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Record my progress step by step

* 2024.06 I presented my research on childhood adversity and brain aging at OHBM 2024, South of Korea 🥰

* 2024.04 I did my oral presentation on childhood adversity and the risk of psychosis at SIRS conference in Florence, Italy. 😃 🎉

* 2024.02 I got my second seed grant to study childhood adveristy, retinal structural changes in schizophrenia 🎉 “From the Window into the Brain: Investigating the Association between Childhood Trauma and Retinal Structural Changes in First-Episode Psychosis”, €4600, De Cock-Hadders Foundation.

* 2024.01 One paper published from my master’s project, in which we looked at how childhood adversity influence the brain structures in participants with depressive symptoms. 🎉 🎉 🎉 Zhou, H. Y., Zhou, L., Zheng, T. X., Ma, L. P., Fan, M. X., Liu, L., … & Yan, C. (2024). Unraveling the link between childhood maltreatment and depression: Insights from the role of ventral striatum and middle cingulate cortex in hedonic experience and emotion regulation. Development and psychopathology, 1-11. Read it now

* 2023.12 I got my first seed grant to explore the association between childhood adversity and brain aging in mental disorders 🎉

* 2023.09 I gave my first poster presentation at IBRO conference, Granada, Spain. It is about gray matter network changes in trauma-exposed schizophrenia 🎉

* 2023.03 I gave my first oral presentation on childhood adversity and schciophrenia at BCN PhD student retreat, Groningen. 🎉 🥳

* 2023.02 I got the OHBM student fellowship, and had my mentor from the US to help me with my career development. 🥰

* 2022.06 The master student I supervised, Yael Harvey, won the best poster award. Her thesis is about childhood adversity and cortical folding pattern in schizophrenia and biplor. Congrats, Yael！🎉 As her co-supervisor, I am pretty pround of her, and of course, myself. 😎

* 2022.05 I attend a very good workshop named EMPOWER YOUR PHD. It teaches me two very important things: first, keep an open mind; second, it is my PhD, not others’. 👍

* 2022.04 I attended my first European international conference: Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) at Florence, Italy. I began to learn how to social as one introverted person. 😉

* 2022.01 I started my PhD in Netherlands, moving from Shanghai to Groningen. I am excited but also surperised by the weather. 😮