Teodora ("Tedy") Markova, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar in the Rabinovici Lab at the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center, part of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Her research examines how neuropsychiatric symptoms emerge and progress in neurodegenerative diseases and how these changes relate to imaging biomarkers. She aims to better understand the biological mechanisms underlying these symptoms and identify factors that may promote resilience to disease-related brain changes.
Markova earned her PhD in neuroscience from Brandeis University, where she studied neuropsychiatric symptoms in healthy aging. Using multimodal neuroimaging, her doctoral research examined how individual differences in neuromodulatory systems influence the relationship between brain pathology and changes in depressive symptoms over time.