Lyubomir I. Aftanas
Professor
Department of Experimental & Clinical Neuroscience
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Biography
Ivano-Frankovsk State Medical Institute. Major: General Practitioner – 1973–1979; Appointment and registration as psychiatrist: – 1979–1982; Post-graduate student. Institute of Physiology Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Medical sciences Major: Psychophysiology – 1982–1985; M.D. (i.e. Candidate of Medical Sciences) Thesis: Interhemispheric Intereference Inhibition Analysis in Man (Laboratory of Memory Processes: Prof. Ilyuchenok R.Yu.) – 1986; Dr. Sci. (i.e. Doctor of Medical Sciences) Thesis: Cortical Mechanisms of Induced Emotions in Man: Psychophysiology study. – 1999; Professor of Psychophysiology – 2004; Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences – 2004; Full Member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences – 2007; Full Member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences – 2014
Research Interest
Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience; Affective neuroscience; Emotion; Emotion Regulation; Meditation; Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuronal Plasticity; Neurogenetics; Cognitive Neuroscience and Gender Differences; Biological Psychiatry; Personality and Individual Differences; Major Depressive Disorder; PTSD; Schizophrenia; Psychosomatic Medicine; Essential Hypertension; Ulcerative Collitis; Clinical Neurophysiology; High Resolution EEG & ERPs; fMRI; Neurotherapy; Brain Modulation; Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).
