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Kieran Fox

Kieran Fox MD, PhD

Neuroscience
San Francisco, California, United States of America

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Kieran C.R. Fox is a neuroscientist by training and is currently a third-year medical student at Stanford University. He use intracranial electrical stimulation (neuromodulation) of the human brain to research cognition and emotion in epilepsy patients. Before that, he did his Master's and PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience with Kalina Christoff at the University of British Columbia, in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. His graduate research focused on the neuroscience of meditation and mind-wandering. And before that, he spent a good while in Asia studying meditation and volunteering with Tibetan monks and refugees.