How COVID-19 Affects the Brain
Dr. Maura Boldrini, M.D., Ph.D.
12-1pm
This talk will provide an overview of the recent literature regarding brain effects resulting from COVID disease and new findings from the Boldrini Lab.
Maura Boldrini, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Boldini is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia Medical College, Director of the Quantitative Brain Institute (Brain QUANT), and the Human Neurobiology laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Her research focuses on understanding underlying mechanisms of behavioral, cognitive and emotional changes associated with brain diseases.
In her laboratory, Dr. Boldrini is studying brain circuits involved in depression, suicide, aging and other neurodegenerative conditions. She is studying brain circuits at the cellular and molecular level, and she is interested in understanding how the mind and the brain interact generating symptoms that make people suffer.