Question: why did you choose to study the brain?

Andrew McGovern answered on 10 Nov 2021:

I got bored at school easily, I didn’t find what we understood interesting to study and learn off. The things I enjoyed was the unknown things. I loved watching documentaries about space and the madness that is how vast the universe is. The same is true for how microbes smaller than we can see function like little factories, able to move and respond to their environment. I loved that cutting edge of what we could barely comprehend. When I was applying for college I picked astrophysics and neuroscience as my two routes. I was offered a place in a neuroscience course and I have been in love with it ever since.