Kia: Control
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2016
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
A young neuroscientist seeks control through an eating disorder. Kia is a recent graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in neuroscience and mathematics. For two years after graduation she worked as the lab manager for a neuroscience lab at Brown University in Providence, RI. For the past six months she has been traveling and working on organic farms in New Zealand with her girlfriend. She recently returned to the US and is pausing in Providence to reunite with her cats and friends before moving to San Francisco to work in the tech industry.
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| 0:50.9 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:54.0 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:55.8 | I felt... |
| 0:56.6 | I was so... |
| 0:57.9 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:58.8 | It was that golden moment. |
| 1:01.9 | Because science was on my side. |
| 1:08.6 | Hi, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:18.8 | This week's story is from Kia Salee. It was recorded in March 2016 at AS-220 in Providence, Rhode Island as part of Brain Week, Rhode Island. |
| 1:38.8 | Music AS-220 in Providence, Rhode Island as part of Brain Week, Rhode Island. In college, I studied neuroscience because I think that the brain is the most complex, miraculous, and |
| 1:46.0 | poorly understood piece of matter in the universe, or at least the known universe. |
| 1:51.0 | And in class, I learned about the phenomenon of neuroplasticity, which is the ability of the |
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