Dr. Hannah Critchlow is an internationally acclaimed neuroscientist who has spent her career demystifying and explaining the brain to audiences around the world. Through her writing, broadcasting and lectures to audiences – whether in schools, festivals or online – she has become one of the public faces of neuroscience. She tells Professor JimAl-Khalili that her desire to understand
the brain began when she spent a year after school as a nursing assistant in a psychiatric hospital. The experience of working with young patients – many the same age as her – made her ask what it is within each individual brain which determines people’s very different life trajectories.
Posted on 24/04/2024
