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Speaker:
Olga Vvedenskaya, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

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Olga Vvedenskaya is a Postdoc working on translational medicine and mass spectrometry in MPI-CBG, Dresden. She was born in Moscow, Russia, where studied medicine specializing in medical biophysics and worked on her MD thesis devoted to traumatic brain injury and mass spectrometry in the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She further did her PhD in Berlin, Germany working on multi-omics approach to research liver cancer and pre-cancerous conditions. Additionally to her main job as a researcher, Olga devotes her spare time to academic mental health advocacy.

Dragon Fly Initiative

There are many misconceptions about psychiatric disease, what causes it, who is at risk, and how it manifests. Increasingly we are understanding how immense this problem is in academia. “A Scientist’s Primer on Mental Health” is a 1-hour seminar and facilitated discussion which delivers the basics of mental health at a level that academics appreciate. The seminar includes:

- Prevalence of mental health illness in general and academic populations

- An overview of signs and symptoms highlighting those seen in academic settings

- The science underlying the causes and treatments of mental illnesses, with an emphasis on depression and anxiety (most common mental illness)