Ganesan Venkatasubramanian

Ganesan Venkatasubramanian is an Indian psychiatrist and clinician-scientist who works as a professor of psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore (NIMHANS). My overarching research interest is to learn the science that will facilitate a personalized approach to understanding disorders like Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and treating them using state-of-the-art psychopharmacology as well as advanced neuromodulatory interventions like transcranial Electrical Stimulation & other interventions anchored on translational neurobiology. Venkatasubramanian is known for his studies in the fields of schizophrenia, transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), brain imaging, neuroimmunology, neurometabolism and several other areas of biological psychiatry. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to medical sciences in 2018. Besides, he is an adjunct faculty at the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) in Bangalore. Furthermore, he is a [https://www.cgs.iitk.ac.in/Faculty.php distinguished visiting professor] at the Department of Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. Provided by Wikipedia