Dr. Yuliya Nikolova is a scientist in the Neurobiology of Depression and Aging Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Before being appointed to her current position, she completed her PhD in psychology and neuroscience at Duke University and a postdoctoral fellowship in translational neuroscience at CAMH.
Areas of Research
Dr. Nikolova’s work combines tools from experimental psychology, cognitive science, neuroimaging and genetics to study mechanisms of risk for mental illness. She is particularly interested in how neural circuits for reward and threat processing contribute to transdiagnostic cognitive and affective dysfunction. She has a strong focus on translation and integration across multiple levels of investigation, and works closely with preclinical teams to bridge basic science approaches with clinical research.
Publications
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