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Overview

Professor Sarah King tours us through her research into how experience influences brain development and ways of keeping our brains healthy.

This event is hosted by the u3a Science Network with speaker Professor Sarah King.

Join Professor Sarah King for a whistle stop tour through her career studying how experience influences brain development across the lifespan and how keeping our brains healthy can reduce the risk of dementia. In this accessible talk Sarah will explain how unexpected results have shaped her research and what she plans next. ‘My research has taken a winding path to understand how individual brains respond to environment (drugs, social experience etc.) and adapt accordingly’.

About the speaker

Sarah is a Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, and a member of Sussex Neuroscience. After school in Hong Kong she studied Biology at Bristol before heading to Sussex where she completed a masters and PhD in Neuroscience. From Sussex she went on to do postdoctoral research at Yale University in the USA for seven years. She returned to Sussex in 2004 as a lecturer and has subsequently been promoted to Reader and now Professor. When not teaching Psychology students about the brain, she can be found in the lab or talking research to the public as part of the Sussex Brain Bus project.

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