What is the neuroscience field like? Fun, not fun, boring, hard? Please help me!?

Question

I'm applying for universities right now and I need to get some idea of what kind of majors I should available at the unversity I go to. I'm thinking of doing neurosciencce because the brain and how people express themselves through it is incredibly interesting to me. I, however, know very little if nothing about neuroscience. Please let me know what its like!

Answer 1

I completely agree with you.

Neuroscience is absolutely the most interesting of the biosciences. Why? Because brain function determines everything about ourselves - our personalities, our emotions, our learning, our memory...

Neuroscience also tells us a lot about the control of the body, and of course there is the massive field of neurodegeneration and neurological disease...

It all depends on the individual but from your question I don't think there's any way you would find it boring. As to whether it is hard - it really depends on your aptitude. Neuroscience is clearly not one science. It is a massive range of scientific techniques applied to the function of the nervous system.

So some neuroscientists are computation neuroscientists who spend a lot of time working on mathematical equations, others spend their time involved in imaging experiments looking at active brain function, others work on molecular biology and cellular biology, or neurogenetics. The field is absolutely vast and any individual will find one sub-area more difficult than another.