Katharine Thakkar

Biography

My research program aims to understand the biological basis of psychotic disorders, namely schizophrenia. More specifically, I use translational methods, largely grounded in animal neurophysiology, to examine the basic building blocks of impaired cognition, disrupted social abilities, and the core disturbances in the sense of self purported to characterize psychosis. Understanding these most basic impairments that give rise to the profound cognitive, social, and psychotic symptoms of schizophren