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What is the Neuroscience?
Neuroscience is a field devoted to the
scientific study of the nervous system. Such studies span the
structure, function, evolutionary history, development, genetics,
biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, informatics, computational
neuroscience and pathology of the nervous system. Traditionally it
is seen as a branch of biological sciences. However, recently there
has been a surge in the convergence of interest from many allied
disciplines, including cognitive and neuropsychology, computer
science, statistics, physics, and medicine.
The scope of neuroscience has now broadened to include any
systematic scientific experimental and theoretical investigation of
the central and peripheral nervous system of biological organisms.
The empirical methodologies employed by neuroscientists have been
enormously expanded, from biochemical and genetic analysis of
dynamics of individual nerve cells and their molecular constituents
to imaging representations of perceptual and motor tasks in the
brain. Many recent theoretical advances in neuroscience have been
aided by the use of computational modeling.
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.