Destiny

So I've started up classes again, and just finished day 3 of intro psych. So far we've been focusing on the biological elements of psychology. In the twenty years I have been a student, this is the first time I have ever been this completely fascinated by a course! Finally, after six years of college, two schools, and four majors I have found my calling! Behavioral neuroscience! Which consists roughly of poking a brain to see what it does. That's a really crude description, but a fairly accurate concept. Using imaging devices to examine which areas are active during behavior, examining how behavior changes in people with brain damage, that sort of thing. Did you know that if you apply a slight, harmless electrical charge to a certain area in the temporal lobe that the person will suddenly have the feeling that they have seen the future, just without knowing anything they might have seen about it? Isn't that so cool?! And did you know that while the cell bodies of the largest neurons are maybe 1/500th of an inch, the axoms (tail like structure that sends electro-chemical signals to other neurons) can be as long as three feet? Imagine, an individual cell in your body that is three feet long. Wow.