Irina Trofimova
Overview
Irina Trofimova works at McMaster University since 1997 in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences. She is also a fully registered Clinical Psychologist, directing Psychological Services (a company operating in Downtown Toronto and Hamilton) since 2004 and a co-Director of the Late Life Memory Clinic, Dunnville Hospital since 2011. In co-authorship with Prof. Trevor Robbins (Cambridge University, UK), she offered a neurochemical framework FET summarizing the functional roles of the main neurotransmitter systems, hormones, and opioid peptides in behavioural regulation, including psychopathology. She has published 7 books, and 80+ articles in the field of neuroscience, clinical, differential, personality, cognitive, evolutional, and mathematical psychology and classifications of individual differences.
Irina is interested in four types of research initiatives and lines of cooperation with the McMaster Institute of Aging (MIRA):
1) Neurochemically-based individual differences that make some people age faster than others. Structuring neurochemical investigations using the FET framework allows to trace these differences in systematic and neuroscience-based ways.
2) Screening for biologically-based differences across the lifespan using a developed in her lab compact temperament test for all age groups and the structured analysis of biographic information.
3) Comparison of the efficiency of several tests commonly used to screen for dementia in older adults. 4) Cross-cultural longitudinal research.
Her detailed C.V. can be found at here.
Affiliations
- Assistant Clinical Professor (adjunct)
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
- Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Collective Intelligence
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
Education
- MSc, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- PhD, Russian Academy of Science
