Konstantin Khodosevich

Konstantin Khodosevich says: “Psychiatric disorders are one of the most common and devastating human disorders that affect hundreds of millions of people world-wide. While some treatments for major psychiatric disorders have been developed, often these are non-specific and have significant side-effects, which is mainly due to lack of our understanding of how neuronal networks that encode psychiatric disorders arise during human brain development. In my research program, I will trace the development of psychiatric disorders in human brain from the very beginning of brain maturation and will unravel what goes wrong in neuronal networks in disordered brains. I will further reveal the period of impaired brain maturation when neuronal networks are still flexible and could be repaired, thus allowing to develop therapeutic interventions that drive brain maturation towards normally functioning healthy brain.”