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Katerina Antoniou
Identity
- Name/Surname
- Katerina Antoniou
- Position
- Professor
- Sector
- Clinical and Basic Functional Sciences
- Clinic/Department
- Pharmacology
- Research topic
- Pharmacology
- Office
- -
- Address
- Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.
- Telephone
- 0030 26510 0 7570
- Fax
- 0030 26510 0 7859
- kantoniou@uoi.gr
- Site
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Scientific - Research Interests
- Bio-behavioral effects of psychotropics such as amphetamine, caffeine, cocaine and recently ketamine, cannabinoids and alcohol in rodents. Appropriate models in order to study, at a translational level, CNS disorders and their neurobiological substrates including anxiety/depression, drug abuse and schizophrenia.
- Mechanisms underlying the behavioral and neurobiological effects of psychotropics such as cannabinoids, alcohol, ketamine, d-amphetamine, cocaine, and caffeine
- Pharmacological evaluation (screening) of drugs/substances with CNS activity
- Modeling of CNS disorders such as depression, psychosis and drugs of abuse
- Definition of specific phenotypes (including individual differences) which characterized by certain behavioral outcomes and accompanied by respective neurobiological indices
- Coupling with clinical studies aiming to the relationship between personality traits and the neurobiology of mental illness focusing on patients with a first psychotic episode and depression.
Curriculum vitae
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