International Journal of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

International Journal of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is to provide a single platform for publishing original experimental and review articles on the trends and advances of mind study. It specializes in articles that cover the latest developments and pinpoints directions for future research on mind and cognitive sciences.

Stella Giakoumaki

Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Greece

Research Areas

Sensorimotor and Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Frontal Lobe Sydnromes

Education

2005Ph.DBiological Psychology and Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete
2001M.ScNeuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete
1998B.ScPsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Crete

Experience

2010Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Crete
2009-2010Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Crete
2007-2010Psychologist, Psychiatric Clinic, University General Hospital, Herakion, Crete
2006-2010Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
2005-2006Honorary post-doctorate researcher, Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
1999Chartered psychologist

Membership

Hellenic Society for Neuroscience
Greek Society of Pharmacology
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
International Brain Research Organization
Society for Psychophysiological research
British Association for Psychopharmacology
International Neuropsychological Society

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Roussos P., Giakoumaki S.G., Adamaki E., Bitsios P., The influence of schizophrenia-related neuregulin-1 polymorphisms on sensorimotor gating in healthy males. Biological Psychiatry, 69, 479-486.
[2]  Roussos P., Giakoumaki S.G., Adamaki E., Georgakopoulos A., Robakis N.K., Bitsios P., The association of schizophrenia risk D-amino acid oxidase polymorphisms with sensorimotor gating, working memory and personality in healthy males. Neuropsychopharmacology, 36, 1677–1688.
[3]  Roussos P., Giakoumaki S.G., Georgakopoulos A., Robakis N.K., Bitsios P. The CACNA1C and ANK3 risk alleles impact on affective personality traits and startle reactivity but not on cognition or gating in healthy males. Bipolar Disorders, 13, 250-259.
[4]  Giakoumaki S.G., Roussos P., Pallis E.G., Bitsios P. Sustained attention and working memory deficits follow a familial pattern in schizophrenia. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, in press.
[5]  Roussos P., Katsel P., Davis K., Bitsios P., Giakoumaki S., Jogia J., Rozsnyai K., Collier C., Frangou S., Siever L., Haroutunian V., Genes and proteins associated with the nodes of Ranvier affect cognition, cortical physiology, and risk of schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry, in press.
[6]  Giakoumaki S.G., Bitsios P., Frangou S., Roussos P., Aasen I., Galea A., Kumari V., Low baseline startle and deficient affective startle modulation in remitted bipolar disorder patients and their unaffected siblings, Psychophysiology, 47, 659-668.
[7]  Roussos P., Giakoumaki S.G., Bitsios P., Cognitive and emotional processing associated with the season of birth and dopamine D4 receptor gene. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3926-3933.
[8]  Roussos P., Giakoumaki S.G., Bitsios P., A risk PRODH haplotype affects gating, memory, schizotypy and anxiety in healthy males. Biological Psychiatry, 65, 1063-1070.
[9]  Roussos P., Giakoumaki S.G.*, Bitsios P., Cognitive and emotional processing in high novelty seeking associated with the L-DRD4 genotype. Neuropsychologia, 46, 1654-1659 *Equal contribution with the first author in this work.
[10]  Roussos P., Giakoumaki S.G., Bitsios P., Tolcapone effects on gating, working memory and mood interact with the synonymous catechol-o-methyltransferase rs4818C/G polymorphism. Biological Psychiatry, 66, 997-1004.
[11]  Roussos P., Giakoumaki S.G., Pavlakis S., Bitsios P., Planning, decision making and the COMT rs4818 polymorphism in healthy males, Neuropsychologia, 46, 757-763.
[12]  Roussos P., Giakoumaki S.G.*, Bitsios P., The DRD3 Ser9Gly polymorphism modulates prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex, Biological Psychiatry, 64, 235-240 *Equal contribution with the first author in this work.
[13]  Roussos P., Giakoumaki S.G., Rogdaki M., Pavlakis S., Frangou S., Bitsios P., Prepulse Inhibition of the startle reflex in healthy males depends on the catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met gene polymorphism, Psychological Medicine, 38, 1651-1658.
[14]  Giakoumaki S.G., Roussos P., Bitsios P., Improvement of prepulse inhibition and executive function by the COMT inhibitor tolcapone depends on COMT Val158Met polymorphism, Neuropsychopharmacology, 33, 3058-3068.
[15]  Giakoumaki S.G., Roussos P., Rogdaki M., Karli N., Bitsios P., Frangou S., Evidence of disrupted prepulse inhibition in unaffected siblings of bipolar disorder patients, Biological Psychiatry, 62, 1418-1422.
[16]  Giakoumaki S.G., Roussos P., Frangou S., Bitsios P., Disruption of prepulse Inhibition of the startle reflex by the preferential D3 agonist ropinirole in healthy males, Psychopharmacology, 194, 289-295.
[17]  Giakoumaki S.G., Frangou S, Bitsios P. The level of PPI in healthy individuals may index cortical modulation of early information processing. Brain Research, 1078, 168-170.
[18]  Bitsios P., Giakoumaki S.G., Theou K., Frangou S. Increased prepulse inhibition is associated with better strategy formation and execution time in healthy males. Neuropsychologia, 44, 2494-2499.
[19]  Bitsios P, Giakoumaki S.G., Frangou S. The effects of dopamine agonists on prepulse inhibition in healthy men depend on baseline PPI values. Psychopharmacology, 182, 144-152.
[20]  Bitsios P., Giakoumaki S.G., Relationship of prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex to attentional and executive mechanisms in man, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 55, 229-241.