 2016

Department of Physiology, Distinguished Professor2017-

Speciality 

Substance abuse and neurotoxicity study, Social neuroscienceLearning and memory

Awards 

Dr. Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from NSC, 2002 Outstanding Research Award from NSC, 2012; 2018

Award for Excellence in Teaching from NCKU, 2007; 2010

Award for an Excellent Article for the year from Cheng-Shin Medical Education Foundation, 2008, 2015

Award for NCKU Faculty of Excellence from NSC, 2013

E-mail

lungyu@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Office

Extension5106, 5455

Laboratory

EXT:5434, 5042

Hobby:

Research Interests:

1.Mechanisms underlying MA- , MDMA-, ketamine-, and polydrug-induced neurotoxicity

2.Roles of the signaling pathways in modulating cocaine-associated memory and drug abstinence

3.Sex differences in neurodegenerative diseases, substance abuse, and emotion-related mental disorders

4.Social neurosciences (social support, conformity, learned helplessness, psychological fatigue, abdominal pain)

Lab Members:

Current

Collaborator: Prof. Mina Liao

Postdoctoral Fellow: Jill Sun

Pursuing Ph.D.: Michelle Chan

Pursuing M.S.: Holis, Ben, Winston

Publications(PubMed

Publications for the latest four years since 2021

1.2021, Observer’s adrenal corticosterone secretion involvement in vicarious fear conditioning. Psychoneuroendocrinol, 129:105246.

2.2021, Social disruption-induced stress pre-exposure aggravates, while the presence of conspecifics diminishes, acetic acid-induced writhing. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 238(10):2851-2865.

3.2022, Stress while lacking of control induces ventral hippocampal auyophagic flux hyperactivity and a depression-like behavior, Biomedical Journal, 45: 896-906.

4.2022, Effects of septin-14 gene deletion on adult cognitive/emotional behavior. Front Mol Neurosci, 15: 880858.

5.2023, Male stressed mice having behavioral control may exhibit escalations in neurogenesis and time- and use-dependent spatial memory. Int J Mol Sci, 24: 1983.

6.2023, Medial septal-dorsal lateral septal-accumbal circuit mediating social disruption stress-primed escalation in acid-induced writhes. Front Mol Neurosci, 16: 1158525

7.2024, Combining brief recall and ketamine treatment prevents stress-primed methamphetamine memory reinstatement via heightening mPFC GABA activity. Eur J Pharm 972:176559.

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