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Dr Sanjay Manohar
Name:
Dr Sanjay Manohar
Job title:
Associate Professor in Computational Neurology
Place of work/study:
China Medical University (CMU) Taiwan, and CMU Beigang Hospital
Area of Research:
I study how neurons in the brain give rise to thoughts, memory and motivation.
How is your work funded:
MRC and NIHR
Tell us a little about yourself:
I read medicine at Cambridge, where I completed a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Physiology. I trained as a neurologist at UCL and Imperial, completed my PhD at Queen Square, and started a lab in Oxford in 2018. My group studies the neural computations underlying motivation and working memory, and how dopamine and acetylcholine modulate them. I am also the author of a children’s comic book about the brain and Good Coding Practice, a manual for improving computer code.
Tell us a fun fact about yourself:
Not sure I have one
Why did you choose to work in dementia?
To help people
What single piece of advice would you give to an early-career researcher?
Do not be afraid to change track, follow trends, spot what’s new and learn new methods.
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