Vlasios Brakoulias, MBBS, MPsychiatry, Ph.D., FRANZCP
About The Author:
Dr. Vlasios Brakoulias is a conjoint senior lecturer in psychiatry at the Sydney Medical School Nepean of The University of Sydney. He is also a senior staff specialist at the Nepean Hospital in Penrith, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Dr. Brakoulias also works with the Nepean Anxiety Disorders Clinic and he is the chief investigator of a major longitudinal study assessing people with obsessive-compulsive disorder called the Nepean OCD Study. He is also currently the Editor-in-Chief of the psychiatric journal Australasian Psychiatry.
Carla Nasca, Ph.D., is a post-doctoral fellow of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in the laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at the Rockefeller University, New York. Dr. Nasca received her B.A. in Molecular Biology and her M.S. in Electrophysiology from the University of Palermo in Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Pharmacology from the University Sapienza in Rome, Italy, before moving to The Rockefeller University under the mentorship of Dr. Bruce McEwen.