Vishnu N Thakare
Sinhgad Technical Education Society, India
Biography
Vishnu N Thakare has expertise in screening of natural drug candidates in experimentally induced depressive behaviour in rodents. His area of interest is
Neurobiology largely focused on investigation of mechanism of action responsible for depression and associated symptoms. Dr. Thakare’s recent work is study of PCA and silymarin in depression and focusing on underlying mechanism of action. Further, he is also working on investigating novel mechanism of action antidepressant potential of piperine. Now, Dr. Thakare is future work is to understand the sleep pattern in depressive behaviour and natural compound to improve the sleep pattern in depressive condition and thus improve cognitive disturbances in such conditions.