Ever since I was young, there have always been instances of neurodegenerative disease in my family. My great-uncle has suffered from Parkinson’s disease for many years and though Parkinson’s is very debilitating, he has lived with it for a quite a while and embraces it as a part of his identity. He continues to live…
Author: Aakash Parthasarathy
The Subjectivity of Taste
When I was a young child, my mother tried to get me to eat healthy foods. She would try to disguise vegetables as snacks or meat by simply saying they were something that looked similar. Carrots became cheese, broccoli became cauliflower (I used to like cauliflower), and tomatoes became cherries. Somehow, my mother was able…
The Subjectivity of Taste
When reading the Escoffier chapter of Proust Was a Neuroscientist by John Lehrer, something that caught my eye was the experiment on wine tasters run by Frederic Brochet. It was astonishing that established wine tasters were unable to tell the difference between an ordinary wine from the more refined wines. Simply re-labeling cheap wine as…
Aakash Parthasarathy
Hi all, I am Aakash Parthasarathy from San Francisco, California. I have decided on majoring in Biology on the Pre-Med track. This class seemed interesting, and appealed to my interests of the brain which I cultivated in AP psychology last year, so I’m really excited for this class to progress. Aside from that, I love…