Dr. Wendy Suzuki

Dr. Wendy Suzuki, welcome to The Tamsen Show.

Thank you so much for having me.

What pulled me into neuroscience was an amazing mentor.

I like to call her the Beyonce of neuroscience, who was a professor that I had.

And I took her for my very first class of my freshman year.

And she was a neuroscientist, the very first female PhD ever given by UC Berkeley in neuroanatomy.

I didn't know.

I just chose the class by the title, which was called

the brain and its potential.

But she was a pioneering neuroscientist and she was an extraordinary instructor, made us all want to understand every little cell in our brain.

That's what she did for me.

And ever since that first day, I wanted to become a neuroscientist.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I think one of the most interesting trends

terrible interesting trend is we know how much social media is contributing to the higher levels of anxiety.

And then the pandemic happened and that made everything worse.

We came out of that, but then came AI.

And AI is an incredible tool.

It can be very, very valuable.

But in the way that it's been used by particularly young people for social companionship, for every time anxiety might come up or a worry might come up, what am I going to say?