Tamara Vladimirovna Shushpanova is a leading researcher at the Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She studies changes in the neurochemistry and neuropharmacology of the brain that underlie the mechanisms of formation of preference for alcohol. She defended her dissertation on the topic: "Properties of benzodiazepine receptors in the human and rat brain under the influence of chronic alcoholization". Tamara Shushpanova studies the benzodiazepine receptor system of the brain in alcohol addiction in animals and in humans. She studies the metabolism of neuroactive steroid hormones under the influence of alcoholism and innovative methods of therapy using original anticonvulsant drugs: galodif, halonal. She is the author of more than 100 scientific works, 5 patents, presented a number of reports at Russian, European and World Congresses on Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology.