Bio Merel Rijnsburger

Hi, my name is Merel. I live in Amsterdam now, but I used to live with my parents in Aphen a/d Rijn, near Leiden. I did my bachelor psychobiology on the university of Amsterdam because the relation between behavior and brain interests me a lot. For my bachelorthesis, I did an intership at the clinical psychology department. It was about fear conditioning and the influence of a beta-blocker (propranolol) on it. Propranolol seems to erase the fear experience of a certain memory. I learned a lot during this internship and I think this kind of research is very interesting, but focussing on neuronal mechanisms is more in my league. I'm in the cognitive neuroscience track now. I choosed this master because the interdisciplinary character is very nice. My interests are neuropathology (e.g., depression, alzheimer etc), aging and neuroimaging (I think it's interesting, but pretty difficult though). Many more topics are interesting me though. I like to filosofy sometimes, for instance about consciousness, but I think the focuss on neurobiological processes fits more with my interests.