Cohort 
2022

Anusha Yasoda-Mohan, PhD

Neuroscientist

Collaboration is key—coming together as a society and placing our trust in the unison of expertise and experience is crucial in addressing dementia.

Current Work

Anusha is a postdoctoral research associate at the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, funded by the Irish Research Council to investigate the mechanism of action of tinnitus (continuous phantom ringing in the ears). Tinnitus shares two of its major risk factors—hearing loss and stress—with dementia and cognitive decline, increasing the necessity to understand tinnitus mechanism. Anusha's current work therefore delves into unravelling the mechanism of action of tinnitus and identifying an objective marker using neuroimaging techniques such as resting-state and task-based EEG.

Personal Hero

My Mother

Words of Strength

Empathy, unconventional thinking, dreaming big, networking

Vision

Collaboration is key—coming together as a society, opening our hearts to seeing the value each of its members bring to the whole and placing our trust in the unison of expertise and experience is crucial in addressing dementia.

Strategy

Anusha is currently developing a co-creative tool called BrainFM in collaboration with a dance artist and Atlantic Fellow. Together they actively engage the audience in topics related to brain health through movement-based translation of didactic content.

Impact

Anusha aims to develop an international community advocating for brain health literacy through the transdisciplinary collaboration of arts and science. She believes the fellowship at the Global Brain Health Institute will also be a stepping stone to developing art-based interventions.

Motivation

Bringing together the science and the arts in increasing awareness about the functioning of the brain, dementia and its risk factors, Anusha aims to bridge the gap in brain health literacy in India and around the world.

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