Episode #47. How much are we able to change? Rewiring old habits, neuroplasticity in action.

I became a neuroscientist the day my sister sat comatose in a lock up ward of a mental health hospital at the age of 21. As I sat in the hot and steamy room, with my sister stiff as cardboard, staring into space and the doctors saying they were not exactly sure of what was going on. I stopped being a pharmacist and started asking questions -like why do we not understand how the brain works? Why do we think it is ok to treat a girl with incredibly mild symptoms-like hearing voices- with ...