BN Srikumar

Employment

• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) Professor
  2025 - Present
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Additional Professor
  2021 - 2025
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Associate Professor
  2018 - 2021
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) Assistant Professor
  2015 - 2018
• Biocon Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Center (BBRC) Principal Investigator
  2011 - 2015
• Université Bordeaux Segalen Postdoctorant
  2008 - 2011
• University of Utah Postdoctoral Fellow
  2007 - 2008

Education

• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences PhD
  2002 - 2006
• National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research M S (Pharm)
  2000 - 2001
• Government College of Pharmacy B Pharm
  1994 - 1998

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (50)

• Neurosteroid Levels in Pregnancy and Its Implications for Mental Health: A Literature Review
  Annals of Neurosciences 2026 DOI: 10.1177/09727531251351075
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• Sertraline and Escitalopram But Not Other Antidepressants Increase Acetylcholinesterase Activity Ex Vivo in the Rat Frontal Cortex
  Annals of Neurosciences 2026 DOI: 10.1177/09727531261448654
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• The interaction between finasteride and corticosterone levels: implications for depression-, and anxiety-like behavior and hippocampal synaptic plasticity in male rats
  Psychopharmacology 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-025-06810-1
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• Mifepristone blocks the anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects of allopregnanolone in male rats
  International Journal of Neuroscience 2024 DOI: 10.1080/00207454.2022.2153047
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• Restoration of sleep–wake behavior following short photoperiod exposure in ventral subicular lesioned male Wistar rats: A 24‐h sleep–wake electroencephalographical study
  Journal of Neuroscience Research 2024 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.25367
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• Anxiety-, and depression-like behavior following short-term finasteride administration is associated with impaired synaptic plasticity and cognitive behavior in male rats
  Journal of Psychiatric Research 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.04.029
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• Repeated finasteride administration promotes synaptic plasticity and produces antidepressant‐ and anxiolytic‐like effects in female rats
  Journal of Neuroscience Research 2024 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.25306
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• Environmental enrichment improves cognitive function, learning, memory and anxiety-related behaviours in rodent models of dementia: Implications for future study
  Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107880
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• An astrocyte-derived cytokine TIMP-1 restores synaptic plasticity in an Alzheimer’s disease model
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.18.533245
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• Circadian Rhythm Manipulations: Implications on Behavioral Restoration in Central Nervous System Insults
  2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22468-3_16
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