I'm hoping to take a course on neurotechnology in the fall though, so in the mean time I'm trying to sharpen up my very vague understanding of how brains work. I've been making slow but steady progress up the structure of the brain. Unfortunately memorizing has never been my strong point, and already much of the anatomy is dissolving into "a bunch of nuclei here, some nerves there, tracts running this way and that."
Don't feel bad, I actually worked in a neurobiology lab and still need a post-it with the cardinal directions :( I need a mnemonic for them already
The best (read: worst) thing about trying to memorize anatomy is that fucking everything has like 3 names, especially in the cortex. There's a Brodmann's number, and then the name that references where it is anatomically, and then it's also named after a person who did significant work on it. Like Brodmann 44/inferior frontal gyrus/Broca's area. Anyway, I'll stop bitching. Why are you going to take a neurotechnology class? What do you want to do with it? :)
Partially out of curiosity, partially to try something that's more out there for me, and partially because some of the people I work with use methods from it and I'd rather not have my barrier to participation be having zero clue how it all works.Anyway, I'll stop bitching. Why are you going to take a neurotechnology class? What do you want to do with it? :)