About the self-centered author

My name is Raul Gonçalves, and I started this blog on December 28th, 2007, with the intention to use it as a learning project in order to prepare myself to write a more professional blog about neurosciences.

I live in the extreme south of Brazil, where I study Psychology on the Federal University of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. I have been working since I can remember; to account for the last few years: in 2004 I was an interviewer for psychological research in a famous laboratory; 2005 I worked on yet another laboratory, helping a team of IT experts to create learning tools for children, and in the last two years I have worked as a freelance graphical artist for flyers, business-cards and all the likes while studying for the med-school admission exams.

After one and a half year studying psychology, it was clear to me that I was interested in the neurosciences and the neurochemical approaches to the psychological phenomena. This way, I thought I would benefit in starting my career as an MD, and that’s the reason why, after 2006, I left the projects related to my psychology course in order to study for the admission exams of the med-school. As 2008 shows it’s face, I still haven’t got that admission, and because of that I’m returning to my course of origin, which I intend to finish before I try the med-school again. Neuroscience is still my passion, and as long as my college’s program remains a little weak on that matter I’m going to keep studying it as a hobby, and, as soon as I have confidence in my blogging skills I shall have a very interesting neuroscientific blog.