Education

Profile

Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. Professor Tang completed his medical training at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an academic staff since 1999. His main research area is Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Research Interest

My main research area is the psychiatric morbidity in stroke, namely dementia, cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety, apathy, fatigue, emotional incontinence, suicidality, insomnia, pain, and quality of life.

Professional Activities:

Professional Experience

Professional Societies

Editorship

1. BMC Geriatrics (Associate editor, Aug 2009 - present)
2. Annuals of General Psychiatry (Oct 2013 – presnt)
3. Depression Research and Treatment (July 2009 - present)
4. The East Asian Archives of Psychiatry (Dec 2011 - present)

Honors and Awards

Publications

1. Tang WK (60%), Lau CG, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Apathy and Health-related Quality of Life in Stroke. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (accepted in Oct 2013, P137799)
2. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Liang HJ, Chu CCW, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Cerebral microbleeds as a predictor of 1-year outcome of poststroke depression. Stroke (accepted in Oct 2013, P138972)
3. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Lu JY, Liang HJ, Chu CCW, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Frontal infarcts and anxiety in stroke. Stroke2012 May;43(5):1426-8. (citations: 0)
4. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Lu JY, Chu CCW, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Cerebral microbleeds and depression in lacunar stroke. Stroke2011;42(9):2443-6. (citations: 6)  
5. Tang WK (60%), Chan SSM, Chiu HF, Ungvari GS, Wong KS, KWOK TCY, Mok V, Wong KT, Richards PS, Ahuja AT. Frequency and Clinical Determinants of Poststroke Dementia in Chinese.Stroke 2004;35(4):930-5. (citations: 25)
6. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Lu JY, Chu CCW, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS.  White Matter Hyperintensities in Poststroke Depression: a Case-Control Study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2010; 81(12):1312-5. (citations: 5)
7. Tang WK (60%), Y. K. Chen, J. Y. Lu, V.C.T. Mok, Y. T. Xiang, G. S. Ungvari, A. T. Ahuja, K. S. Wong. Microbleeds and Post-stroke Emotional lability. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2009; 80:1082-6. (citations: 6)
8. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Mok V, Chu WC, Ungvari GS, Ahuja AT, Wong KS. Acute Basal Ganglia Infarcts in Poststroke Fatigue: an MRI study. Journal of Neurology 2010;257(2):178-82. (citations: 9)
9. Tang WK (60%), Chan SSM, Chiu HFK, Ungvari GS, Wong KS, Kwok TCY, Mok V, Wong KT, Richards PS, Ahuja AT. Frequency and determinants of prestroke dementia in a Chinese cohort. Journal of Neurology 2004;251(5):604-8. (citations: 18)
10. Tang WK (60%). Chan SS. Chiu HF. Ungvari GS. Wong KS. Kwok TC. Emotional incontinence in Chinese stroke patients--diagnosis, frequency, and clinical and radiological correlates. Journal of Neurology 2004;251(7):865-9. (citations: 13)
11. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Lu JY, Chu WCW, Mok V, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Cerebral microbleeds and symptom severity of poststroke depression: a magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Affective Disorder2011;129(1):354-8. (citations: 4)
12. Tang WK (60%), Chan SS, Chiu HF, Wong KS, Kwok TC, Mok V, Ungvari GS. Can the Geriatric Depression Scale detect poststroke depression in Chinese elderly? Journal of Affective Disorders 2004;81(2):153-6. (citations: 25)
13. Tang WK (60%), Liu XX, Chen YK, Abrigo J, Chu WCW, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Cerebral Microbleeds and Fatigue in Stroke. European Neurology (Accepted in Aug 2013, P133575)
14. Tang WK (60%), Lau GC, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Impact of Anxiety on Health-related Quality of Life after Stroke: a cross sectional study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Accepted in July 2013, P136793).
15. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Liang HJ, Chu WCW, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Location of infarcts and apathy in ischemic stroke. Cerebrovascular Diseases (2013;35:566-571, July, P130144).
16. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Mok VCT, Chu WCW, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Frontal Lobe Atrophy in Poststroke Depression. Stroke Research and Treatment (Accepted in Jan 2013, P133882).
17. Tang WK (60%), Liang HJ, Chu WCW, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Association between High Serum Total Bilirubin Levels and Poststroke Depression. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2013;67(4):259-264.
18. Tang WK (60%), Liang HJ, Chen YK, Ahuja AT, Chu WCW, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. White Matter Hyperintensities and Quality of Life in Acute Lacunar Stroke. Neurological Sciences (EPub on 18 Dec 2012, P129406)
19. Tang WK (60%), H. J. Liang, V. C. T. Mok, Ungvari GS, K. S. Wong. Is pain associated with suicidality in stroke? Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2013;94(5):863-866.
20. Tang WK (60%), Liang HJ, Chen YK, Chu CCW, Abrigo J, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Poststroke Fatigue is associated with caudate infarcts. Journal of Neurological Sciences 2013;324(1-2):131-135.(citations: 0)
21. Chen YK, Xiao WM, Wang DF, Lin S, Chu CCW, Mok VCT, Wong KS, Ungvari GS, Wong KS, Tang WK (10%). Atrophy of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex is Associated with Poor Performance in Verbal Fluency in Elderly Poststroke Women. Neural Regeneration Research 2013;8(4):346-356. (citations: 0)
22. Tang (60%), Tang N, Liao CD, Liang HJ, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Serotonin Receptor 2C Gene Polymorphism in Chinese Patients with Poststroke Depression. Genetics and Molecular Research 2013;8(4):346-356
23. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Lu JY, Mok VCT, Chu CCW, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Frontal Lobe Atrophy in Depression after Stroke. Stroke Research and Treatment 2013, Article ID 424769, 4 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/424769.
24. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Liang HJ, Chu CCW, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Cerebral microbleeds and suicidality in stroke. Psychosomatics2012;53(5):439-45. (citations: 0)
25. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Lu JY, Wong A, Mok V, Chu WCW, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Absence of cerebral microbleeds predicts reversion of vascular cognitive impairment no dementia in stroke. International Journal of Stroke 2011;6(6):498-505. (citations: 2)
26. Mok V, Xiong Y, Wong KK, Wong A, Schmidt R, Chu WWC, Hu X, Leung EYL, Chen S,  Chen Y, Tang WK (10%),  Chen X,   Ho CL,  Wong KS, Wong STC.  Predictors for cognitive decline in patients with confluent white matter hyperintensities. Alzheimer's and Dementia 2012;8(5):S96-103.
27. Lau CG, Tang WK (30%), Wong KS, Mok VCT, Ungvari GS. Predictors of the depressive symptomatology in family caregivers of stroke patients in Hong Kong. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2012;19(40):285-93. (citations: 0)
28. Tang WK (60%), J. Y. Lu, H. J. Liang, T.T. Chan, V. C. T. Mok, Ungvari GS, K. S. Wong. Is insomnia associated with suicidality in stroke? Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation2011;92(8):1336-1338. (citations: 1)
29. Chen YK, Wong KS, MOK V, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (30%)*. Health-related quality of life in patients with poststroke emotional incontinence. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2011;92(10):1659-62. (citations: 0)
30. Tang WK (60%), Lu JY, Mok V, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Is fatigue associated with suicidality in stroke? Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2011;92(8):1336-1338. (citations: 1)
31. Tang WK (60%), Chen YK, Lau J, Ahjua AT, Chu WCW, Mok V, Ungvari GS, Xiang YT, Wong KS. Cerebral Microbleeds and Quality of Life in Acute Ischemic Stroke. Neurological Sciences 2011;32(3):449-454. (citations: 1)
32. Tang WK (60%), Lau CG, Mok V, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Burden of Chinese Stroke Family Caregivers: the Hong Kong Experience. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2011; 92(9):1462-1467. (citations: 0)
