Hi everyone, my name is Anna Bennis and I am in the track Cognitive Neuroscience. I did the bachelorprogramme psychobiology at the UvA. I wanted to do this bachelorprogramme because of a big interest in people and their behavior, why we act in certain ways and what the biological cause of a particular behavior is.
My bachelor thesis, which was a research proposal, was called “An investigation of the role of the endocannabinoid receptor CB1 in depression” under the supervision of Marian Joels. Obviously it is about depression which in this case was a ratstudy. In this study I would have wanted to look at the CB1 receptor in the hypothalamus and see if activation of the CB1 receptor facilitates or inhibits depression.
I do not yet have an internship but there are some very interesting studies going on at the NIN under the supervision of Dick Swaab. They are doing studies on neuropsychiatric disorders. For some unknown reason neuropsychiatric disorder fascinate me and I would like to be doing research on that subject. Which is quite a broad subject, not only in the amount of disorders but also in the approaches that can be used to study this. So I am still kind of lost and I do not know, yet, what it is exactly that I want to do, although I do know that this master programme is what I want to do and during this master programme I hope to find out what it is I want to be doing in the future. Luckily we have two internships, which I am really excited about, because so far my education has been pretty much theoretical. So I am looking forward to actually participating in a study instead of reading about it.
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