About Scicurious

Scicurious

Scicurious has a PhD in Physiology from a Southern institution. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from another respected Southern institution. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at a celebrated institution that is very fancy and somewhere else. Her professional interests are in neurophysiology, specifically the interactions of neurotransmitter systems. Having obtained her PhD, she wishes to further her career in science writing, education, and research. She is active in neuroscience outreach, particularly Brain Awareness, a program run through the Society for Neuroscience and the Dana Foundation.  She often blogs in the third person.

Why "Neurotic Physiology"?

Because people always ask.

In the olden days, people like Freud called psychiatric diseases "neuroses".  Now, however, we have discovered that all "neuroses" and psychiatric disorders have a physiological basis.  Neuroscientists can now bring physiology to neuroses in an attempt to understand how the brain works and what happens when things go wrong.  That's some neurotic physiology.