Robin Blades
Class of 2021
Robin Blades is a writer and researcher interested in understanding how brain dynamics produce subjective experience and lead to mental illness. She majored in Comparative Literature and Cognitive Science with a specialization in computing at UCLA. After graduation, she worked at a neurology clinic that treats patients with neurodegenerative diseases and psychopathologies. She received a Fulbright Research Award in 2019 to study the effect of stress in patients with neurocysticercosis: a brain infection that frequently leads to epilepsy. She is currently collaborating on multiple studies at UCSF testing clinical interventions for women with depression.
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