33. Xiong YY, Wong A, Mok VC, Tang WK (10%), Lam WW, Kwok TC, Chu WC, Chan AY, Wong LK. Frequency and predictors of proxy-confirmed post-stroke cognitive complaints in lacunar stroke patients without major depression. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2011;26:1144-51. (citations: 0)
34. Tang WK (60%), LU JY, Chen YK, Chu WCW, Mok V, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Association of Frontal Subcortical Circuits Infarcts in Poststroke Depression: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of 591 Chinese Patients with Ischemic Stroke. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2011;24(1):44-49. (citations: 2)
35. Mok V, Wong KK, Xiong Y, Wong A, Schmidt R, Chu W, Hu X, Leung EY, Chen S, Chen Y, Tang WK (10%), Chen X, Ho CL, Wong KS, Wong ST. Cortical and frontal atrophy are associated with cognitive impairment in age-related confluent white-matter lesion. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2011;82:52-57. (citations: 6)
36. Chen YK, Tang WK (30%), Xiao WM, Wong KS, Mok CTV. Risk factors of falls in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Guangdong Medical Journal. 2011;32(9):1117-1119.
37. Chen Yang-Kun, Lu Jin-Yan, Mok Vincent CT, Ungvari GS, Chu Winnie CW, Wong Ka Sing, Tang WK (10%)*. Clinical and radiological correlates of insomnia symptoms in ischemic stroke patients. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2011; 26(5):451-457. (citations: 2)
38. Tang WK (60%), Lu JY, Chen KY, Mok V, Ungvari GS, Wong KS. Is Fatigue Associated with Short-Term Health-Related Quality of Life in Stroke? Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2010;91(10):1511-1515. (citations: 3)
39. Tang WK (60%), Chen KY, Lu JY, Chu WCW, Wong A, Mok V, Wong KS, Ungvari GS. Emotional Incontinence in Chinese Stroke Patients. American Journal of Clinical Neurology April 2010. (citations: 13)
40. Chen YK, Lu J, Wong KS, Mok V, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (10%)*. Health-related Quality of Life in the Family Caregivers of Stroke Survivors. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. 2010;33(2):232-237. (citations: 0)
41. Fu JH, Wong K, Mok V, Hu X, Chen YK, Tang WK (10%), Chen XY, Wong A, Chu W, Wong KS, Wong S. Neuroimaging predictors for depressive symptoms in cerebral small vessel disease. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2010;25(10):1039-1043. (citations: 1)
42. Mok V, Wong A, Wong K, Chu WCW, Xiong Y, Chan AYY, Kwok TCY, Hu X, Lee WK, Tang WK (10%), Wong KL, Wong S. Executive Dysfunction and Left Frontal White Matter Hyperintensities Are Correlated with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Stroke Patients with Confluent White Matter Hyperintensities. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2010;30(3):254-260. (citations: 5)
43. Chen, YK, Chen XY, Xiao W, Mok V, Wong KS, Tang WK (30%)*. Frontal lobe atrophy is associated with small vessel disease in ischemic stroke patients. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 2009; 111(10):852-857. (citations: 3)
44. Tang WK (60%), Chen Y, Lam WW, Mok V, Wong A, Ungvari GS, Xiang YT, Wong KS. Emotional Incontinence and Executive Function in Ischemic Stroke: A Case-Controlled Study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2009;15(1):62-8. (citations: 8)
45. Chen Y, Chen X, Mok VC, Lam WW, Wong KS, Tang WK (30%)*. Poststroke Depression in Patients with Small Subcortical Infarcts. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 2009;111(3):256-260. (citations: 3)
46. 陳仰昆, 鄧偉光 (40%). 腦卒中后情感失禁. 國際精神病學雜誌 (Journal of International Psychiatry) 2008; 35:203 – 205.
47. Lo R, Cheng JO, Wong EM, Tang WK (10%), Wong LK, Woo J, Kwok T. Handicap and Its Determinants of Change in Stroke Survivors: One-Year Follow-Up Study. Stroke. 2008; 39(1):148-153. (citations: 25)
48. Mok VC, Liu T, Lam WW, Wong A, Hu X, Guo L, Chen XY,  Tang WK (10%), Wong KS, Wong S. Neuroimaging predictors for cognitive impairment in confluent white matter lesion: Volumetric analyses of 99 brain regions. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders2008;25(1):67-73. (citations: 11)
49. Tang WK (60%), Wong E, Chiu HF, Ungvari GS. Rasch analysis of the scoring scheme of the HADS Depression subscale in Chinese stroke patients. Psychiatry Research 2007; 150(1):97-103. (citations: 9)
