{"id":299,"date":"2021-01-21T07:29:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T07:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mph.nycu.edu.tw\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:45:24","slug":"%e8%8e%8a%e5%ae%9c%e8%8a%b3%e6%95%99%e6%8e%88","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mph.nycu.edu.tw\/en\/%e8%8e%8a%e5%ae%9c%e8%8a%b3%e6%95%99%e6%8e%88\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Professor & Director\nYi-Fang Chuang"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u25cf Office:<\/strong>Room 208, Second Medical Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf Contact number:<\/strong>(02) 2826-7000 #67981<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf E-mail\uff1a<\/strong>chuangy@nycu.edu.tw<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cfCV(ENG ver.)<\/strong><\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\u25cf For IPH personal page, click<\/strong> here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cb Ph.D., Department of Public Health and Mental Health (2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cb National Taiwan University Department of Medicine (2002)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cb Attending Physician, Department of Psychiatry, Yadong Hospital (2015-present)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cb National Institute on Aging) Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cb Attending Physician of Psychiatry at Min-Sheng General Hospital(2007-2008)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cb Residency in Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital (2003-2007)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf Professional Specialty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epidemiology of Mental Illness, Cognition of the Elderly, Mental Health of the Elderly, Drug Epidemiology of the Elderly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cf Research interest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Risk factors and biomarkers of cognitive degeneration and dementia in the elderly, brain structure and functional imaging,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cardiovascular disease and dementia in the elderly, obesity and dementia in the elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u25cf Books (or research publications)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u25cb Publications in PubMed<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u25cfFeatured publications (selected 6 articles)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Chuang, YF & Liu, YC & Tseng, HY & Lin, PX & Li, CY & Shih, MH & Lin, KC & Yang, TYO & Yan, SH & Chiu, YL. (2021).Urban-rural differences in the prevalence and correlates of mild cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults in Taiwan: The EMCIT study. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association. 120. 10.1016\/j.jfma.2021.03.005.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Chiu, Y. L., Tsai, H. H., Lai, Y. J., Tseng, H. Y., Wu, Y. W., Peng, Y. Sen, \u2026 Chuang, Y. F. (2019). Cognitive impairment in patients with end-stage renal disease: Accelerated brain aging? Journal of the Formosan Medical Association. (in press) ttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jfma.2019.01.011<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Chuang YF, Elango P, Gonzalez CE, Thambisetty M. Midlife anticholinergic drug use, risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and brain atrophy in community-dwelling older adults. Alzheimer\u2019s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions. 2017(3) 471-479<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Chuang YF, Yang An, Murat Bilgel, Dean F. Wong, Juan C. Troncoso, Richard J. O\u2019Brian, Luigi Ferruci, Susan M. Resnick, Madhav Thambisetty. Midlife Adiposity predicts earlier onset of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia, neuropathology and presymptomatic cerebral amyloid accumulation. Mol Psychiatry. 2016 Jul;21(7):910-5<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Chuang YF, Tanaka T, Beason-Held LL, An Y, Terracciano A, Sutin AR, Kraut M, Singleton AB, Resnick SM, Thambisetty M. FTO genotype and Aging: pleotrophic longitudinal effects on adiposity, brain function, impulsivity and food preference. Molecular Psychiatry 2015 Feb;20(1):140-7<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Chuang YF, Breitner JC, Chiu YL, Khachaturian A, Hayden K, Corcoran C, Tschanz J, Norton M, Munger R, Welsh-Bohmer K, Zandi PP; For the Cache County Investigators. Use of diuretics is associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease: The Cache County Study. Neurobiology of aging 2014 Nov;35(11):2429-35<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    \u25cfFeatured advisee thesis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. The relationship between sleep quality and cognitive function performance and brain structure changes in Taiwan's elderly population<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. To explore the correlation between the burden of cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive function changes in the elderly in the community<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. The impact of social activity participation on cognitive function among middle-aged and elderly people in Taiwan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Correlation of exposure to air and noise pollution on cognitive performance in the elderly population in Taiwan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. The relationship between subjective sleep quality and cognitive function performance, brain structure and white matter integrity in the elderly population of Taiwan community<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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