Dr. Nancy Padilla Coreano - a podcast by Nancy Padilla

Nancy’s interest in the brain didn’t originate in a science classroom; it instead came from reading Oliver Sacks’s book Musicophilia and his other essays about music and the brain. Following in Oliver Sacks’s footsteps as a neurologist, Nancy also decided to pursue neurology as an undergraduate. After joining a neuroscience lab, though, Nancy quickly fell in love with research and decided to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience instead. After studying the role of PFC circuitry in driving anxiety-like behavior in mice, she moved on to do a postdoc at MIT (now at the Salk Institute) where she has been studying neural representations of social hierarchies. As a result of her hard work and passion for impactful, cutting-edge science, Nancy is now preparing to start her own lab at the University of Florida! In her discussion with Catie and Megan, Nancy also describes the experience that sparked her commitment to making neuroscience more equitable and ultimately manifesting in her creation of Stories of WiN. Now as the subject of a Story herself, Nancy’s Stories of WiN journey has started to come full circle.

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