• Question: What is a Nuero scientist?

    Asked by TomHol to Ed, Kerrianne, Nina, Oli, yoyehudi on 13 Nov 2017.
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      Yo Yehudi answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      Neuroscience is basically a fancy way of saying science of the brain, so a neuroscientist is someone who studies the brain 🙂 The British Neuroscience Association has a great explanation page here: https://www.bna.org.uk/about-neuroscience/

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      Ed Bracey answered on 15 Nov 2017:

      Like Yo says, we study the brain!
      We’re trying to figure out which brain cells connect to which other brain cells and understand what they’re saying to each other.
      This will help us understand which cells are switched on when we do everything that makes us what we are – see, smell, hear, laugh, think, move.
      It’s tough because there are around 80 billion brain cells in a human brain, it’s like a big spaghetti mess!
      If we can figure out how things work, then hopefully we lay the path for scientists who try to figure out what happens in the brain when things don’t work so well, like in schizophrenia or alzheimer’s disease.

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