It turns out that neuroscience has discovered that anxiety about eg a forthcoming mathematics test activates the brain’s pain circuitry.
I spent years in a state of pre-exam panic, so I know the best way to get over it is to be taught the subject by someone who has been through that -not by someone who doesn’t understand the distress.
Patrick Andrews has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and an MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge.
A former Chartered Engineer and Chartered Mathematician, Patrick has worked in management consultancies and high-tech startups, and in academia as a postdoc in Applied Mathematics at Cambridge and a maths lecturer at De Montfort University.
Patrick is the father of three delightful (but not uniformly mathematical!) daughters.