Professor Huang is Executive Director (Acting) of Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) and Director of the Centre for Translational Neuroscience (CTN) in the University of Wollongong, Australia. He was awarded a Doctoral Degree in Medicine from China in 1983, a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia in 1993, and a Doctor of Science from the University of Wollongong (UoW) Australia in 2011. He has published about 300 publications including 3 books, 9 book chapters, 131 international peer-reviewed articles, 24 letters to editors and 134 conference proceedings. His work has been cited over 3,000 times in the literature. He has been a member of the NHMRC-GRP and ARC-ERA panels and is an ARC Australian Reader. His expertise is in studying: (1) the mechanisms of obesity and diabetes induced by either antipsychotics or a high-energy diet; (2) the therapeutic mechanisms of treating schizophrenia and validation of new compounds using in vitro, in vivo and molecular imaging techniques; and (3) the application of triterpene molecules extracted from herbal medicines to improve glucose and lipid metabolism, anti-inflammation and cognitive function.
Articles
Neuregulin-1 signalling and antipsychotic treatment: potential therapeutic targets in a schizophrenia candidate signalling pathway (with Chao Deng, Bo Pan, and Martin Engel), Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers (2013)
Identifying the signalling pathways underlying the pathophysiology of schizophrenia is an essential step in the...
Data from NMDA receptor/neuregulin 1 signalling in response to phencyclidine administration, University of Wollongong (2012)
NRGI-NMDAR signalling.
Alterations to melanocortinergic, GABAergic and cannabinoid neurotransmission associated with olanzapine-induced weight gain (with Katrina Weston-Green and Chao Deng), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2012)
Are there different neural mechanisms responsible for three stages of weight gain development in anti-psychotic therapy: Temporally based hypothesis (with Nagesh Brahmavar Pai, Chao Deng, Shae-Leigh C. Vella, and David Castle), Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (Archive) (2012)
Weight gain as a result of atypical anti-psychotic treatment is a common issue with different...
Carbon nanotube nanoweb-bioelectrode for highly selective dopamine sensing (with Jie Zhao, Weimin Zhang, Peter Sherrell, Joselito M. Razal, Andrew I. Minett, and Jun Chen), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive) (2012)
A highly sensitive and selective dopamine sensor was fabricated with the unique 3D carbon nanotube...
Books
The Rhesus monkey brain : in stereotaxic coordinates (with George Paxinos, Michael Petrides, and Arthur Toga), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive) (2008)
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The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates is the most comprehensive and accurate atlas...
The Rhesus monkey brain in stereotaxic coordinates (with George Paxinos and Arthur W. Toga), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive) (1999)
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The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates is the most comprehensive,...
Atlas of the human brain stem (with George Paxinos), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive) (1995)
Work on the human brainstem has been impeded by the unavailability of a comprehensive diagrammatic...
Contributions to Books
Organization of brainstem nuclei (with George Paxinos, Gulgun Sengul, and Charles Watson), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive) (2012)
This chapter describes human homologs of nuclei identified in the brainstem of other mammals and...
Dietary fat and carbohydrate composition: Metabolic disease (with Marc A. Brown, Len H. Storlien, Linda C. Tapsell, Paul L. Else, Janine A. Higgins, and Ian L. Brown), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
Neurodevelopment, neurotransmitter imbalance and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia (with Teresa Du Bois), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive) (2008)
Presentations
Diagnostic-specific reductions in NMDA and mGlu5 glutamatergic receptors in schizophrenia (with K A. Newell, N Jimenez, A E. Geddes, E Frank, T M. Du Bois, and M Safadi), Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers (2012)
Abstract of a paper that presented at the Australian Neuroscience Society 32nd Annual meeting
Effects of dopamine D2 receptor partial agonist bifeprunox on body weight gain, food and water intake in male rats (with M B. De Santis and C Deng), Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers (2012)
An abstract of a poster presentation that presented at Australian Neuroscience Society 32nd Annual meeting.
Effects of olanzapine and betahistine on serotonin 5-HT2A receptor binding in the rat brain (with Jiamei Lian, N Pai, and C Deng), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive) (2012)
Olanzapine is widely used in treating multiple domains of schizophrenia symptoms through its binding profile...
Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 is reduced in schizophrenia subjects with comorbid major depression and unchanged following antipsychotic drug treatment (with N Jimenez, C Deng, and K Newell), Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers (2012)
Abstract of a paper that presented at the Australian Neuroscience Society 32nd Annual meeting.
MGluR5 and NMDA receptor density are reduced in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of schizoaffective but not schizophrenia patients (with Kelly Newell, Natalie Matosin, Elisabeth Frank, and Chao Deng), Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers (2012)
Abstract of a poster that presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry 67th Annual Meeting.