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Font Size Let me just say right up front that I am very disappointed that there is no humorous talking cat in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. There is a black cat named Salem who serves as Sabrina’s familiar but he doesn’t talk. This new Netflix version of Sabrina is not the Sabrina the Teenage Witch of TGIF days past. It is not fun and light-hearted. It’s dark and cynical with a very heavy dose of fighting the male patriarchy through very anti-Christian means at the heart of the storyline. Released October 26, just in time for Halloween, the first season is 10 one-h...

BSC Counselor - John L. R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D. John Rubenstein M.D. Ph.D. is the Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child Psychiatry at UCSF.  His laboratory focuses on genetic, molecular and cellular mechanisms that control the development of the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia, and has contributed to understanding their organization, the patterning centers that regulate their regionalization, the transcription factors and gene regulatory elements that control the identity and differentiation of forebrain subdivisions and cell types. His studies have implications on mechanisms un...

Shahriar SheikhBahaei, Ph.D. Dr. SheikhBahaei’s interest in neuroscience stemmed from the usual combination of an aptitude for science and a medical problem (stuttering) that brought him into bioscience at a young age. Dr. SheikhBahaei received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he worked with Dr. Bob Zucker on the regulation of neurotransmitter release and Dr. John Rubenstein (UC San Francisco) on development of GABAergic neurons in basal ganglia. Dr. SheikhBahaei completed his doctoral studies in Neuroscience (2017) jointly under NIMH/NINDS – Un...