The inner engineer: One researcher’s quest to understand the brain

A great stroke association would hire her immediately and put her in charge of  identifying research opportunities that need funding. But we have jackshit for stroke associations, only good for press releases.
The inner engineer: One researcher’s quest to understand the brain

For Jennifer Raymond, PhD, associate professor of neurobiology, the decision to devote her career to deciphering how the brain operates was, well, a no-brainer.
“I think we’re all curious about how our brains work,” Raymond says in the video above. “It’s really fundamental to who we are.”
She’s on a hunt for the brain’s “inner engineer,” the “actor” that decides how the brain should rewire itself to operate more efficiently. And now is a good time for the field, she says.

In neuroscience, we’re poised to start making some fundamental breakthroughs in understanding how the building blocks of the brain, the neurons, work together to perform computations and to learn.

Those insights will have big implications for society and medicine, Raymond says.

If we can better understand how the brain learns, this will help us design better treatments for people with learning disabilities or people recovering from stroke…

- See more at: http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2015/05/28/the-inner-engineer-one-researchers-quest-to-understand-the-brain/#sthash.T0WIGAfc.dpuf

 For Jennifer Raymond, PhD, associate professor of neurobiology, the decision to devote her career to deciphering how the brain operates was, well, a no-brainer.

“I think we’re all curious about how our brains work,” Raymond says in the video above. “It’s really fundamental to who we are.”

She’s on a hunt for the brain’s “inner engineer,” the “actor” that decides how the brain should rewire itself to operate more efficiently. And now is a good time for the field, she says.

    In neuroscience, we’re poised to start making some fundamental breakthroughs in understanding how the building blocks of the brain, the neurons, work together to perform computations and to learn.

Those insights will have big implications for society and medicine, Raymond says.

    If we can better understand how the brain learns, this will help us design better treatments for people with learning disabilities or people recovering from stroke…

For Jennifer Raymond, PhD, associate professor of neurobiology, the decision to devote her career to deciphering how the brain operates was, well, a no-brainer.
“I think we’re all curious about how our brains work,” Raymond says in the video above. “It’s really fundamental to who we are.”
She’s on a hunt for the brain’s “inner engineer,” the “actor” that decides how the brain should rewire itself to operate more efficiently. And now is a good time for the field, she says.

In neuroscience, we’re poised to start making some fundamental breakthroughs in understanding how the building blocks of the brain, the neurons, work together to perform computations and to learn.

Those insights will have big implications for society and medicine, Raymond says.

If we can better understand how the brain learns, this will help us design better treatments for people with learning disabilities or people recovering from stroke…

- See more at: http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2015/05/28/the-inner-engineer-one-researchers-quest-to-understand-the-brain/#sthash.T0WIGAfc.dpuf