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>> My name is Dani Bassett,
and I do post-doctoral research

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at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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And the research is in a combination
of physics and neuroscience.

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So I study the human brain.

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I want to understand how differences
in our brains affect how we behave.

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The major applications that I'm
looking into are actually what happens

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in disease states like schizophrenia.

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So our hope eventually is take the
research tools that I'm using and developing

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and construct a biomarker for the
disease state of schizophrenia.

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At the moment schizophrenia is diagnosed by an
interview with a doctor, there's no blood test

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that you can go get at the hospital,
nothing, you know, concrete that says yes,

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you have the disease or no, you don't.

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So what we're hoping to do is develop these
biomarkers for a diagnosis of the disease.

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It is your own hours, but it's more like
your own hours as long as it's all of them.

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So it's a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun.

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So I'm a computational researcher, so I have an
office with a high-powered computer that I use

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to analyze brain imagery scans from individuals.

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And I do a lot of collaborative work with
the brain imaging center at Santa Barbara.

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And so I have a lot of meetings
throughout the day with people

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who are helping me do this research.

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And you know, I start fairly
early and go through the evening

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and then often on weekends as well.

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So the farthest I've been is South Korea to
give a lecture there, and I do most, actually,

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here in the United States and
mostly on the East Coast since.

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Since I live in Santa Barbara
now, it does mean a lot of flying.