Dr. Mihaela Iordanova

Biography

Mihaela Iordanova completed her undergraduate studies at the University of New South Wales, where she received a Bachelor's degree with Honors in Psychology in 2001. She conducted her doctoral studies focused on the role of accumbal opioid dopamine transmission in error-correction during fear conditioning under the guidance of R. Frederick Westbrook. During her doctoral research, Mihaela visited the laboratory of Simon Killcross at Cardiff University and began investigating the role of dopamine in predicting fear. After completing her PhD in 2006, she pursued post-doctoral training at the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, collaborating with prominent scientists such as Rob Honey and Mark Good on neurocircuitry related to mnemonic integration. Later, she worked at the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Drug Abuse, exploring how cells in the central nucleus of the amygdala modulate firing under conditions of unexpectedly fewer rewards. In 2014, Mihaela was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University, where she also joined the Centre for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology.

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