Danielle is a Sage Junior Research Fellow in the University of California, Santa Barbara departments of physics and psychological and brain sciences. Danielle’s research places her at the forefront of the field of network science, where she is currently concentrating on neuroscience and social and information systems to help better understand human behavior.
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>> My name is Dani Bassett, and I do post-doctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. And the research is in a combination of physics and neuroscience. So I study the human brain. I want to understand how differences in our brains affect how we behave. The major applications that I'm looking into are actually what happens in disease states like schizophrenia. So our hope eventually is take the research tools that I'm using and developing and construct a biomarker for the disease state of schizophrenia. At the moment schizophrenia is diagnosed by an interview with a doctor, there's no blood test that you can go get at the hospital, nothing, you know, concrete that says yes, you have the disease or no, you don't. So what we're hoping to do is develop these biomarkers for a diagnosis of the disease. It is your own hours, but it's more like your own hours as long as it's all of them. So it's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun. So I'm a computational researcher, so I have an office with a high-powered computer that I use to analyze brain imagery scans from individuals. And I do a lot of collaborative work with the brain imaging center at Santa Barbara. And so I have a lot of meetings throughout the day with people who are helping me do this research. And you know, I start fairly early and go through the evening and then often on weekends as well. So the farthest I've been is South Korea to give a lecture there, and I do most, actually, here in the United States and mostly on the East Coast since. Since I live in Santa Barbara now, it does mean a lot of flying.
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