• Question: Why did you choose to study the brain over other specialities of science? ???

    Asked by xlxkelsey2k10xlx to Carolyn, Nick on 24 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Nick Bradshaw

      Nick Bradshaw answered on 24 Mar 2010:

      I wasn’t intending to originally, I just wanted to work in a field that was “medical” in some manner. When I started applying for a PhD, I got an offer from a professor who was studying schizophrenia and I thought his work sounded very interesting, and I have been working on since. Part of the reason I find it so interesting is beacuse there is some history of mental health problems (notably autism) in my wife’s family.

    • Photo: Carolyn McGettigan

      Carolyn McGettigan answered on 24 Mar 2010:

      That’s weird, I thought I answered this one already. I’m sorry!

      I chose to study the brain because I was curious to find out more about what ‘makes us tick’. Also, I love sounds and music, and amongst the biological sciences that I studies it was in psychology that people researched these topics. I chose to do research in cognitive neuroscience as I wanted to think about ‘the bigger picture’ and working out how certain human behaviours are supported in the brain, like understanding speech. Even though I think that cellular neuroscience is also fascinating, I was never much good at cell biology practicals!

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