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You probably are smart enough. It’s never to late to learn and contribute.
This is true. I pivoted from EE to Neuroscience after several years in industry.
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This is true. I pivoted from EE to Neuroscience after several years in industry.
did you pay for your Neuroscience degree out of pocket>
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This is true. I pivoted from EE to Neuroscience after several years in industry.
How do you feel your daily neuroscience work is more interesting to you than your previous EE work? The brain fascinates me and sometimes I think of a similar change.
My goal is to develop better neural interface technologies to both learn about how the brain works, and also to deliver therapies for patients with conditions like paralysis or psychiatric disorders.
happy to chat - feel free to email me: etrautmann at gmail dot com
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How do you feel your daily neuroscience work is more interesting to you than your previous EE work? The brain fascinates me and sometimes I think of a similar change.
I'm working to develop novel brain recording technologies to create brain machine interfaces. I get to use all of my EE background, but apply it to problems at the interface of basic neuroscience and medicine. My goal is to develop better neural interface technologies to both learn about how the brain works, and also to deliver therapies for patients with conditions like paralysis or psychiatric disorders. happy to c…
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This is true. I pivoted from EE to Neuroscience after several years in industry.
How did you manage that? Graduate degree in the field? I dont have a bachelors degree so thats probably the biggest hurdle for me (and I've run the number several times I cant afford to go back). Even in support roles I imagine the culture of the companies in the field place a lot of weight on academic credentials.
I was very lucky, but also had already received a BE and an MS, then worked for two years in industry before applying to PhD programs.
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Sometimes I wish I was smart enough to have gotten involved with things like neuroscience. I watched part of a lecture on certain brain functions a good while back, regarding the mechanics of various mental illnesses, and it was incredibly fascinating. Such a powerful organ that we simply can't understand well enough.
You are definitely smart enough. The problem is that most neuroscience is extremely incremental and often boring/useless. People like the idea of "working with the brain", but since we have no idea what we're doing, they just end up doing the 237th paper on the regions whose activity is "modulated" by the hippocampus, etc., etc.
To the people in this thread advocating antipsychotic medication for anything other than treating psychosis and as an adjunct for severe depression, don't. These medications are serious things for serious situations and can have unexpected effects on you mentally. I went on them in my early twenties due to a nervous breakdown, and while they stopped the endless loops of thought and insomnia (I ended up sleeping ten h…
Fear of losing natural sharpness has had me avoiding antidepressants, which I should probably be on. Just too much fear about losing edge for math/programming.
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Several years ago I experienced a (thankfully temporary) severe reduction in brain function, for several weeks. I was shocked by the truly abysmal diagnostic capability of modern neuromedicine for anything less than large-scale physical trauma. In my case, they couldn't pin down a cause at all, except to say that the symptoms were consistent with a viral infection of the CNS. What virus? Who knows, we can only test f…
Man, I would like to hear any details on the situation at all that you are willing to provide. When it happened, what you felt like during the experience, what happened upon recovery… The whole thing.
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Several years ago I experienced a (thankfully temporary) severe reduction in brain function, for several weeks. I was shocked by the truly abysmal diagnostic capability of modern neuromedicine for anything less than large-scale physical trauma. In my case, they couldn't pin down a cause at all, except to say that the symptoms were consistent with a viral infection of the CNS. What virus? Who knows, we can only test f…
When neurologists just postulate virus to explain the problems like you had, they are just BSing. Oliver Sacks described many cases of neurosyphilis in his books. These doctors are just extrapolating based on that.
Things like these makes me realize how little we know about the functioning of brain. Manipulating brain digitally would be perhaps one of the biggest technological revolution after industrial revolution.
Sometimes I wish I was smart enough to have gotten involved with things like neuroscience. I watched part of a lecture on certain brain functions a good while back, regarding the mechanics of various mental illnesses, and it was incredibly fascinating. Such a powerful organ that we simply can't understand well enough.