Schizophrenia Personal Statement

STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTEREST

I'm a physiotherapist with 5 years of experience in rehabilitation of neurological disorders mainly cerebral palsy, cerebrovascular stroke and spinal cord injury. Although, the rehabilitation process takes a lot of time and money, the recovery is usually limited.
Moreover, the impacts of these disorders on patients and their family can be devastating. These factors were motivating me to search for new methods in management of these disorders.
I found that integration between rehabilitation and neuroscience is the corner stone to develop these new effective strategies based on physiological basis and plasticity and to share critical questions unanswered in the translation from basic science to human
application.
If there will be promising results, we may use it in other deficits such as aphasia and spasticity.
I am interested in pursuing the master degree and PhD in neuroscience in charite university berlin which has a unique medical neuroscience program under supervision of highly qualified professors with principle of conducting interdisciplinary, curiosity-driven research. I am excited to learn more about recent brain excitements as connectomics, brainbow and optogenetics. Moreover, brain machine interfaces that make me motivated to introduce researches in animals with spinal cord injury with the idea of connecting primary motor cortex that control lower limb movement to spinal cord below level of injury (bypassing site of lesion) and so affected animals can control their walking through mind as occurred in people who controlled a robotic arm through their mind by connecting the motor area of the brain to robotic arm through artificial neural network. After earning my master degree and PhD, I would like to either continue in a high level research position or work in academia as a professor. I