# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yang-yongxin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:51:31.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yang-yongxin"
name: "Yang Yongxin"
slug: "yang-yongxin"
description: "Yang Yongxin is a Chinese psychiatrist who advocated and practiced a highly controversial form of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) without anesthesia or muscle relaxants as a cure for video game and Internet addiction in adolescents. Yang is currently deputy chief of the Fourth Hospital of Linyi, in the Shandong province of China. He runs the Internet Addiction Treatment Center at the hospital."
tagline: "Chinese psychiatrist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
birthDate: "1962-06-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.38
  momentum:             1.933884297520661
  historical:           5.662146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%8A%E6%B0%B8%E4%BF%A1"
    title: "楊永信"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Yongxin"
    title: "Yang Yongxin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Yongxin"
    title: "Yang Yongxin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E6%9D%A8%E6%B0%B8%E4%BF%A1"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%8A%E6%B0%B8%E4%BF%A1"
    title: "楊永信"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%A8%E6%B0%B8%E4%BF%A1"
    title: "杨永信"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8048517"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump