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I work in sunny Florida at The Mayo Clinic.  The Mayo Clinic is so cool that it even appeared on The Simpsons!!!

Here we are trying to cure diseases of the brain.  At the moment I am working on Parkinson’s disease, which usually affects old people.  It makes them shake, and they can’t walk properly.  I’m also looking for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.  This affects old people too. My great grandad had Alzheimer’s disease- it made him forget things very easily.

I sometimes work on Mad Cow disease too- I used to work in a Vet’s surgery, i LOVE animals, and Mad Cow disease is a brain disease which affects cows, sheep, humans, and even cats!!  It’s a really bad disease, so finding a cure is really important!!

Some days i will do brain surgery!  I am trying to develop new ways to treat brain diseases, and brain surgery can be a really cool way to do that!

Here is a picture of me doing some brain surgery

Other days I will be looking down a microscope, trying to find out why brain diseases happen.  Sometimes we will treat cells from a brain with our new treatments, and look at them under the microscope to see if it works! It’s really cool! Brain cells look like fried eggs  with arms!! 

Big pieces of brains look a lot different, they are sometimes quite pretty! Take a look below

Usually I will also go and play with my mice. My mice are very special- they help us to find cures to really bad diseases.

Sometimes I also get to travel to poor countries to work with people who need medical help!  Here is a picture of me in Jamaica!