Professor Kim Hyun-joo of Bundang Cha Hospital Wins Academic Award of the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry
Nov 21, 2024
Professor Kim Hyun-joo of the Department of Psychiatry at Cha Medical University Bundang Cha Hospital (Director Yoon Sang-wook) recently won the '2024 Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry Academic Award' at the 2024 regular general meeting of the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry.
Professor Kim Hyun-joo identified the structural network related to treatment resistance of long-term drug treatment through machine learning techniques and sophisticated brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) connectome analysis in panic disorder in July 2024 under the leadership of Professor Lee Sang-hyuk of the Department of Psychiatry at Bundang Cha Hospital and published it in the journal Journal of Anxiety Disorders (IF=10.3, 2022 JCR)'. In recognition of the research results resulting from this, he won the Lundbeck Academy of Biological Psychiatry's Lundbeck Neuroscience Award in 2024.
By analyzing the connectome, the brain's structural network, in panic disorder, it was reported that excessive increase in the connectivity of the amygdala and the isula was associated with decreased response to long-term drug treatment, indicating that structural connectome changes in the brain may be an important factor in the drug treatment response of panic disorder.
The study found that panic disorder has mostly been regarded as a psychological and functional disease, but panic disorder itself is a brain disease and that changes in connectivity in the brain's structural network should be noted as a major factor in evaluating responsiveness to drug treatment.
Professor Kim Hyun-joo is an expert with a number of clinical experience in the field of anxiety disorder and brain imaging, and continues active research activities that encompass not only clinical research but also intermediary research and various basic research.
In the past five years, he has published a number of papers in the highest SCI-level journals in the field, and in May last year, he was selected as an excellent paper by the National Center for Biological Research and Information (BRIC) for People who Shined Korea (HAN Bitsa) by examining the relationship between emotional difficulties and epigenetic changes in childhood in panic disorder. It has been awarded by professional societies such as the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association, the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry, and the Korean Society of Anxiety Medicine. He was also selected as the winner of the Young Researcher Award at the Fall Conference of the Korean Society of Anxiety Medicine in 2024.
Professor Kim Hyun-joo identified the structural network related to treatment resistance of long-term drug treatment through machine learning techniques and sophisticated brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) connectome analysis in panic disorder in July 2024 under the leadership of Professor Lee Sang-hyuk of the Department of Psychiatry at Bundang Cha Hospital and published it in the journal Journal of Anxiety Disorders (IF=10.3, 2022 JCR)'. In recognition of the research results resulting from this, he won the Lundbeck Academy of Biological Psychiatry's Lundbeck Neuroscience Award in 2024.
By analyzing the connectome, the brain's structural network, in panic disorder, it was reported that excessive increase in the connectivity of the amygdala and the isula was associated with decreased response to long-term drug treatment, indicating that structural connectome changes in the brain may be an important factor in the drug treatment response of panic disorder.
The study found that panic disorder has mostly been regarded as a psychological and functional disease, but panic disorder itself is a brain disease and that changes in connectivity in the brain's structural network should be noted as a major factor in evaluating responsiveness to drug treatment.
Professor Kim Hyun-joo is an expert with a number of clinical experience in the field of anxiety disorder and brain imaging, and continues active research activities that encompass not only clinical research but also intermediary research and various basic research.
In the past five years, he has published a number of papers in the highest SCI-level journals in the field, and in May last year, he was selected as an excellent paper by the National Center for Biological Research and Information (BRIC) for People who Shined Korea (HAN Bitsa) by examining the relationship between emotional difficulties and epigenetic changes in childhood in panic disorder. It has been awarded by professional societies such as the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association, the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry, and the Korean Society of Anxiety Medicine. He was also selected as the winner of the Young Researcher Award at the Fall Conference of the Korean Society of Anxiety Medicine in 2024.
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