Zorkina Yana is a postdoc researcher working in the field of studying the neurobiological mechanisms of mental and neurodegenerative pathologies. Her research interests include modeling psychopathology in animals, primarily depressive disorders as well as Parkinson's disease and cognitive disorders; she owns the methods of a comprehensive assessment of cognitive functions and a depressive-like state using a detailed set of behavioral tests, immunochemical methods, methods of analyzing gene expression using quantitative real-time PCR; and she has 16 publications cited in Scopus and WoS over the past 5 years. She analyzes data from patients with psychiatric disorders – schizophrenia and depression—and patients with various types of cognitive dysfunction. Her research interests also include the study of genetic variations in various genes and their relationship with symptoms of mental illness, as well as the search for biological markers of mental illness to assess the risk of disease progression.