My Experience at Stanford’s Clinical Neuroscience Immersion Program (CNI-X)

07/22/25:

I’m happy to share that I recently completed the Clinical Neuroscience Immersion Experience(CNI-X) summer program at Stanford University. In two weeks, I had the privilege of learning from many amazing Stanford professors, medical doctors, and scientists such as Dr. David Eagleman and Dr. Odette Harris.

In total, the program covered about 30 topics around neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, AI, the neuroscience ethics and laws, and the research methods. One particular topic I enjoyed was the "Infant & parent mental health in the NICU", presented by Dr. Celeste Poe. I was fascinated to learn about how parents of premature babies struggle with their mental health, sometimes even blaming themselves for causing their child’s poor health. I definitely want to look more into this topic.

In addition to the many lectures, we were also placed into different capstone groups. I was lucky to be put into the "Eating Disorder" group, as this is a topic I had prior knowledge and passion for. I’m very proud of our group for not just allocating the tasks efficiently, but for creating an intricate demo app that the audience members loved. This showed that all of our hard work during and outside our session, whether that’s creating the app or doing research about our topic, truly paid off! I’m grateful to our staff mentor Zara for helping us through the brainstorming process and providing amazing feedback as we progressed through our project.

Thank you to CNI-X faculty members Dr. Turner-Essel and Dr. Daniels for allowing me to be part of this amazing program. I learned a lot and met many people from across the world. If I had to take one thing away from these two weeks of learning, it would be that though we all came to the program to learn about neuroscience or psychology, we all wanted to learn something unique, as demonstrated through the 12 capstone projects.