1. Yang AC , Hseu SS, Yien HW*. Prediction of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation by footprint analysis. Computers in Cardiology 28:401-404 (2001). [PDF]
2. Yang AC , Chang CH, Hseu SS, Yien HW* . Simulating healthy humans heart rate: a Markovian model. Computers in Cardiology 29:229-232 (2002). [PDF]
3. Yang AC , Hseu SS, Yien HW*, Goldberger AL, Peng CK. Linguistic analysis of human heartbeats using frequency and rank order statistics. Physical Review Letters 90:108103 (2003). [PDF]
4. Novak V*, Yang AC , Lepicovsky L, Goldberger AL, Lipsitz LA, Peng CK. Multimodal pressure-flow method to assess dynamics of cerebral autoregulation in stroke and hypertension. BioMedical Engineering Online 3:39 (2004). [PDF]
5. Peng CK*, Yang AC , Goldberger AL. Statistical physics approach to categorize biologic signals: from heart rate dynamics to DNA sequences. Chaos 17: 015115 (2007). [PDF]
6. Cheng D, Tsai SJ, Hong CJ, Yang AC .* Reduced physiologic complexity of heart rate dynamics in healthy elderly men with APOE ε4 allele. PLoS ONE 4(11):e7733 (2009). [PDF]
7. Yang AC *, Huang NE, Peng CK, Tsai SJ.* Do seasons have an influence on the incidence of depression? The use of an internet search engine query data as a proxy of human affect. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13728 (2010). [PDF]
8. Yang AC *, Tsai SJ, Huang NE. Decomposing the association of completed suicide with air pollution, weather, and unemployment data at different time scales. Journal of Affective Disorders 129:275-281 (2011). [PDF]
9. Yang AC *, Tsai SJ, Yang CH, Kuo CH, Chen TJ, Hong CJ.* Reduced physiologic complexity is associated with poor sleep in patients with major depression and primary insomnia. Journal of Affective Disorders 131:179-185 (2011 ). [PDF]
10. Yang AC , Fuh JL, Huang NE, Peng CK, Wang SJ.* Temporal associations between weather and headache: analysis by empirical mode decomposition. PLoS ONE 6(1):e14612 (2011). [PDF]
11. Yang AC*, Tsai SJ*, Hong CJ, Wang C, Chen TJ, Liou YJ, Peng CK. Clustering heart rate dynamics is associated with β-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms: analysis by information-based similarity index. PLoS ONE 6(5): e19232 (2011 ). [PDF]
12. Yang AC *, Tsai SJ, Yang CH, Shia BC, Fuh JL, Wang SJ, Peng CK, Huang NE. Suicide and media reporting: a longitudinal and spatial analysis. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 48(3):427- 35 (2013). [Abstract]
13. Yang AC , Huang CC, Yeh HL, Liu ME, Hong CJ, Tu PC, Chen JF, Huang NE, Peng CK, Lin CP*, Tsai SJ*. Complexity of spontaneous BOLD activity in default mode network is correlated to cognitive Function in normal male elderly: a multiscale entropy analysis. Neurobiology of Aging 34(2):428-38 (2013). [PDF]
14. Yang AC *, Yang CH, Hong CJ, Liou YJ, Shia BC, Peng CK, Huang NE, Tsai SJ. Effect of age, sex, index admission, and predominant polarity on the seasonality of acute admissions for bipolar disorder: a population-based study. Chronobiology International 30(4):478-85 (2013). [Abstract]
15. Ko FY, Yang AC , Tsai SJ, Zhou Y, Xu LM*. Physiologic and laboratory correlates of depression, anxiety, and poor sleep in liver cirrhosis. BMC Gastroenterology 13:18 (2013). [PDF]
16. Yang AC , Tsai SJ*. Complexity of mental illness: A new research dimension. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 45:251-2 (2013). [PDF]
17. Yang AC *, Tsai SJ. Is mental illness complex? From behavior to brain. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 45:253-7 (2013). [Abstract]
18. Yang AC, Wang SJ, Lai KL, Tsai CF, Yang CH, Hwang JP, Lo MT, Huang NE, Peng CK, Fuh JL*. Cognitive and neuropsychiatric correlates of EEG dynamic complexity in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 47:52-61 (2013) [ Abstract ].
19. Chung MS, Yang AC (co-first author), Lin YC, Lin CN, Chang FR, Shen SH, Ouyang WC, Loh EW, Chiu HJ*. Association of altered cardiac autonomic function with psychopathology and metabolic profiles in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research 30;210(3):710-5 (2013). [Abstract]
20. Yang AC, Huang CC, Liu ME, Liou YJ, Hong CJ, Lo MT, Huang NE, Peng CK, Lin CP, Tsai SJ*. The APOE ε4 allele affects complexity and functional connectivity of resting brain activity in healthy adults. Human Brain Mapping 35;7:3238-48 (2014). [Full text]
21. Liang WK, Lo MT, Yang AC, Peng CK, Cheng SK, Tseng P, Juan CH. Revealing the brain's adaptability and the transcranial direct current stimulation facilitating effect in inhibitory control by multiscale entropy. Neuroimage 90; 218-34 (2014). [Abstract]
22. Yang AC*, Hong CJ, Liou YJ, Huang KL, Huang CC, Liu ME, Lo MT, Huang NE, Peng CK, Lin CP, Tsai SJ. Decreased resting-state brain activity complexity in schizophrenia characterized by both increased regularity and randomness. Human Brain Mapping 36(6):2174-86 (2015). [Full text]
23. Huang NE, Hu K, Yang AC, Chang HC, Jia D, Liang WK, Yeh JR, Kao CL, Juan CH, Peng CK, Meijer JH, Wang YH, Long SR, Wu Z. On Holo-Hilbert spectral analysis: a full informational spectral representation for nonlinear and non-stationary data. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2016;374(2065). [Full text]
24. Yang AC, Tsai SJ, Lin CP, Peng CK. A Strategy to Reduce Bias of Entropy Estimates in fMRI Signal. Proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Orlando, FL (2016). [PDF]
25. Hager B, Yang AC (Co-First Author), Brady R, Meda S, Clementz B, Pearlson GD, Sweeney JA, Tamminga C, Keshavan M. Neural complexity as a potential translational biomarker for psychosis. J Affect Disord. S0165-0327(16)30799-6 (2016). [Abstract]