Question: what is the most complicated thing about are body you have work on. And was it good or bad.

Rebecca Dewey answered on 15 Jun 2015:

I like to think that the theme of my research that carries me from project to project is that I want to understand how external influences change how the brain works. This could be that I want to look at how a drug affects brain activity, or I want to see how a surgical procedure affects brain activity, or that I want to see how having some training or teaching or learning a new skill affects brain activity. We usually isolate how a specific thing changes brain activity by comparing it with a “control” or a “normal person” condition. This means that I might need to measure how brain activity changes due to a drug in a person with a disease, and also to compare this to how brain activity changes in a person WITHOUT the disease so that it is a fair control, and we can see the exact effect of the drug on the disease. I might also be looking at the effect of the drug on a the state of the brain while doing a task compared with the state of the brain while not doing the task. This means that I’m making lots and lots of comparisons and comparing many different things at the same time. Not only are the statistics a nightmare but I often get very confused! I often need to draw out a diagram lots of times to get my head around it!