Residence India Nationality Indian | Name Vidita Vaidya | |
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Notable awards Alma mater St. Xavier's College-Autonomous, Mumbai Institution | ||
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Vidita Vaidya is an Indian neuroscientist and Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. She is a Research Fellow of the Wellcome Trust and a former associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Her primary areas of research are neuroscience and molecular psychiatry. Her work has garnered the 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for Medical Sciences. She was also a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development in 2012.
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- Neuroscientist vidita vaidya at loksatta viva lounge full episode
- How our brain changes with experience dr vidita vaidya tedxstxaviersmumbai
- Education
- Career
- References
How our brain changes with experience dr vidita vaidya tedxstxaviersmumbai
Education
Vidita received her undergraduate degree from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai in Life Sciences and Biochemistry. She obtained her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Yale University in. Her postdoctoral work was done at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and at the University of Oxford in UK, which she completed in March, 2000.
Career
She joined the Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR at the age of 29, in March, 2000, as a Principal Investigator. She has been a Wellcome Trust Overseas Senior Research Fellow and an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences from 2000-2005. Vidita studies the control mechanism that regulate emotion and how these mechanisms are influenced by experiences. She also investigates how changes in brain circuits form the basis of psychiatric disorders like depression and how early life experiences contribute to persistent alterations in behaviour. She was awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2015 in the medical sciences category and is a fellow at the Indian National Science Academy.
Vidita's research has also been centered around the role of science in the evolution of art and studying the circuitry of the brain in order to understand the reflection of the mind on these pathways with regard to smell, feel, sight etc. Her lab work is conducted on lab rats and mice. Vidita's particular field of interest lies in understanding how we all develop such unique circuitry in our brain, and consequently, such different ways of responding to trauma, despite sharing an identical brain architecture.
Her site at TIFR hosts a complete list of her publications. Vidita has also been featured in Lilavathi's Daughters, a compilation of biographical essays on Indian women scientists, and on "The Life in Science" blog.
