Medicine, the mind,
and everything in between.
I’m Dr Harsh Srivastava, a physician turned neuroscientist studying how brain networks change in psychosis. SciFreak is where I write about science, medicine and life.
Trained and worked at
IISc Bangalore
IIT Bombay
NIMHANS
NCBS
UCL Gatsby Unit
ETH Zürich TNU
ICTS
University of Pisa
Neuromatch Academy
UPUMS
“We, as doctors, are fighting a losing battle.”
“Kindness is easier to preach than to practice.”
“I had been drowning for so long, I can’t remember how to breathe, now that I can.”
Mapping how the brain rewires in psychosis.
Clinical training at the bedside, engineering at IIT Bombay, and now a PhD at IISc: my research asks how brain connectivity changes in schizophrenia, and what that means for treatment.
Effect of antipsychotic treatment on functional brain connectivity of schizophrenia patients
A surface-based connectivity analysis with the Freesurfer and CONN toolboxes, tracking how functional brain networks change after three months of antipsychotic treatment.
Read about the project →
NowPhD candidate (Neuroscience)
Indian Institute of Science. Currently rotating in the Emotion and Cognition lab, Prof. Srikanth Padmala.
TrainingFrom UCL to ETH Zürich
Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience, Gatsby Bridging Programme, Computational Neuroscience Course and more.
ToolkitNeuroimaging and code
CONN Toolbox, FSL, SPM, Freesurfer, MATLAB, Python, R.
- 76essays, stories and poems since 2016
- 4international summer schools
- 5neuroimaging and modelling workshops
- 195All India Rank, GATE Biotechnology 2023
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