Dr. Indira Tendolkar

Biography

Indira Tendolkar is a professor of psychiatry at Radboud University Medical Center, where she leads research focusing on clinical neuroscience in psychiatry. With a clinical background as both a neurologist and psychiatrist, she has developed novel experimental designs that test neutral and emotional forms of declarative memory using a wide array of electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods. Her research explores the fundamental cognitive neuroscience underlying both emotional and non-emotional forms of declarative memory, particularly how dysfunctions in memory systems are related to stress-related psychiatric disorders. Her work has led to participation in campus-wide prevention actions as part of the Healthy Brain pillar at Radboud University Medical Center. Initially, her research group investigated structural and functional changes in the declarative memory system during the early course of depression. Subsequently, the group unraveled the neural underpinnings of chronic treatment-resistant depression, providing evidence that the functional activity of brain regions mediating declarative memory is altered in relation to the early course of the disorder. Furthermore, she is extending her ongoing research to include neural correlates of memory bias in depression, aiming to modify cognitive biases using neuromodulation and experimental cognitive interventions. Currently, her team's research is focused on chronic depression and the effects of convulsion therapies. She also holds an adjunct professor position in psychiatry at the University of Essen-Duisburg, Germany, since January 1, 2012.

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