An engram is the physical trace a memory leaves in the brain. This is a blog about the traces medicine leaves on me — neuroscience, study science, and the strange business of learning how to learn.
Longer pieces on the science I can't stop thinking about.
The cellular reason your brain remembers the things you revisit and forgets the things you panic-study at 2 a.m. A tour through synaptic strengthening, spaced repetition, and the quiet biology of actually knowing something.
Shorter notes, observations, and things I got wrong.
Why one seahorse-shaped structure carries so much of what we call memory.
All-or-nothing signalling, explained without a single equation you'll forget.
The forgetting curve, retrieval practice, and why Anki feels like cheating.
Three years in, and the job is less about memorising and more about tolerating uncertainty.
A short glossary that finally made drug mechanisms click for me.
Bone is alive, fat is an organ, and other facts that rewired my brain.
Everything I write about, roughly organised.
Engram started as a folder of notes I kept rewriting for myself — explanations of concepts that finally clicked, and honest records of the ones that didn't.
I write about neuroscience, physiology, the science of studying, and the parts of medicine school doesn't put on the syllabus. If something makes me stop and think, it ends up here.
No advice, no hustle. Just curiosity, written down before I forget it.
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