Saša's Bio

Originally I am from croatia, but since I was 8 I lived in Maastricht and that is where I finished high-school and continued with a bachelor in Molecular Life Sciences. This I did for a year after which I found out that I need to leave my home town and head in a different direction. I was always fascinated with human behavior, and the complicity of organisms in general. So I decided to go to Amsterdam where I did the psychobiology bachelor, in my opinion an ideal combination of two fields in order to try and understand the whole picture better. My bachelor-project was a research proposal involving new ways to treat schizophrenia: ' The application of a new GlyT1 inhibitor; SSR504734 in a PCP induced schizophrenia rat model' . Under the supervision of Taco Werkman. Now I am part of the neuroscience track, and I like what I see. My internship will continue under the supervision of Taco, and this will involve Serotonergic modulation of dopamine and GABA inputs (to A9/A10 D2 neurons), while considering the role in antipsychotic drug efficacy; also related to schizophrenia.

My goal is to observe/learn/adapt, and hopefully participate in the day that we integrate technology in order to permanently enhance cognitive function of the brain, and finally start working in a more organized and efficient way. Cause lets face it.. the current brain really is overrated. We need more efficient processors to tackle the fundamental problems we are dealing with in our search for questions: this will save money, conflicts and most importantly time.

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