50. Wong A, Mok VC, Tang WK (15%), Lam WW, Wong KS. Comparing Mattis Dementia Rating Scale - Initiation / Perseveration subset and Frontal Assessment Battery in stroke associated with small vessel disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2007; 29(2):160-169. (citations: 6)
51. Tang WK. Commentary on ‘Screening for depression and anxiety after stroke: a review of potential measures for routine screening” International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation 2006; 13(9): 406
52. Tang WK (60%), Chan SS, Chiu HF, Ungvari GS, Wong KS, Kwok TC, Mok V, Wong KT, Richards PS, Ahuja AT. Frequency and clinical determinants of poststroke cognitive impairment in non-demented stroke patients. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2006; 19(2):65-71. (citations: 8)
53. Kwok T, Lo RS, Wong E, Tang WK (20%), Mok V, Wong KS. Quality of Life of Stroke Survivors: 1-year Follow-up Study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2006; 87(9):1177-1182. (citations: 35)
54. Tang WK (60%), Mok V, Chan SS, Chiu HF, Wong KS, Kwok TC, Lam WW, Ungvari GS. Screening of Dementia in Stroke Patients with Lacunar Infarcts: Comparison of the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale and the Mini-Mental State Examination. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2005;18(1):3-7. (citations: 5)
55. Tang WK (60%), Chan SS, Chiu HF, Ungvari GS, Wong KS, Kwok T, Mok V, Wong KT, Richards PS, Ahuja AT. Poststroke Depression in Chinese Patients: frequency, psychosocial, clinical and radiological determinants. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 2005; 18(1):45-51. (citations: 26)
56. Mok V, Wong A, Tang WK (30%), Lam WW, Fan YH, Richards PS, Wong KT, Ahuja AT, Wong KS. Determinants of prestroke cognitive impairment in stroke associated with small vessel disease. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2005; 20(4):225-230. (citations: 7)
57. Tang WK (60%), Wong E, Chan SS, Chiu HF, Wong KS, Kwok TC, Mok V, Ungvari GS. The scoring scheme of the IQCODE needs revision: results of Rasch analysis. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders2004;18(3-4):250-256. (citations: 5)
58. Tang WK (60%), Chan SS, Chiu HF, Ungvari GS, Wong KS, Kwok TC, Mok V, Wong KT, Richards PS, Ahuja AT. Impact of applying NINDS-AIREN criteria of probable vascular dementia to clinical and radiological characteristics of a stroke cohort with dementia characteristics of a stroke cohort with dementia. Cerebrovascular Diseases 2004;18(2):98-103. (citations: 7)
59. Tang WK (60%), Ungvari GS, Chiu HF, Sze KH, Yu AC, Leung TL. Screening for post-stroke depression in Chinese older adults using the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale. Ageing and Mental Health 2004; 8(5):397-399 (citations: 3)
60. Tang WK (60%), Ungvari GS, Chiu HF, Sze KH. Detecting Depression in Chinese Stroke Patients: A Pilot Study Comparing Four Screening Instruments. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 2004; 34(2):155-163. (citations: 15)
61. Wen HM, Mok V, Fan YH, Lam WW, Tang WK (10%), Wong A, Huang RX, Wong KS. Effect of white matter changes on cognitive impairment in patients with lacunar infarcts. Stroke 2004; 35(8):1826-1830. (citations: 55)
62. Mok V, Wong A, Lam WW, Fan YH, Tang WK (10%), Kwok T, Hui AC, Wong KS. Cognitive impairment and functional outcome after stroke associated with small vessel disease.Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2004;75(4):560-566. (citations: 54)
63. Tang WK (60%), Ungvari GS, Chiu HF, Sze KH, Chan AS, Leung TL. Screening for post-stroke depression in a Hong Kong rehabilitation hospital: the impact of different raters.Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases2003; 191(7):474-6. (citations: 3)
64. Tang WK (60%), Chan SS, Chiu HF, Wong KS, Kwok TC, Mok V, Ungvari GS. Can IQCODE detect poststroke dementia? International Journal of geriatric Psychiatry 2003; 18(8):706-710. (citations: 10)
65. Mok V, Tang WK (30%), Wen HM, Wong A, Baum L, Hui CF, Fan YH, Ahuja AT, Lam WW, Wong KS. Prestroke cognitive impairment in stroke associated with small vessel disease. Hong Kong Medical Journal2003; 9 (suppl 2):8.
66. Tang WK (60%), Ungvari GS, Chiu HF, Sze KH. Psychiatric morbidity in first-ever stroke patients in Hong Kong: a pilot study in a rehabilitation unit. Australian New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2002; 36(4):544-549. (citations: 22)

