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Hi everyone, I'm Gillian Starkey, and I'm a senior Psych major/NBS concentrator at Bryn Mawr. Like Stephanie, I'm from the West Coast (Berkeley, CA), and I hope to go back to the Bay Area at some point later in life.

Up until last summer, all I knew was that I was interested in psychology. Then I did an internship at the University of Louisville with Dennis Molfese, who studies cortical activation differences in language development and learning disabilities using ERP (a kind of EEG) technology. Since then, I've been hooked on brain imaging research, and for a while I was fully convinced that my goal in life should be to someday run my own brain imaging lab with various types of imaging technologies.

However, I've also always been interested in doing clinical work -- that's what drew me to psychology in the first place. So, for next year, I'm applying to several clinical positions as well as several research-assistant-type positions in the hopes that I can figure out before I go to grad school whether I want to focus on research or head down the clinical path. I'm sure that quite a few of us are in the same position of uncertainty about exactly where in the field of psychology/biology/neuroscience we belong.

With regard to this class, I'm excited to hear different perspectives on neuroethics as well as people's views on how psychopharmacology and neuroscience relate to issues of education. Looking forward to next Tuesday...