Ki Ann Goosens, an assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used to rail against the scientists who weren’t producing enough useful information about schizophrenia. Her brother suffers from the brain disorder, and she couldn’t understand why researchers hadn’t made more progress against it.
Then she realized that there were probably people suffering from mental illness who felt the same way about her.
A memory researcher, Goosens decided she could refocus her own work to be more useful to suffering people and families. Now she studies the intersection of stress and mental illness.
“People don’t really care about your prestigious science paper,” she said. “They want to know what can you do to help my sibling or my parent or my spouse.”
[For more of this story, written by Karen Weintraub, go to https://www.bostonglobe.com/li...NOaos2EGO/story.html]
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