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Santhoshi is passionate about bridging neuroscience with conversations about wellbeing, identity, and experiences. She founded Synapses & Society to bring together diverse perspectives across disciplines.
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Joanna is a assistant researcher, engaged in understanding how the brain encodes and responds to the world around it. She joins Synapses & Society to connect that science to the human stories behind it.
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Synapses & Society is an interdisciplinary conference exploring the relationship between brain processes and the environments, cultures, and experiences that shape human life. The conference brings together perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, health sciences, and the social sciences to examine how cognition, wellbeing, and human experience intersect across disciplines.
The 2026 event marks the inaugural Synapses & Society conference. The conference aims to create an accessible platform for students and early career researchers to share research, exchange ideas, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion.
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