Mayim Bialik is at the very least a triple threat. She’s an actress who stars on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory; she’s a neuroscientist who received her Ph.D. from UCLA, where she wrote her dissertation on the genetic disorder Prader-Willi syndrome; and she’s the author of a book on parenting, Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way. At an event co-presented by UCLA, Bialik talked with Huffington Post science correspondent Cara Santa Maria about how she weaves the many threads of her busy life together—and how they sometimes come into conflict.