What drew me to the brain
A long answer to the question everyone asks at parties.
The short answer is: I wanted to understand why people suffer in the ways they do.
The longer answer involves an undergrad psychology class, a summer working in a memory clinic, and a slow realisation that the questions I kept coming back to were empirical, not philosophical. Not what is consciousness but what goes wrong in depression, and why does it go wrong differently for different people.
Neuroscience doesn’t have clean answers to that yet. That’s why I’m still here.