My Field of Study

     My field of study is neuroscience and before going into a long detailed analysis of the writing and audiences within the field it may be pertinent to tell you a it more some things about the field.

What do Students Learn?

        Students within the field of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science have to learn at least all of the basic sciences; biology, chemistry and physics. Then once those have been covered there's also things called "soft sciences" that are taught like linguistics and psychology. Once in the higher levels of the field the students of neuroscience are then taught the basics of brain function and structure and the like.

Where Will We Work?

       Most of the people that study neuroscience go one of two routes, either a medical route or a research route. The medical route leads to neurologist ans brain surgeons, and the research is more focused on understanding the brain usually by using the study of different animal brains and experimenting on them to better understand aspects of the brain as a whole.

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The Draw

      What drew me to Neuroscience in the first place is sort of fuzzy for me, I think I can trace the interest in brain disease to a summer I spent with grandparents and I learned about the effects of Alzheimer's but it mostly felt right to want to study such an unexplored part of our own human bodies.

Who's "So Hot Right Now"?

        It's hard to tell since 2016 just began who will be truly active in the field at this time so instead I'll tell you three influential people that are significantly in recent times, or who have impacted me. 

        A main person who is a real person of interest to me an is a real inspiration is Mayim Bialik. She's known for being an actress but has studied and published in the field of neuroscience. She's an inspiration to me because not only is she a female scientist but she really breaks a stereotype in both the fields of scientist and in entertainment.

        Another well known Neuroscientist in the field is David Eagleman, he is certainly interesting because he is pioneering research and application of neuroscience into law. Not only that but he has done work on synesthesia, which is endlessly interesting to me and how the brain understands and processes certain senses and its responses to those senses.

       Antonio Damasio  is the third neuroscientist that I would say is significant to the field overall, mostly because of his work in how brain processes affect how feelings and emotions work and how we react to them overall.

Journals of Import 

         A large journal for the Neuroscience community is the Nature journal; Nature Neuroscience is a collaborative online journal so it's not really published in one place since it is also published under a publishing group based out of 40+ countries.

       The second blog I think that has a very high importance rating among neuroscience journals is the Behavioral and Brain Sciences journal published out of Cambridge University.

         A third journal of import is the PLOS: Biology journal that is a review journal for works of science. It's based out of San Francisco, California.