Neuroscientist’s Guide to Managing Stress, Depression, and Emotions

Prof. Vidita Vaidya is the Head and Principal Investigator of the Vaidya Lab at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.

Prof. Vaidya (and by extension, her lab) is interested in:

1. Understanding the Neurocircuitry of Emotion
2. Its modulation by Life Experience and Mood Modulatory Drugs
3. The alterations in Emotional Neurocircuitry that underlie Complex Psychiatric Disorders like Anxiety and Depression

She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Life-Science and Biochemistry from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Yale University and did her Post-Doctoral work at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the University of Oxford in the UK.

In 2015, she received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in the field of Medicine, from the Government of India.

When not in the lab, Vidita moonlights as an avid storyteller, frequent traveller, occasional salsa dancer, and a scientific outreach enthusiast.