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Let me just say right up front that I am very disappointed that there is no humorous talking cat in
The
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. There is a black cat named Salem who serves as Sabrina’s familiar but he doesn’t talk. This new Netflix version of Sabrina is not the
Sabrina the Teenage Witch of TGIF days past. It is not fun and light-hearted. It’s dark and cynical with a very heavy dose of fighting the male patriarchy through very anti-Christian means at the heart of the storyline.
Released October 26, just in time for Halloween, the first season is 10 one-hour episodes centered around the struggle of teenager Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka), a half-witch who must decide on her sixteenth birthday (Halloween) if she will become a full witch or remain in the mortal world. An orphan, her paternal aunts Zelda (Miranda Otto) and Hilda (Lucy Davis) took her in as a baby. Sabrina’s father was the High Priest of the Church of the Night at the time
BSC Counselor - John L. R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D.
John Rubenstein M.D. Ph.D. is the Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child Psychiatry at UCSF. His laboratory focuses on genetic, molecular and cellular mechanisms that control the development of the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia, and has contributed to understanding their organization, the patterning centers that regulate their regionalization, the transcription factors and gene regulatory elements that control the identity and differentiation of forebrain subdivisions and cell types. His studies have implications on mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and epilepsy. Dr. Rubenstein is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Shahriar SheikhBahaei, Ph.D.
Dr. SheikhBahaei’s interest in neuroscience stemmed from the usual combination of an aptitude for science and a medical problem (stuttering) that brought him into bioscience at a young age. Dr. SheikhBahaei received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he worked with Dr. Bob Zucker on the regulation of neurotransmitter release and Dr. John Rubenstein (UC San Francisco) on development of GABAergic neurons in basal ganglia. Dr. SheikhBahaei completed his doctoral studies in Neuroscience (2017) jointly under NIMH/NINDS – University College London (UCL) Graduate Partnership Program where he worked with Drs. Jeffrey Smith (NINDS) and Alexander Gourine (UCL). His graduate studies were on how astrocytic networks control activities of respiratory motor circuits within the brainstem. After short postdoctoral research at NINDS, Dr. SheikhBahaei became an Independent Research Scholar in 2019. In collaboration with the lab