Understanding Us

Dr. Shriya Palchaudhuri  - Associate Director | External Engagements, Centre for Brain and Mind, NCBS

Shriya is an experimental neuroscientist trained at EPFL (Switzerland) and NYU (USA). These days, she’s on a mission to connect the dots between academia and the real world, making mental health research more accessible, relatable, and impactful. When she’s not decoding the brain, she's found reading, dancing or deep in good conversation! About the talk: Wired for Change: The Neuroscience of Learning For millennia, humans have been obsessed with understanding the most complex organ we possess: the brain. We’ve debated its nature, its purpose, and its power, but only in the last hundred years have we begun to truly decode how it shapes the way we live. In this talk, I’ll take you inside that process— how the brain breaks down the chaos of the external world into simple features, using them to chase what feels good and…