Dr Panagiota Michalopoulou
Panagiota (Yiota) Michalopoulou is Consultant Psychiatrist at SLaM NHS Foundation Trust and Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London. Her relationship with SLaM and the IoPPN began in 2003, when she joined the Department of Psychological Medicine for a year, as a fellow of the State Scholarships Foundation. She completed her psychiatric training in Eginition University Hospital in Athens, Greece. She obtained her PhD in University of Athens, Greece. Throughout her career, she has acquired expertise both in the clinic and research of psychosis. Cognition and the treatment of psychosis are among her main research interests. She was part of the IoPPN team for NEWMEDS-EU grant, one of the largest ever academic-industry consortia for new methods for development of drugs for schizophrenia and depression. She is BRC Neuromodulation Lead and aspires to contribute to the development of a TMS/Neuromodulation Service at IoPPN/SLAM for clinical and research applications.
She is the recipient of research grants and has published her research in peer-reviewed journals. She is Review Editor at Frontiers in Psychiatry. She has been recently awarded an MRC-Clinical Research Academic Partnership (CARP) fellowship for a TMS-EEG study on the role of glutamate, GABA and Cognitive Control on treatment response to antipsychotics.
Project: TMS-EEG