BMC Anesthesiology
August 26, 2026
Mao Li, Wen Wen, Xiang Wen
Postoperative depression and anxiety are common in elderly patients undergoing joint replacement surgery and may affect recovery. Esketamine has rapid antidepressant effects, but evidence for combined perioperative use remains limited, particularly in elderly patients undergoing joint replacement surgery. This study evaluated the association between combined perioperative esketamine exposure...
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
March 1, 2024
Wen Wen, A. C. Chang, H. Imamizu
The sense of agency, which refers to the subjective feeling of control, is an essential aspect of self-consciousness. We argue that distinguishing between the sensitivity and criterion of this feeling is important for discussing individual differences in the sense of agency and its connections with other cognitive functions.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
October 27, 2022
Phillip Xin Cheng, Shrey Grover, Wen Wen et al.
Understanding the neural mechanisms of conscious and unconscious experience is a major goal of fundamental and translational neuroscience. Here, we target the early visual cortex with a protocol of noninvasive, high-resolution alternating current stimulation while participants performed a delayed target-probe discrimination task and reveal dissociable mechanisms of mnemonic processing for...
The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association
September 11, 2019
Axel Cleeremans, Wen Wen
Starting from the radical idea that consciousness is something that the brain learns to do rather than a static property associated with some patterns of neural activity and not with others, I explore the links between theory of mind, self- awareness, and perceptual awareness. Considering first the link between self-awareness and perceptual awareness, I suggest, congruently with the...