Email

Junqian.Xu@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Radiology and Psychiatry
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Addresses

Smith Medical Research Bldg (BCMS) (Office)

Room: S104P
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-3175

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine

08/2010 - Saint Louis, Missouri United States

PhD from Washington University in Saint Louis

07/2007 - Saint Louis, Missouri United States

BS from Peking University

05/2000 - Beijing, China

Honors & Awards

Research Scholar Award

RSNA (05/2013)

Young Investigator Award

NARSAD (05/2014)

Professional Interests

• Imaging outcomes for low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) deep brain stimulation (DBS)
• Imaging biomarkers of neuroplasticity for spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation

Professional Statement

Dr. Junqian (Gordon) Xu received his PhD degree in physical chemistry, with a Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored predoctoral fellowship, from the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Lab (BMRL) at Washington University in St. Louis in 2007. He completed his National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) sponsored postdoctoral fellowship in neurology at Washington University School of Medicine. In 2010, Dr. Xu joined the WU-Minn consortium of the Human Connectome Project (HCP) at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), University of Minnesota to develop multiband echo-planar imaging (EPI) techniques for fast brain imaging. Dr. Xu joined the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2012 to establish a neuroimaging laboratory using advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques and relocated his research laboratory to Baylor College of Medicine in 2019.

Websites

Selected Publications

• "Angiogenic gene networks are dysregulated in opioid use disorder: evidence from multi-omics and imaging of postmortem human brain." Mol. Psychiatry. 2021; Pubmed PMID: 34385598
• "Formalin tissue fixation biases myelin-sensitive MRI." Magn Reson Med. 2019; Pubmed PMID: 31125149
• "Detailed mapping of human habenula resting-state functional connectivity." Neuroimage. 2019; Pubmed PMID: 31252057
• "Incorporating non-linear alignment and multi-compartmental modeling for improved human optic nerve diffusion imaging." Neuroimage. 2019; Pubmed PMID: 30930313

Projects

Human Connectome Project

Memberships

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)

Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)

Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

Skills

diffusion MRI, functional MRI, quantitative image analysis, single-voxel MEGA-PRESS

spinal cord, optic nerve, habenula