User:Darkcharmr

A small-tech-company-co-owning, science-talk-radio-show-hosting PhD neuroscience graduate student. Also an extremely liberal semi-militantly atheistic transhumanist. A member of wikipedia because of my obsessive need to procrastinate, and to list things and add to pages I have semi-expertise on. Officially, these semi-expertises are:
 * 1) Neuroscience
 * 2) Psychopharmacology
 * 3) Psychology
 * 4) Neuroimaging
 * 5) Electroencephalography
 * 6) Mental illness
 * 7) Addiction
 * 8) Cognition
 * 9) Learning and memory
 * 10) Psychometrics
 * 11) Behavioural science
 * 12) Electronic music, mainly "minimal," tech-house, IDM, ambient, "indietronica," acid jazz, trance, dubstep, and psytrance. I also like hairsplitting.
 * 13) Digital DJing
 * 14) Computer programming/scripting (In order of descending proficiency: Java, MATLAB, E-Basic, Objective-C, HTML, CSS, C++, Javascript, Pascal, Visual Basic, C, PHP)
 * 15) Indie rock and jazz
 * 16) Movies

If I write about anything other than those things, I'm probably talking out of my ass.

You can listen to my radio show here, every Tuesday from 1-2PM Eastern Standard Time.

I am a published scientist, but I won't link my one peer-reviewed journal article paper here, mainly because it's boring. My more interesting work is still 1) in submission hell; and 2) Still being created - depending on what interesting work we're talking about :). Oh, and that's interesting IMHO, not everyone is fond of reading about neuroscience aka the inner workings of the human psyche uncovered by biology. Also IMHO, you have to be legally insane not to find this interesting.

On that note, I am, in fact, legally insane. I suffer from bipolar 2 disorder and ADHD. That said, I have been free of all major symptoms and all severe since 2009 and 2007, respectively, thanks to a complex cocktail of meds and therapy. Medically, I am now classed as "tentatively sane." To dispel a stereotype: I have no temper whatsoever and am often described as "excessively, unusually nice," in the words of friends, family, and co-workers.

Despite being crazy, I am happily (and somewhat newly) married to my absolute best friend: a beautiful ex-model with a psychology degree.

This was long, not because I'm narcissistic, but because I'm a)procrastinating working on my thesis; and b)completely obsessed with listing things.