Dr. Yu Tao specializes in the assessment and integrated intervention of children's emotional and cognitive difficulties, combining counseling, learning training and medication.
Dr. Yu graduated from the West China Center of Medical Sciences, Sichuan University, and completed postdoctoral research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and King's College London (KCL). He undertook visiting-scholar research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in the United States and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
He has served as an Assistant Researcher at the Bio-X Institutes of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a dual-appointed PI at the Shanghai Mental Health Center, and a member of Academician He Lin's research team.
Dr. Yu provides assessment and intervention for children's emotional and cognitive concerns, including anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, self-harm, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hallucinations and delusions, dyscalculia, memory difficulties, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and tic disorders. He offers psychological counseling, learning-ability training and comprehensive medication-based intervention plans.
Dr. Yu has led or participated in numerous high-level research projects, including the National Key R&D Program "Precision Medicine" initiative, major chronic non-communicable disease prevention and control studies, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission maternal and child health collaborative innovation program, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University cross-disciplinary key projects. He has published more than 50 SCI papers in leading journals such as the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) and JAMA Psychiatry, and has co-authored three books.
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