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Dr. Kyna Conn is a post-doctoral researcher in the Anorexia Feeding Disorders Group at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute. She completed her PhD at the Queensland Brain Institute in 2021, focusing on subcortical dopamine function and decision-making deficits in schizophrenia using virally-mediated neural circuit modulation and pharmacological manipulations in mouse models. In 2021, Dr. Conn was awarded the University of Queensland Graduate Ready Postdoctoral Fellowship. She joined the Foldi Group in 2022 to extend the understanding of monoamine function in corticostriatal circuits and their relationships to neurochemical signaling and cognitive behavior in the context of anorexia nervosa. Her major research focus is determining the influence of psilocybin, the psychoactive component of "magic mushrooms", on cognition, reward, and pathological weight loss, mediated regionally through receptor-specific serotonin and dopamine functions. Dr. Conn's expertise aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly concerning education and the mechanisms underlying decision-making dysfunction in schizophrenia using preclinical animal models.
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