Post-Doc, Psychiatry
Senior Research Fellow / Lecturer
Thesis Title: Vulnerability Indicators in Psychosis - A Family Study
Professor Sophia Frangou
Professor David A Collier
About
Dr Nora S Vyas, BSc (Hons), PhD, CPsychol
I completed my PhD in Psychiatry and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, KCL. My PhD focused on investigating the effect of several susceptibility genes of schizophrenia on cognitive functioning in a sample of early-onset schizophrenia patients using a family-based design. As a postdoctoral researcher, I am interested in integrating neuroimaging, genetics and cognition to gain better insights into the pathophysiology of early onset schizophrenia and individuals at-risk mental state.
I have received several travel fellowships to present my research on schizophrenia in national and international conference worldwide including the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Portugal, France, India, USA, and the UK. I have been fortunate to receive the Young Research Award (2008) at the Third International Conference on Schizophrenia, Young Scientist Award (2009) at the Ninth World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, and more recently the prestigious Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award (2010-11).
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Alongside my research, I hold an honorary research associate position at the Institute of Psychiatry, KCL. I am a Visiting Lecturer, Module Leader and Tutor at City University London. I teach Abnormal and Clinical Psychology to final-year psychology undergraduate students.
My main research expertise are early-onset schizophrenia (EOS; onset before adulthood) schizophrenia/psychotic disorders, neuroendophenotypes, cognition, and molecular genetics. I have also expanded my interests to cannabis and psychosis, and neuroimaging including functional magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and positron emission tomography (PET).
International Memberships:
2007: Member of the British Indian Psychiatric Association
2009: Member of the British Association of
Psychopharmacology
2009: British Psychological Society (BPS)
Contact Information
http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=11900
