Matkovskaya Tatyana, born in 1966, PhD, Associate Professor of Department of Psychiatry, Narcology, Neurology and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty of Karazin Kharkiv National University.

She graduated with honors from the pediatric department of the Kharkiv Medical Institute in 1991, specialty “Pediatrics “. Since 1991 she has been working at the SI “Institute for Children and Adolescents Health Care of the NAMS“ in the department of psychiatry. In 2002 T.Matkovskaya presented her thesis “Current state of pathomorphosis of neurotic and neurosis-like disorders in adolescents.” Candidate of Medical Sciences, specialty “Psychiatry”, senior researcher, certified to the highest qualification category as a psychiatrist, T.Matkovskaya is one of the performers of R&D within the framework of the institute research works as well as of the topical works in the department of psychiatry. The investigations, carried out in the department, are devoted to studying clinical manifestations of neurotic and neurosis-like disorders in children and adolescents, the issues of epidemiology of borderline psychoneurotic disorders, epilepsy, autism spectrum abnormalities, prophylaxis and rehabilitation of children and adolescents with behavioral disturbances and intellectual-mnestic function disorders, as well as to the study of the health status peculiarities in orphans, and psycho-emotional disturbances in adolescents with the hypothalamic syndrome. T.Matkovskaya has been involved in the implementation of the grant of the President ”Working out of medico-prophylactic measures for the pupils and students with the signs of sinistrality” , she has got an International certificate “GCP Training Course for Investigators» and is an active member of the Kharkiv Scientific Society of Psychiatrists . Doctor Matkovskaya is the author of 190 scientific papers (including three patents of Ukraine), innovations, methodological recommendations, she also took part in the international training and received a certificate concerning diagnosing autism in children by ADOS and ADI-R methods (Istanbul, 2012). In 2012 T.Matkovskaya participated in the International Congress of the World Psychiatric Association in Prague and in 2013 – in Vienna.