Psychiatric Morbidity in Chronic Lung Diseases, Parkinson’s disease and Epilepsy

67. Tang WK (60%), Yip WC, M Lum, Xiang YT, Lee E, Ungvari GS. Caregiving burden and quality of life of pneumoconiosis caregivers in Hong Kong. Heart & Lung 2011;40(5):412-419. (citations: 0)  
68. Lee E, Lum CM, Xiang YT, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (30%)*. Psychosocial condition of family caregivers of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Hong Kong. East Asian Archives of Psychiatry 2010;20(4);180-5.
69. Tang WK (60%), Wong E, Chiu HF, Lum CM, Ungvari GS. Examining item bias in the Anxiety Subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. 2008; 17(2):104-110. (citations: 5)
70. Tang WK (60%), Lum CM, Ng KY, Ungvari GS, Chiu HF. Prevalence and Correlates of Depression in Chinese Elderly Patients with Pneumoconiosis. Aging & Mental Health 2006; 10(2):177-181. (citations: 5)
71. Tang W.K. (60%), Lum CM, Ungvari GS, Chiu HF. Health-Related Quality of Life in Community Dwelling Men with Pneumoconiosis. Respiration 2006; 73(2):203-208. (citations: 4)
72. Tang WK (60%), Wong E, Chiu HF, Lum CM, Ungvari GS. The Geriatric Depression Scale should be shortened: results of Rasch analysis. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2005; 20(8):783-789. (citations: 25)
73. Tang WK (60%), Lu JY, Ungvari GS, Wong KS, Kwan P. Anxiety symptoms in patients with frontal lobe epilepsy versus generalized epilepsy. Seizure 2012 June 21:457-460. (citations: 0)
74. Auyeung M, Tsoi TH, Tang WK (15%), Cheung CM, Lee CN, Li R, Yeung E. Impulse control disorders in Chinese Parkinson's disease patients: The effect of ergot derived dopamine agonist. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders. 2011; 17(8):635-637. (citations: 1)
75. Chen YK, Tang WK (25%), Xiao WM, Wong KS, Mok CTV. Risk factors of falls in patients with Parkinson's disease. Guangdong Medical Journal 2011; 32 (9):1117-1119.
76. Chen YK,  Lu JY,  Chan DML, Mok V, Auyeung M, Wong KS, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (20%)*. Anxiety Disorders in Chinese Patients with Parkinson’s Disease. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 2010;40(1):97-107. (citations: 2)
77. Chan DML, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS, Wong KS, Mok V, Yeung HM,  Auyeung M. Prevalence of depression in Chinese People with Parkinson’s disease patients. Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry 2006; 16:137-43.

Electroconvulsive Therapy

78. Tang WK (60%), Ungvari GS. Efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: a prospective, open trial. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 2003; 27(3):373-379. (citations: 18)
79. Tang WK (60%), Ungvari GS, Leung HC. Effect of piracetam on ECT-induced cognitive disturbances: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind study Journal of ECT 2002; 18(3):130-137. (citations: 4)
80. Tang WK (60%), Ungavri GS, Chan GWL. Patients’ and their relatives’ knowledge of, experience with, attitude towards, and satisfaction with Electroconvulsive Therapy in Hong Kong, China. Journal of ECT2002; 18(4):207-212. (citations: 20)
81. Tang WK (60%), Ungvari GS.  Efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy combined with antipsychotic medication in treatment resistant schizophrenia: a prospective open trial. Journal of ECT 2002; 18(2):90-94. (citations: 14)
82. Tang WK (60%). Ungvari GS. ECT in rehabilitation; the Hong Kong experience. Psychiatric Services 2001; 52(3):303-306. (citations: 3)
83. Tang WK (60%), Ungvari GS. Asystole during electroconvulsive therapy: a case report. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2001; 35(3):382-385. (citations: 7)
84. Tang WK (60%), Ungvari GS. Continuation and Maintenance electroconvulsive therapy: a selective review. Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry 1999; 9(2):6-12

