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Yavor Yalachkov

Ph.D., Dipl.-Psych., cand. med.

Research assistant

Yalachkov@med.uni-frankfurt.de

Yalachkov

Curriculum Vitae

Date/place of birth: 1985 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2004 Abitur in „English Language School – Plovdiv“, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2004-2008 Studies of Psychology (Diploma), Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main

2008

Diploma in Psychology (Dipl.-Psych., equivalent to M.Sc.)
08/2008-03/2011 Ph.D. studies at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (Maastricht University, Netherlands) and the Institute of Medical Psychology (Goethe- University, Frankfurt am Main).

Dissertation: „Perception and action in nicotine addiction. fMRI- and behavioral studies on sensorimotor and multisensory processes in smokers and non-smokers“
03/2011 Ph.D. in Psychology at the Maastricht University, Netherlands
since 2007

Research assistant at the Institute of Medical Psychology and member of the Crossmodal Neuroimaging Lab (Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main)
since 2008 Studies of Medicine (State Examination, MD) at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main
since 2011 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Medical Psychology (Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main)

 

Awards and Grants

2007-2008 Fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, competitive fellowship)
2010 "Sabine Grüsser-Sinopoli Award" for young scientists given by the German Medical Psychology Society
2011 Scholarship from the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies for the course "Addictive Disorders"

 

Memberships

  • German Society for Medical Psychology

  • Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

 

Reviewer/Referee for:

  • Brain Research

  • Experimental Brain Research

  • Journal of Neurophysiology

  • Current Neuropharmacology

  • Springer Wissenschaftsverlag, New York

  • Cerebral Cortex

  • Neuroimage

  • Journal of Neuroscience

  • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry

 

Editorial Boards

  • Editor for Journal of Medical Psychology

 

Academic teaching

since 2007 Curriculum “Addiction Primary Health Care” organized by the Academies of Physicians' Training in Rheinland-Pfalz and Hessen: lecturer on “Functional Neuroimaging of Addiction"

 

Public understanding of science

since 2009

School talks on the topic „Drugs, addiction and the brain“ as a part of the project of the City of Frankfurt am Main „Brückenschlagen – Wissenschaft in die Schulen”
2010 Talks on the topic "Drugs, addiction and the brain" for Die Katholische Jugendzentrale - Offenbach am Main and Bund der Deutschen Katholischen Jugend - Offenbach am Main

 

Cooperations

  • Matt Field, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool

  • Markus Winkler, Department of Psychology (Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy), University of Würzburg

 

Publications

 

Journal articles

Yalachkov Y, Kaiser J, Görres A, Seehaus A, Naumer MJ. Sensory modality of smoking cues modulates neural cue-reactivity. (in preparation)

Naumer MJ*, Yalachkov Y*, Polony A, Doehrmann O, Kaiser J. Complementary contributions of the cerebellum and temporo-parietal cortex to object-related visuo-haptic integration. (in preparation). [* = equal contribution]

Yalachkov Y, Kaiser J, Roeper J, Naumer MJ. Neurobiologische und kognitive Grundlagen der Sucht (submitted).

Yalachkov Y, Kaiser J, Naumer MJ. (2012) Functional neuroimaging studies in addiction: multisensory drug stimuli and neural cue reactivity. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(2):825-835.

Yalachkov Y, Kaiser J, Görres A, Seehaus A, Naumer MJ. (2012) Smoking experience modulates the cortical integration of vision and haptics. Neuroimage, 59(1):547-55.

Yalachkov Y, Kaiser J, Naumer MJ. (2012) Routine am Glimmstängel. Gehirn und Geist, Heft 1, 68-71. Spektrum der Wissenschaft: Heidelberg.

Yalachkov Y, Naumer MJ. (2011) Involvement of action-related brain regions in nicotine addiction. Journal of Neurophysiology, 106(1):1-3.

Yalachkov YV (2011) Perception and action in nicotine addiction. fMRI and behavioral studies of sensorimotor and multisensory processes in smokers and non-smokers. Maastricht: Datawyse/Universitaire Pers Maastricht.

Yalachkov Y, Kaiser J, Naumer MJ. (2010) Sensory and motor aspects of addiction. Behavioural Brain Research, 207(2):215-22.

Naumer MJ, Ratz L, Yalachkov Y, Polony A, Doehrmann O, Müller NG, Kaiser J, Hein G. (2010) Visuo-haptic convergence in a cortico-cerebellar network. European Journal of Neuroscience 31(10):1730-1736.

Yalachkov Y, Kaiser J, Naumer MJ. (2009) Brain regions related to tool use and action knowledge reflect nicotine dependence. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 4922-4929.

 

Talks

2010

  • 11th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (Liverpool, England)
  • Psychologie und Gehirn (Greifswald, Germany)

2009

  • 9th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry (Paris, France)
  • 35. Arbeitstagung Psychophysiologie und Methodik (Leipzig, Germany)

2008

  • Gemeinsamer Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Psychologie und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Soziologie (Jena, Germany)
  • Psychologie und Gehirn (Magdeburg, Germany)
  • Guest talk at the Department of Psychology (Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy), University of Würzburg

2007

  • 8th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (Sydney, Australia)

 

Organized symposia

Yalachkov Y & Naumer MJ. (2010) Multisensory integration in neuropsychiatric diseases. 11th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (Liverpool, England)

Yalachkov Y & Winkler M. (2009) Neural and behavioural correlates of addiction. 35. Arbeitstagung Psychophysiologie und Methodik (Leipzig, Germany)

 

Poster presentations

2011

  • Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2011 (Washington, USA)
  • Symposium of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience Frankfurt (ICNF), Goethe-University (Frankfurt am Main)

2009

  • Symposium "Regeneration and reorganisation in the injured nervous system" at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience Frankfurt (ICNF), Goethe-University (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

2008

  • Xth International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (Bodrum, Turkey)
  • 9th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (Hamburg, Germany)

 

 

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