The Daring and Deranged Discusses Development
Why do you get out of bed in the morning? Employment? Routine? For the collective common principles that govern our society? How do you remember to go to the grocery store on the way home from work? Why do you know every lyric to Take Me Home-Country Road? I’m a 21-year-old budding pupil that wakes up frustrated to an erect mind of questions like these. I am in lust and hopeful of beginning an expedition of obtaining a Ph.D. Neuroscience within the coming years.
I started an undergraduate degree in Psychology Neuroscience at the University of New Brunswick eons ago, hopeful, and excited to learn about the inner mechanistic circuitry of the mind. Soon, I found the brain’s unsolved directional map to be an ever-lasting itch. I wake up and my mind hums an off-tune beat; snippets from readings and research that so often taunt me. I am regularly undecided whether this drive is cultivated by my inverted sanity or my stubbornness to want to shape out the landscape of the world’s most unsolvable puzzle, the brain. Regardless, I’ve been given the conquest from one of my professors to delve into the agonizing pinches of persistent curiosity, within the field of my scope.
Across the fields of Neuroscience, I thought it foolish to discuss any other discipline other than the one that starts with the first piece to the puzzle. You must place pieces of puzzles systematically just like you would for telling a story. With my unwillingness to start in the middle, I fell in desire for Developmental Neuroscience. Developmental Neuroscience is an investigation of neuronal development across the life span. Even the additional factors to neuronal development that come about before there is a single neuron are viciously fascinating. This blog will direct focus to the unremitting subject of a not yet commonly definable area of Developmental Neuroscience, executive function: memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibition, you name it! How do these functions arise through human brain development? A question that keeps my nose ruffled and me studying day after day.
Executive functions are the abilities that innately make us human. How do these come to be from a salivating youth of cells to a well-organized functioning thinker of the natural world? Speaking of nature, I am going to foster the debate about how nurturing can change our nature through the interrogation of epigenetics on executive functions.
Beware for this blog now will hold the brutal suspicions that taunt my mind concerning executive functions and will nearly taunt yours!
Sincerely,
Wannabe Doctor Deranged
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