Schizophrenia

85. Zeng JY, An FR, Xiang YT, Qi YK, Ungvari GS, Newhouse R, Yu DSF, Lai KYC, Yu LY, Ding YM, Tang WK (5%), Wu PP, Hou ZJ, Chiu FK. Frequency and Risk Factors of Workplace Violence on Psychiatric Nurses and Its Impact on Their Quality of Life in China. Psychiatry Research (Accepted on 16 Jun 2013, P130368)
86. Au RWC, Ungvari GS, Lee E, Man D, Shum D, Xiang YT, Tang WK (10%). Prospective Memory Impairment and its Implications for Community Living Skills in Bipolar Disorder. Bipolar Disorders. (Accepted on 17 May 2013, P131417)
87. Zhou FC, Xiang YT, Wang CY, Dickerson F, Kreyenbuhl J, Ungvari GS,  Au RWC, Zhou JJ, Zhou Y, Shum D, Man D, Lai KYC, Tang WK (5%), Yu X, Chiu HFK. Predictive value of prospective memory for remission in first-episode schizophrenia. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care. (Accepted on 23 Apr 2013, P132431])
88. Xhou JJ, Xiang YT, Wang CY, Zhou FC, Ungvari GS, Dickerson F, Chiu HFK, Lai KYC, Shum DHK, Lee E, Au RWC, Tang WK (5%), Man D. Prospective memory deficits in euthymic bipolar disorder patients: a preliminary study. Asia-Pacific Psychiatry. (Accepted on 10 Oct 2012, P120691)
89. Au RWC, Shum D, Man D, Lee E, Xiang YT, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (10%). Assessment of prospective memory in schizophrenia using the Chinese version of Cambridge Prospective Memory Test: A controlled study. Asia Pacific Psychiatry (Epub on 31 Jul 2012, P129007)
90. Wang Y, Xiang YT, Wang C, Chiu HF, Zhao J, Chen Q, Chan SS, Lee E, Tang WK(10%), Gabor S. Insight in Chinese schizophrenia patients: a 12-month-follow-up. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Nursing 2011;18(9):751-757. (citations: 0)
91. Xiang YT, Shum D, Chiu HF, Tang WK (10%), Ungvari GS. Association of demographic characteristics, symptomatology, retrospective and prospective memory, executive functioning and intelligence with social functioning in schizophrenia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2010; 44(12):1112-7. (citations: 2)
92. Xiang YT, Shum D, Chiu HF, Tang WK (10%), Ungvari GS. Independent association of prospective memory with retrospective memory and intelligence in schizophrenia: A controlled study. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 2010;25(7):680-684. (citations: 2)
93. Lee E, Xiang YT, Man D, Au R, Shum D, Tang WK (10%), Chiu HF, Ungvari GS. Prospective memory deficits in patients with bipolar disorder: A preliminary study. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 2010;25(7):640-647. (citations: 1)
94. Wang CY, Xiang YT, Cai ZJ, Weng YZ, Bo QJ, Zhao JP, Liu TQ, Wang GH, Weng AM, Zhang HY, Chen DF, Tang WK (10%), Ungvari GS. Risperidone maintenance treatment in schizophrenia: a randomized, controlled trial. American Journal of Psychiatry 2010; 167(6):676-685. (citations: 17)
95. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (10%), Chan SS, Wang CY, Han B, Ungvari GS. Gender differences in socio-demographic and clinical characteristic and the quality of life of Chinese schizophrenia patients. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2010 May;44(5):450-455. (citations: 2)
96. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS. Long-term use of mood stabilizers and its impact on the quality of life of Chinese schizophrenia patients. Clinical Neuropharmacology 2009;32(1):16-21. (citations: 2)
97. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Lai KY, Ungvari GS. Prevalence and correlates of insomnia and its impact on quality of life in Chinese schizophrenia patients. Sleep 2009; 32(1):105-109. (citations: 6)
98. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS. Socio-demographic and clinical correlates of lifetime suicide attempts and their impact on quality of life in Chinese schizophrenia patients. Journal of Psychiatric Research 2008; 42(6):495-502. (citations: 13)
99. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS. Clinical and social correlates of the use of depot antipsychotic drugs for outpatients with schizophrenia in China. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2008; 46(5):245-251. (citations: 0)
100. Ungvari GS, Xiang YT, Tang WK (20%), Shum D. Prospective memory and its correlates and predictors in schizophrenia: an extension of previous findings. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2008; 23(5):613-622. (citations: 9)
101. Xiang YT, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS. Impact of the priority follow-up system on quality of life in Chinese schizophrenia patients. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2008; 42(2):154-158. (citations: 0)
102. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS. Subjective quality of life in outpatients with schizophrenia in Hong Kong and Beijing: relationship to socio-demographic and clinical factors. Quality of Life Research 2008; 17(1):27-36. (citations: 13)
103. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS. Clinical and social determinants of long-term use of benzodiazepines and its impact on quality of life of Chinese schizophrenia patients. Pharmacopsychiatry 2007; 40(6):269-274. (citations: 7)
104. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK(15%), Ungvari GS. Impact of socio-demographic and clinical factors on subjective quality of life in schizophrenia patients in Beijing, China. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 2007; 195(10):853-856. (citations: 5)
