Neuropharmacology

Biography

Dr. Uzunova is a medical doctor and neuroscientist with experience in the areas of psychiatry, neuropharmacology, rare disorders, neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders, molecular and cellular neuroscience, and immunology. She has studied synaptic plasticity, the ratio of excitation and inhibition, oxytocin, dopamine, glutamate and GABA neurotransmitter systems and their role in CNS disorders. Another area of specialization is neurobiology of addiction. She has clinical research experience on development of new therapeutics for major depressive disorder (MDD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). She has experience in teaching, mentoring, writing of peer-reviewed publications, grants, book chapters, posters, informed consent forms, presentations, and experience in project management, designing research hypotheses, following through with experimental design, generation, analysis, critical interpretation and presentation of scientific data, and mentoring. She works towards understanding the neurobiological mechanisms and developing of new treatments for neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders (with focus on syndromal forms of autism), anxiety, mood disorders, and orphan diseases.

Research Interest

Clinical Neuropharmacology, Molecular Neuropharmacology ,Therapeutics for Autism Spectrum Disorders and Rare Diseases,Mood disorders with focus on Depression,