An aspiring neuroscientist focused on how the brain forms and holds on to memory. Currently in sixth form in London.
I follow current research on memory and the brain, write up what I take from each paper, and build on the questions that interest me most. This site is where that work lives.
My focus is how the brain forms and holds on to a memory.
I took biology, chemistry and psychology together because I kept running into the same questions in all three. Biology taught me about cells and neurons, chemistry about what they are made of, and psychology about how we actually study the mind. The place where they overlap is where I would like to work.
I read research papers closely, work through the parts I do not yet understand, and write each one up in my own words. Where I can, I take an idea further and test it myself. I am aiming to study neuroscience at university and to work in research.
How an experience becomes a physical change inside the brain, and how that change manages to last.
The molecules and mechanisms inside a cell, and the chemistry that keeps all of it running.
How psychologists design a fair experiment and decide what a result is really telling them.
A review of how a memory is stored in the brain: which cells hold it, and the molecular changes that keep the trace in place over time.
[Richie: what you understood, a question it left you with, or a small bit of work you did because of it.]
[One or two sentences on what the paper found, in your own words.]
[Your own thoughts, a question, or a follow-up you tried.]
[What it is, and what you were trying to work out.]
[What you learned from doing it.]
If you have a question, a reading suggestion, or anything you think I would find interesting, please do get in touch.