I'm a Mandarin & English bilingual researcher who is also "multilingual" in research methods. I study how hearing loss relates to mental health and cognitive aging. I finished my M.S. in the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at Asia University in January 2026, and I now work with the Department of Psychiatry at Chi Mei Medical Center.
- Clinical insight and psychology. I trained in educational psychology at National Tsing Hua University and then in speech-language pathology. This taught me to see each patient as a whole person, not just a test score. My undergraduate thesis was on gelotophobia, the fear of being laughed at. Four years later I was co-first author of a meta-analysis of laughter therapy for depression and anxiety, in Journal of Psychiatric Research.
- Neuroscience tools. As a research assistant I assisted with EEG and fMRI studies of humor and emotion, and tested participants in EEG and eye-tracking studies of aphasia.
- Large-scale data analysis. I work on dose-response meta-analyses and TriNetX cohort studies, using R and Stata. My other 2026 papers look at cochlear implants, sleep medicines and falls in dementia, vitamin D for depression, and diabetes and weight-loss drugs in psychiatric patients.
- Liu C-Y*, Liu T-H*, Huang C-W, Lai C-C, Lin C-H, Su K-P. Effects of laughter therapy on depression and anxiety: a dose-response meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2026;199:50-61. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2026.04.006 (*equal contribution)
- Liu T-H, Chu C-C, Liu C-Y, Wu J-Y, Tsai Y-W, Chang H-A, Lai C-C. Risk of falls and delirium associated with dual orexin receptor antagonists versus benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in older adults with dementia. Translational Psychiatry. 2026. doi:10.1038/s41398-026-04394-8
- Kuo K-W, Liu T-H, Liu C-Y, Liu C-J. Effects of cochlear implants on depression, anxiety, and insomnia in adults with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: a three-year retrospective cohort study of 8964 cochlear implant users. Cochlear Implants International. 2026;27(1):2-10. doi:10.1080/14670100.2025.2602323
The full list is on ORCID and the website.
- ageing-sleep-dementia-eeg. A learning project that builds an EEG analysis pipeline in Python with MNE on open data (Sleep-EDF and OpenNeuro ds004504). Power spectra by sleep stage are in progress.
I help clinicians, researchers and graduate students with the statistics of meta-analyses and cohort studies, part-time. I do not write theses or coursework, and I work with de-identified data only.