Professor WING Yun Kwok                    Professor (Clinical) & Chairman 榮潤國教授 MBChB, MRCP(UK), FRCPsych(UK), FHKAM(Psychiatry), FHKCPsych Fax: (852) 2647-5321 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  ORCID: 0000-0002-5745-5474

OTHER POSITIONS:

• Director of Sleep Assessment Unit
• Deputy Director of Centre for Clinical Trials on Chinese Medicine

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Sleep medicine
• Biological and cultural psychiatry
• Neuropsychiatry
• Transcultural psychopharmacology

CURRENT PROJECTS:

• Striatal dopamine transmission in individuals with isolated rapid eye movement sleep without atonia: a search for precursor biomarker for neurodegeneration
  孤立性快速眼動睡眠肌張力失弛緩的多巴胺轉運：尋找神經退化的生物學標記
• Gut microbiota across early stages of synucleinopathy: from high-risk relatives, REM sleep behavior disorder to early Parkinson’s disease
  早期突觸核蛋白變性疾病與腸道微生物：從高危親屬、快速眼動睡眠行為障礙到早期帕金遜
• Adjunctive light treatment in major depressive disorder among evening chronotype - A randomized controlled trial
  聯合光治療對夜晚型抑鬱症患者的療效：一個隨機對照研究
• Prodromal markers of synucelinopathy neurodegeneration in the first degree relatives of patients with psychiatric disorders comorbid with REM sleep behavior disorder
  突觸核蛋白變性相關神經退化的早期標記與精神障礙伴有快速眼動睡眠行為障礙的一級親屬的關係
• Can we prevent insomnia? A randomized controlled trial of brief cognitive behavioral Insomnia prevention program for high-risk adolescents
  我們是否可以預防失眠？一個針對高危青少年的認知行為治療隨機對照臨床試驗
  
  

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Rao S, Siu CO, Shi M, Zhang J, Lam MHB, Yu M, Wing YK, Waye MMY. Associations of Homer Scaffolding Protein 1 gene and psychological correlates with suicide attempts in Chinese: A pilot study of multifactorial risk model. Gene. 2018 Dec 30;679:382-388. 
2. Liu S, Wing YK, Hao Y, Li W, Zhang J, Zhang B. The associations of long-time mobile phone use with sleep disturbances and mental distress in technical college students: a prospective cohort study. Sleep. 2018 Nov 3. 
3. Liu Y, Zhang J, Li SX, Chan NY, Yu MWM, Lam SP, Chan JWY, Li AM, Wing YK. Excessive daytime sleepiness among children and adolescents: prevalence, correlates, and pubertal effects. Sleep Med. 2018 Sep 24;53:1-8. 
4. Rao S, Han X, Shi M, Siu CO, Waye MMY, Liu G, Wing YK. Associations of the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) with bipolar disorder and treatment response: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2018 Sep 11;89:214-226. 
5. Ren R, Covassin N, Yang L, Li Y, Zhang Y, Zhou J, Tan L, Li T, Li X, Wang Y, Zhang J, Wing YK, Li W, Somers VK, Tang X. Objective but Not Subjective Short Sleep Duration Is Associated With Hypertension in Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Hypertension. 2018 Sep;72(3):610-617. 
6. Li SX, Chan NY, Man Yu MW, Lam SP, Zhang J, Yan Chan JW, Li AM, Wing YK. Eveningness chronotype, insomnia symptoms, and emotional and behavioural problems in adolescents. Sleep Med. 2018 Jul;47:93-99.
7. Zhang J, Lam SP, Li SX, Liu Y, Chan JWY, Chan MHM, Ho CS, Li AM, Wing YK. Parental history of depression and higher basal salivary cortisol in unaffected child and adolescent offspring. J Affect Disord. 2018 Jul;234:207-213.
8. Zhou J, Zhang J, Lam SP, Chan JW, Mok V, Chan A, Li SX, Liu Y, Tang X, Yung WH, Wing YK. Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Predicts Neurodegeneration in Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder. Sleep. 2017 May 1;40(5). 
9. Li SX, Lam SP, Zhang J, Yu MW, Chan JW, Liu Y, Lam VK, Ho CK, Zhou J, Wing YK. A prospective, naturalistic follow-up study of treatment outcomes with clonazepam in rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder. Sleep Med. 2016 May;21:114-20.
10. Zhou J, Zhang J, Lam SP, Mok V, Chan A, Li SX, Liu Y, Tang X, Yung WH, Wing YK. Mortality and Its Risk Factors in Patients with Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder. Sleep. 2016 Aug 1;39(8):1543-50.