Student Background/Interests
I'm a DO PhD candidate in
the neuro program. I'd like to use my DO and PhD degrees to study the
neural correlates (hopefully soon the neural causation) of
consciousness, possibly through behavioral neurology or
neuro-psychiatry. As of right now, avenues through which I'm interested
in studying consciousness include studying vegetative patients, the
mystical/religious experience or spirituality in general, or
investigating effects of psychotropic drugs such as LSD or DMT on
awareness/conscious experience.
My research as an undergraduate at
Albion College involved determining the effects of Netrin and Slit, two
secreted signals involved in nervous system development, on the
expression of cellular growth genes and cellular growth (so as to
further understand their links to cancer and cancer related activities).
An early part of this research, in which a cross-reactive Netrin
antibody was established, has led to a manuscript that is now under
review in Evolution and Development in which I am a co-author. Awards I
have received from Albion include several pre-medical and biology dept.
scholarships and most recently initiation into Phi Beta Kappa and
Albion's Ned Garvin Prize in Neuroscience.
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Paul Beach 