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Kazuko

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About Me

I'm curious about the world. Gravity and evolution are always topics in my mind. Also I find it very interesting how "strange" human being is. That's why I study about the brain, the most developed feature of human beings. I'm doing research about how memory forms in the brain. What I do is changing genes in mice and analyzing synaptic plasticity in the brain. I give electronic stimuli in the brain and measure the connectivity of neurons. I started this project thinking about creating drugs that enhance memory. I thought changing gene expression might be the way useful for developing such drugs. But more and more accomplishing the project, I start asking myself about ethical questions, and now I don't think it's a good idea. Well anyway, I do my project to find the mechanisms. I want to know how the brain works. Ultimately, I'm hoping that the days will come in the future when we know what makes the consciousness, the mechanism of love and happiness as well as what causes mental disorder. ----haha, do I sound like a mad scientist? :)
Music is also my passion. To me music is like a drug. I’m addicted. That can bring me to another mental stage.
I’m still struggling with my English. Muzukashi~ne~. Can somebody tutor me? I can teach you Japanese.Soon later :)
I wish I could hang out with you for walks and movies... I cannot do many things being here. but I wish all the best for you and I'm always here for you. Call me whenever you feel you want.
oh yeah, I keep sending you the totoro smile. :)
I hope you don't worry too much.
Love always.
by Davi chan Uhaha! You made it!
by Brandon
I'm one of them.

My Interests

I need Time Time and Time!

I'd like to meet:

Someone to love, yei! :) And the world in the future, especially people and animals from future might be fun to meet!

Music:

Too much to talk about in this small space.

Movies:

Tonarino Totoro, Fight Club, Forest Gump, Usual Suspect, Big Fish, Graves of Fireflies,

Television:

I don't have a habit to watch TV, but I like to watch "friends" "ER" and "Law & Orders".

Books:

many books by Albert Camus, especially The Stranger. many books by Haruki Murakami, especially Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran, books by Kenjiro Haitani

Heroes:

The people who love me, my family and friends

My Blog

Japan vs America

I've been thinking where to live these days. I guess it's time to decide and prepare for my new life after next spring. I've lived here in the states for more than 5 years. I've realized many differe...
Posted by Kazuko on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:44:00 PST

Recent Life

Many things are happening around me and I need Time Time Time!!!!   Atlanta was a big and dispersed city. Other than conference, I visited several places. At the Coca Cola museum, I fond it's int...
Posted by Kazuko on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:39:00 PST

many things going on

I'm back here now from Atlanta. It was a good conference but very exhausting. I'll poet some more later. I need to have a rest now :). ...
Posted by Kazuko on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:08:00 PST

Atlanta

I'm going to Atlanta for a SFN conference. If anyone will be there this week (after 12th) and next week, give me a call. Let's meet up there! ...
Posted by Kazuko on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:39:00 PST

got back -more about the interview!

Hey my friends, ok I got back from an interview & giving a talk. It was a new experience for me and was fun. I met 10 proffessors including chairs. I'll write about that later, cause I g...
Posted by Kazuko on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:55:00 PST

run run run!

Oh I've been super busy for my talk and mice, but today I felt more relaxing. It's a beautiful day and I ran a half mile for a relay race. It was so fun. About 100 teams (or more) joine...
Posted by Kazuko on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:34:00 PST

1000

Panpaka Pa~~n!! Today I saw the profile view had reached 1000. That means there were about 250 visits at myspace per month. Nice! Thank you everyone who vists my site. I've been busy an...
Posted by Kazuko on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 06:27:00 PST

Tragic news

We, people at NIH, got an e-mail aobut a sad news from a director of NIMH as below. It's a tragic news that a psychiatric doctor was killed by his patient last Sunday. I got shocked abo...
Posted by Kazuko on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:28:00 PST

About the lab

It's been almost 4 months since I started this my private myspace site. I've been getting connected with some of my music frineds' myspace here, but I haven't found any of the friends a...
Posted by Kazuko on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:25:00 PST

skin problem

Ohhh, I guess too much working causes me skin problem.... Do you know any good items to heal and cure pimples?  Seriously, it's getting worse these days....sigh I know I need a good sle...
Posted by Kazuko on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:53:00 PST