I have been in Puerto Rico for 10 years, at the Ponce School of Medicine, Dept of Physiology. I have recently moved to UPR-Ciencias Medicas, Dept. of Psychiatry. I am originally from Connecticut, did my undergrad training at Northwestern Univ. and my PhD at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn. After starting the first neuroscience laboratory in Honduras at the National Medical School (with a Fulbright grant), I returned to New York for to do a post-doc at NYU studying fear learning with Joseph LeDoux. I then came to Ponce in 1997 to start my own lab. My lab has grown quickly due to the excellent students who have committed themselves to this work. I have a strong interest in developing first class science in developing countries. I believe that science must engage more of the world countries and cultures, if we are going to solve the big mysteries of the brain. Thanks to the internet, and websites like CienciasPR, the traditional barriers are finally falling. Puerto Rico has a bright future in Neuroscience, especially Cognitive Neuroscience!