I like thinking about what the results mean in the wider scheme of things. I love writing about the results and their possible implications. I like the endless discovery - hearing about other people's scientific results, meeting psychiatric patients, reading new papers. Writing papers and giving talks are very useful skills - before my PhD I would have been terrified by the idea of giving a talk in front of anyone. Now I really enjoy giving talks, even in front of hundreds of strangers.
Science can be solitary and lack social interaction.
I have become very interested in science policy and the public's perception of science and have been involved in several science communication projects. For example, I have worked in a science museum explaining science to the public, talked about my research on the radio and TV, and took three months out of my PhD to work at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, writing about the implications of brain development and child development for education policy. On a more serious level, problems with this mechanism might lead to certain symptoms experienced in schizophrenia. I carry out psychological and brain imaging experiments to explore how the brain recognises one's own actions in healthy individuals and in people with auditory hallucinations and delusions of control. I recently have become interested in how we understand other people's intentions and desires just from observing their actions.