Favourite Thing: Go to conferences in exotic places to discuss cutting edge research with intelligent like-minded people

What I do: I am trying to work out why male and female brains develop differently with a view to understanding why the sexes are vulnerable to different sorts of mental disorders

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Favourite Thing: My favourite thing to do is to come up with new experiments and plan all the little details of how I would do them. I was always the nosey kid asking why…why…but why (I must have driven my family crazy) and not much has changed. I like to know how things work the way they do and why not by some other way. A good experiment must answer a question which would be beneficial to know the answer to and ideally it shouldn’t have been done before. I love the idea of doing something completely new.

What I do: I try to make connections between what we eat (how fat we are) and hormones in our brain.

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Favourite Thing: To explore why different sides of the brain do different things

What I do: Why the right side of the brain prefers the left side of space

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Favourite Thing: Understand and help people, bridge disciplines

What I do: I’m interested in how people develop over time. I a social scientist so I tend to use interviews and surveys to approach this topic.

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Favourite Thing: Wearing a lab coat ;-)

What I do: I’m interested in how brain cells send messages to one another and how this stops working properly in diseases like Parkinsons.

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