Jacob Ruden, BA

Neuroscience PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt University

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Jacob Ruden graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Basis of Behavior. Jacob moved to Nashville and joined Vanderbilt University’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in 2015. He completed laboratory rotations before joining the Laboratory of Dr. Laura Dugan (Division of Geriatric Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center) and the Neuroscience Graduate Program in 2016. Jacob is currently a Neuroscience PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt University. He is exploring how parvalbumin interneurons, an important subset of inhibitory neurons in brain, respond to injury, and whether this response can be prevented and/or reversed.

It has been 10 months, and I just keep waiting for it to straighten itself out.

I could not read, concentrate on TV or even complete my application for my next round of family practice boards.

To me, it was like the slow rebooting of a computer.

I was diagnosed with ICU Syndrome while in the ICU, but they said it would go away!!

In my mind, I was plotting my escape to home, thinking I could pick at the threads of the imagined sewn elastic restraints and set myself free.

After I was extubated and sedation was discontinued, I continued to have paranoid delusions about the nurses wanting to harm me.

I sent your website to my family and it has changed my wife’s opinion about me. There is something about knowing that I am not alone and it isn’t my fault that makes a difference.

Jacob Ruden, BA

Neuroscience PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt University

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Neuroscience PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt University

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