105. Wong E, Ungvari GS, Leung SK, Tang WK (20%)*. Rating catatonia in patients with chronic schizophrenia: Rasch analysis of the Bush-Francis Catatonia Rating Scale. Internal Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 2007; 16(3):161-170. (citations: 7)
106. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS. Exploring the clinical and social determinants of prescribing anticholinergic medication for Chinese patients with schizophrenia. Human Psychopharmacology 2007; 22(3):173-180. (citations: 6)
107. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS. Quality of life of Chinese schizophrenia outpatients in Hong Kong: relationship to sociodemographic factors and symptomatology. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2007; 41(5):442-449. (citations: 21)
108. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK(10%), Ungvari GS, Gerevich J. Clinical and social determinants of psychotropic drug prescription for schizophrenia outpatients in China. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 2007; 31(3):756-760. (citations: 4)
109. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS. Clinical and social determinants of antipsychotic polypharmacy for Chinese patients with schizophrenia. Pharmacopsychiatry 2007; 40(2):47-52. (citations: 19)
110. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Li WY, Gao L, Chen GL, Xie L, Chang YL, Tang WK (10%), Ungvari GS. Efficacy of the Community Re-Entry Module for patients with schizophrenia in Beijing, China: outcome at 2-year follow up. British Journal of Psychiatry2007; 190:49-56. (citations: 17)
111. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (15%), Ungvari GS. Clinical correlates of clozapine prescription for schizophrenia in China. Human Psychopharmacology 2007; 22:17-25. (citations: 12)
112. Xiang YT, Weng YZ, Leung CM, Tang WK (10%), Ungvari GS. Clinical and social determinants of use of depot antipsychotics for patients with schizophrenia in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry 2007; 16:71-75. (citations: 0)
113. Xiang Y, Weng Y, Li W, Gao L, Chen G, Xie L, Tang WK (10%), Ungvari GS , Chang Y. Training Patients with Schizophrenia in Community Re-Entry Module: a Controlled Study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2006; 41(6):464-469. (citations: 10)
114. Tang WK (60%), Hui M, Ungvari GS, Leung CM. Cryptococcal meningitis mimicking primary mania in a young female. General Hospital Psychiatry2005; 27(4):301-303. (citations: 1)
115. Shum D, Ungvari G, Tang WK (20%), Leung JP. Performance of Patients with Schizophrenia patients on time-, event-, and activity-based prospective memory tasks" Schizophrenia Bulletin 2004;30(4):693-701. (citations: 34)
116. Tang WK (60%), Sun FCS, Ungvari GS, O’Donnell D. Oral health of psychiatric in-patients in Hong Kong.  International Journal of Social Psychiatry2004; 50(2):186-191. (citations: 22)
117. Bitter I, Chou JCY, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (20%), Xiang Z, Twanami A, Gaszner P. Prescribing for inpatients with schizophrenia: An international multi-centre comparative study. Pharmacopsychiatry 2003; 36(4):143-149. (citations: 23)
118. Ungvari GS, Yiu GC, Yip KC, Ng FS, Tang WK (30%), Chiu Fung Kum. The pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia in Chinese patients: a comparison of prescription patterns between 1996-1999. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2002; 54:437-444. (citations: 13)
119. Ungvari GS, Tang WK (40%), Wong WK, Chiu HF. Distant visual acuity in chronic psychiatric patients. A pilot study. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology 2002; 37(10):488-491. (citations: 1)
120. Lam LCW, Garcia-Barcelo MM, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (10%), Lam VKL, Kwong SL, Lau BST, Kwong PPK, Waye MMY, Chiu HFK. Cytochrome P450 2D6 genotyping and association with tardive dyskinesia in Chinese schizophrenia patients. Pharmacopsychiatry 2001; 34(6):238-241. (citations: 20)
121. Garcia-Barcelo MM. Lam LCW, Ungvari GS, Lam VKL, Tang WK (10%). Dopamine D3 receptor gene and tardive dyskinesia in Chinese schizophrenic patients. Journal of Neural Transmission 2001; 108(6):671-677 (citations: 36)
122. Shum D, Leung JP, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (10%). Schizophrenia and prospective memory: A new direction for clinical practice and research? Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry 2001; 11:23-26.
123. Ungvari GS, Leung CM, Tang WK (10%).  Reactive psychosis: a classical category nearing extinction?  Review Series Psychiatry (Stockholm) 2001;3:20-21.
124. Ungvari GS, Tang WK, (10%), Ng FS. The pharmacological treatment of catatonia: an overview. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 2001; 251(suppl 1):131-134 (citations: 5)
125. Ungvari GS, Leung CM, Tang WK (10%). Reactive Psychosis: a classical category nearing extinction? Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences2000; 54(6):621-624. (citations: 2)
126. Tang WK (60%), Ungvari GS. Clozapine-induced intestinal obstruction. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 1999;29(4):560. (citations: 6)
127. Ungvari GS, Chiu HFK, Chow LY, Lau B, Tang WK (10%). Lorazepam for chronic catatonia: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study. Psychopharmacology 1999; 142(4):393-398. (citations: 44)

