Shengzi Zeng

Shengzi’s primary research interest focuses on understanding the impact of healthy and disrupted sleep on emotional memory processing, including the intrusive memory induced by lab-analogue trauma. Her long-term research goal centers around elucidating sleep’s role in processing the complex interaction of emotion and memory, eventually informing about the mechanism underlying related psychiatric/sleep disorders and improving mental health.

Education

  • BSocSc in Psychology | The University of Hong Kong

  • PhD in Psychology | The University of Hong Kong

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Harvard Medical School

Publications

  • Schäfer, S. K., Lüder, C. C., … , Zeng, S., ... , Wirth, B. E., & Sopp, M. R. (2023). To sleep or not to sleep, that is the question: A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effect of post-trauma sleep on intrusive memories of analog trauma. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 167(June). doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2023.104359

  • Zeng, S.#, Lin, X.#, Wang, J., Hu, X. (2021). Sleep’s short-term memory preservation and long-term affect depotentiation effect in emotional memory consolidation: behavioral and EEG evidence. SLEEP, June, 1-4, doi:10.1093/sleep/zsab155

  • Denis, D., Bottary, R., Cunningham, T. J., Zeng, S., Daffre, C., ... Pace-schott, E. F. (2021). Sleep Power Spectral Density and Spindles in PTSD and Their Relationship to Symptom Severity. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12(November), 1-14, doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.766647

  • Zeng, S., Lau, E.Y.Y., Li, S.X., Hu, X. (2020). Sleep differentially impacts involuntary and voluntary memories of lab-analogue traumatic experiences. Journal of Sleep Research, 30(3), 1–13. doi: 10.1111/jsr.13208

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Awards and Honors

  • 2020-2021 | Graduate Research Publication Award - Second Prize, Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong

  • 2020 | Abstract Second Prize, Guangdong Postgraduate Student Conference

  • 2020 | Outstanding Oral Presentation, 20th Annual Research Postgraduate Conference, The University of Hong Kong

  • 2019 | Outstanding Poster Presentation, 5th Annual Research Postgraduate Symposium, Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong

  • 2019 & 2020 | Conference Support for Research Postgraduate Students, The University of Hong Kong

  • 2018-2022 | Postgraduate Scholarships, The University of Hong Kong

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