MedWorld: Jim Brewer's Homepage

Jim Brewer
Stanford MSTP Student
2000 (ouch)
Specialty: Neuroscience- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the medial temporal-lobes (of medical students)

I guess I should join the crowd and spill my guts on the World Wide Web for everyone to see. It is, after all, a boring night in Shallow Alto (the one and only drawback of Stanford University Medical School - Email me if you want a gushing recommendation to come here for Med School. Undergraduate degrees here, however, are not recommended). It is now Winter Break and I believe I have the right to waste some time on the Internet. Here is my story: Life was good, growing up in Hebron (the other one... In Nebraska). Kids there get a gun and a motorbike in fourth grade and are told to go explore the world and kill small animals. Mostly, however, we would just swim, play baseball, chew tobacco, drink, smoke cigars and beat each other up. In eighth grade, I moved to Springfield, Missouri. There, things were more upscale. We waterski, drink, smoke cigars, and joke with each other. I went to college at Southwest Missouri State University and prolonged this type of fun. After graduation, I went on a Fulbright to Israel where they hike, drink coffee, smoke nargilas, and yell at each other. I felt, surprisingly, at home there. Upon returning to the U.S., I came to Stanford, where we stay fit, drink cappuchino, don't smoke anything, and only very carefully talk with each other. These are the stories of the simple Nebraska boy thrown into the Stanford MD/PhD program... O.K., enough of that.

Research/Medical Interests:

A weird background of research Organic Chemistry with Nobel Prize winner George Olah at USC PET Scanning of Alzheimers Disease at Lawrence Berkeley Labs 3D reconstruction of neurons using confocal microscopy at Mayo Clinic Molecular modeling of Alzheimer's Drugs at Mayo Clinic X-ray Crystallography of Acetylcholinesterase at Weizmann Institute in Israel Now... Functional MRI of declarative memory processes (send me Email if you are in the area, are not claustrophobic, are right- handed, have no metal in your body, and want a picture of your brain.

My favorite web sites:

Gabrieli Lab Home Page
My lame and out-of-date home page
The NPAC visible human viewer

Send me email at Brewer@leland.stanford.edu.