About me

Hello! I am a Wayne State alumni with a bachelors in Honors Neuroscience. I am aspiring to go to medical school and specialize in Neuropsychiatry. My research interest is in neurobiology of mindfulness meditation and resiliency to improve psychological well being and combat chronic pain. I have experience working as a clinical research assistant at Wayne State School of Medicine, where I utilized neuroimaging and psychophysiology to explore risk and resiliency related to pediatric PTSD and geriatric pain disorders. In my free time, I enjoy reading philosophy, meeting new people, and exploring new trails around. 

Neural and psychological sciences have come a long way to explain many aspects of human cognition and behavior. Yet, it is still unknown how and why specific neural processes necessitate phenomenological experiences. In brief, why and how is it that we experience reality based on neurochemical apparatus. This posits an even greater question for the clinical sciences, as we hope to treat mental illness using brain stimulation and other biochemical or pharmacological interventions. Thus, my hope is to analyze different philosophies and neuroscientific theories to better explain what it really means to be conscious, and how that relates to illness and psychopathology. I believe there are two themes in this field that we need to address: 1. metacognitive awareness of internal states and 2. Somatic marker hypothesis by Damasio. More details can be found in blog on Mind, Brain and Self.