Yuliya Nikolova
PhD
Dr. Yuliya Nikolova is the Koerner New Scientist in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH). Before being appointed to her current position she completed a PhD in Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University in 2014 and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in translational neuroscience as a Banting Fellow at CAMH in 2017.
Research Synopsis
Dr. Nikolova’s work combines tools from experimental psychology, cognitive science, neuroimaging and genetics to study mechanisms of risk for mental illness, with a primary focus on mood and anxiety disorders. 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.