I chose to study about Phycology: Advances in Neuroscience. As I read about the brain and how the advances came about, I found it interesting how less than a few hundred years ago we new little to nothing about the brain. The theory of the brain was more emotional than it was physical, as shown by Aristotle’s viewpoint that the brain was, “as a refrigerator, cooling off the fiery heart.“ From there the scientist of the day began to look more closely at the brain and began to experiment to figure out what makes the brain tick. Since that time scientists have ever been in search of that very question.

Though scientists have learned much over the last century about the inter workings of the brain. That number pales in comparison to the amount