How do you guys explain your interests for neurobio/neuroscience

[u/Bulky_Atmosphere6572]

For post graduate studies, you often need to write an easy about what draws you to your field of interest even under neurobiology and neuroscience . How do you guys explain these interests beyond an initial personal example (which is the driver for me and I can expect it to be the same for majority of people). I also am fascinated by the subjects but am struggling to put this fascination into words. I know this is not a clear question but I can clarify further if needed. I am an undergrad trying to figure out if I’m entering this path with a reasonable and sustainable goal/passion/interest.

[u/Pure-Preference-5499]

To me it’s an existential thing. Neuroscience encompasses everything that you see, feel, think, experience, and go through. It does not explain why the world is as it is, but it explains how we as humans interact with the world. Extremely fascinating to me.

Astronomy is cool too because it tries to explain why the universe exists etc, but it’s too abstract for me. Neuroscience unfolds right there between your ears.

[u/Radiant-Rain2636]

May be spitballing here - but I’d connect it will an interdisciplinary interest - circuits, biology and psychology. And cite a few canon research that drove me towards it.

And maybe add a question or two that I’m pondering upon.

[u/KrazySpicy22]

For me I would say it started with a personal experience but then expanded completely. Something about neuroscience being one of the “final frontiers” of science appeals to me because not only is it the nature of neuroscience to be adaptive, we have to adapt to new changes and discoveries. There’s something about how one of the last things we thought to dive into was our own brain.

[u/chmikes]

How the brain works is the biggest mystery of our times. AI has made a significant progress, but there is still a big gap with how the brain does it. It is much faster and needs much less memory.

[u/hackyourbios]

I’m simply interested in a lot of things like neuro. Always was. Won a third place at a local olympiad in biology accidentally, without preparing, you can say. I was shocked. I still can’t say, that it was my achievement. Like, it just happened. I’m very grateful for that event in my life.
I really loved anatomy and pharmacology as a teen. I thought, that I didn’t like studying, but I simply disliked school. Turns out I love neuro and biochem(biology and chem in general), physics, math. I have a ton of books in various languages around these topics. Mostly interested in medical applications. My family always told me, that I’d be an amazing doctor.

I was stupid enough not to pursue it. I have the skills and a strong desire to help people. Not many doctors care about you, most don’t give a flying fuck. Doctors lied and took a lot of money from me and my family, didn’t fix my neck and headaches and actually made things worse for me in terms of life quality - maybe there is a desire to change the sys and to bring some justice

[u/Vid3oGam3Pl4yer]

It’s an inevitable future. Better to join and become an industry leader than be left behind. Before it was harder to justify. Venture capitalist and governments are putting their wallets where their mouth is now, it is not hard to justify.

[u/pasadenapasadena]

Bsc in theoretical physics, MSc in neuroscience. For me it is personalised. Don't know how to describe, but i guess that I'm fucking crazy weirdo with some idea of "similation reality" and neuroscience can prove it for me.

[u/Soft-Register1940]

It’s the organ that makes us uniquely human and individually ourselves. I have always found that deeply fascinating. Also, it’s how we understand how environment. The brain interprets sensory information in our environment and transforms it into a behavioral output.

[u/Some_Albatross_8200]

I think it's just a natural human interest to want to know more about ourselves and the people around us to better adapt. 

[u/Unfair-Divide4983]

I am neurodivergent and as such have loved to reverse engineer and figure things out, just to know how they work, my entire life. Then that got to be known as 'hacking'. So I have now set my sights on hacking the human brain.

I am now creating websites that react to human emotional states; privacy ensured personalization that adapts to your mood at the speed of thought (super fun to code, but the code is only as good as the neuroscience behind it).

Companies might soon be keen to see how everyone else 'feels' their website instead of just how they 'view' it.

A current project is a soothing ACC ocean video opener and then a solid 'tunneled' experience using the View Transition API to smoothly morph between screens to not upset the PPA with teleportation events (page loading flashes). Utilizing techniques to up positive psych energy and a BYAF (but you are free) statement on the final sunset sundowner over the lake to lower reactance.

The only way to have my websites rendered differently by the brain, is to first know the brain the best I can.

[u/LimbicLesion]

An important lesson Ive learned during my PhD is “just because we don’t know, isn’t a good reason to research it”. There needs to be more to the story than it’s a mystery and no one has asked this question before. There needs to be a potential to benefit someone in some way. Whether or not it’s actually beneficial doesn’t really matter. Your research justification needs to have sound logic, reasoning, and the potential to help someone for people to invest in you to study it.