Thursday, August 30, 2012

Neuro Approaches to Social Behavior - Prologue

What's up everyone! My name is Christopher Mazis, but you can call me Chris for short. I'm a junior this year, majoring in Neuroscience, minoring in Chemistry, and am a Global Health Candidate. I'm from the most legit state in the US, New York baby, and I'm proud to represent NY here at Duke. That being said, I'm pumped for this year and even more stoked to finally be taking courses I'm interested in (Pre-med courses have had me swamped). I enrolled in Neuro Approaches to Social Behavior for a few reasons. First off, the field of Neuroscience fascinates me. It's constantly changing and new discoveries are being made all the time. They say our mind is limitless and so studying the mind can never get tedious as there is always something cool and new to discover. That being said, I wanted to get away from the biological aspect of neuroscience (I get enough of that in Fundamentals) and branch off to see how neuroscience functions with other disciplines. Secondly, I'm enrolled in Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Brain Neurohumanities, and felt another neuro class that relates the inner workings of the mind to social behavior would be an excellent chance to give me a well rounded neuro packed semester. I took Psych Stats with Dr. Harris last year and I liked his teaching style, so I thought i'd check him out in his element, and so far, I think it was a great choice.

Well, that's my motivation, I look forward to working with y'all this semester and don't forget to follow my blog! Ill try to leave funny pics/videos in addition to some interesting facts and my own opinions about various neuro related topics. Catch ya!