Psychogeriatrics

128. Tang WK (60%), Chiu H, Woo J, Hjelm M , Hui E. Telepsychiatry in Psychogeriatric Service: A Pilot Study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2001;16:88-93. (citations: 31)
129. Lam LCW, Tang WK (10%), Leung V, Chiu HFK. Behavioral Profile of Alzheimer’s Disease in Chinese Elderly- a validation Study of the Chinese version of the Alzheimer’s disease behavioral Pathology Rating Scale. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2001; 16:368-73. (citations: 17)

Substance Use Related Disorders

130. Liang HJ, Lau CG, Tang A, Chan F, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (30%). Are Sexes Affected Differently by Ketamine? An Exploratory Study in Ketamine Users. Substance Use and Misuse. (Accepted on 24 Jul 2013, P131516)
131. Liang HJ, Lau CG, Tang A, Chan F, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (30%). Cognitive impairments in poly-drug ketamine users. Addictive Behaviors 2013;38(11):2661-2666.
132. Tang WK (60%), Lam M, Leung WN, Sun WZ, Chan TT, Ungvari GS. Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnoses in Persons with Ketamine Abuse. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2013;33(2):164-9.
133. Tang WK (60%), Liang HJ, Lau CG, Tang A, Ungvari GS. Relationship between cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms in current ketamine users. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 2013;74(3):460-468. (citations: 0)
134. Tang AK, Tang WK (20%), Liang HJ, Chan F, Mak SC, Ungvari GS. Clinical characteristics of cough mixture abusers referred to three substance abuse clinics in Hong Kong: a retrospective study. East Asian Archives of Psychiatry 2012;22(4):154-155.
135. Tang A, Cheung RY, Liang HJ, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (30%)*. Psychiatric morbidity at a female residential drug treatment centre in Hong Kong. East Asian Archives of Psychiatry. 2011; 21(1):22-27.
136. Tang A, Liang HJ, Ungvari GS, Tang WK (30%)*. Referral patterns and clinical characteristics of clients referred to the PWH Substance Abuse Clinic. East Asian Archives of Psychiatry. 2011; 21(1):28-31.
137. Tang WK (60%), Lum CM, Ungvari GS, Chiu HF. Alcohol Consumption, Lung Function, and Quality of Life in Pneumoconiosis. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research2005; 29(7):1230-1236. (citations: 3)

Others

138. Hou J, Wong SYS, Yip BHK, Lo HHM, Chan PHS, Lo CSL, Kwok TCY, Tang WK (5%), Mak WWS, Mercer SW, Ma HSW. Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Program Improves Family Caregivers’ Mental Well-being: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. (Accepted on 31 May, P131067)
139. Wong SY, Mak WW, Cheung EY, Ling CY, Lui WW, Tang WK (10%), Wong RL, Lo HH, Mercer S, Ma HS. A randomized, controlled clinical trial: The effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on generalized anxiety disorder among Chinese community patients: protocol for a randomized trial. BMC Psychiatry. 2011 Nov 29;11(1):187. (citations: 0)
140. Xiang YT, Li LJ, Zhou JJ, Wang CY, Dixon LB, Dickerson F, Zhou FC, Ungvari GS, Zhang XY, Shum DHK, Au RWC, Tang WK, Man D, Chiu HFK. Quality of life of patients with euthymic bipolar disorder and its associations with demographic and clinical characteristics, psychopathology and cognitive deficits. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care. Accepted on 15 Mar 2013, P139455.

Books Authored

1. Tang WK. Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). In: Chiu EYK et al. (eds), Textbook on Psychiatry for Asia. Peking Univeristy Medical Press. March 2006, p. 192-199.
2. Ungvari GS, Tang WK (10%). Commenting on the clinical heterogeneity of schizophrenic psychosis.  Progress in Differentiated Psychopathology, Franzek E et al. edit, Wurzburg, Germany; 2000: p 78-81.
3. Tang WK. Psychiatric Morbidity of Stroke in Hong Kong Chinese Patients: Dementia and Depression. Thesis (M.D.), The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  July 2005.