DrNazanin Doostdar

I received a Bsc (Hons) in Cognitive neuroscience and psychology from the University of Manchester in 2015 and was awarded with a PhD in neuropsychopharmacology from the same university in 2019. I was the recipient of the highly competitive President’s Doctoral Scholars Award, which partly funded my PhD studies. Throughout my PhD, I investigated the effects of chronic treatment with antipsychotics on cognition and its neural correlates in an animal model for cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia using a combination of behavioural and in-vivo electrophysiological techniques.

I am now a research associate working with Dr Samuel Barnes in the Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) at Imperial College. We use a combination of in-vivo calcium imaging, electrophysiological and behavioural techniques to investigate the dynamics of homeostatic neural plasticity in aging and neurodegeneration.