Dr. Amishi Jha
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 4 Jul
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And this is actually the kind of point of everything that I've been up to in my lab, which is that if we know our attention is vulnerable, how can we train it?
What are the best ways that we can spend a little bit of time every day so we can keep our attention in peak shape?
So attention was just a topic that I was fascinated by because really I was interested in a kind of a bigger topic, which was...
You might use the technical term neuroplasticity.
Okay.
The power of the brain to change itself.
Okay.
And, you know, originally in my early days, I thought I was going to be a medical doctor.
I thought maybe, you know, I'll be in hospitals helping patients.
Pretty soon I realized, no, that's not going to be for me.
I'm not going to be a great clinician.
It doesn't motivate me.
You can say it.
I love people, but I don't necessarily want to be around people solving their problems when they're not well.
That was not the thing that was exciting to me.
I really lucked out very early in my life.
journey to trying to become a physician that helped me realize that I don't want to do this by volunteering in a brain injury unit.
And this is when I was at the end of high school.
And, um,
My job was, you know, what they called candy stripers in those days.
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