Angarika Balakrishnan
PhD Candidate in Psychology at Northeastern University, researching early-life adversity's effects on brain development and mental health.
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Jun 17, 2026
Deborah WestphalHOST
Where did you go to school? What were you kind of focusing on? And how did you get to the PhD candidacy here? So tell us about that.
5:42
So I think this was like conversation with my parents where I really felt that I did not still want to narrow myself down too much.
5:50
I feel like there is so much that science has to offer, like the different systems in the body.
5:55
If I started concentrating on just one system early on, I wouldn't be able to get the entire extent of it.
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Deborah WestphalHOST
What is it that you're studying? I think you're using rodents, but what are some of the hypotheses or the questions that you're trying to answer?