Hi,

I'm new here....

So to meet a few ppl I was just wondering if anyone shared my interests in biology, neuroscience, etc.

It would be cool if you could explain why u are interested in such amazing fields, how your interest began, etc.

Hi there,

welcome,

I can answer that implicit question affirmatively,

it started when I was 6 and got several books from my great uncle, who was an ichthyologist

Well describe it!  I wanna hear about it! It sounds fascinating!

Btw, what's an ichthyologist?

Yes, neuroscience. It became an interest when I was about 13/14 (I'm 26 now). Like most of my special interests, I don't really know why. Of course, I was always interested in science, and also stuff related to the brain, like the anti drug education we got, as well as various disorders like MS and epilepsy. But that's different from a special interest - where I "need" to know as much information as possible about that one specific topic. It was neurons.

Now I'm still interested in neuroscience (finishing my Masters, applying to do a PhD) but it's a regular interest now. My special interests usually have something to do with neuroscience. Right now it is 'reward processing'. When I joined this forum, it was 'the amygdala'.

I don't really know how these begin and why. They do seem to build on from each other, like my previous obsession was MDMA, drugs and then addiction, so the next logical thing would be reward processing I suppose. And I don't know why the neuron obsession became the one that kind of ruled my life.

This is probably a poor definition, but an ichthyologist is a fish scientist.

I am interested in neuroscience, but not to the point of it being a special interest.

Yes, but I don't know that much about it.

I am interested more in the mind of mammals than their biology.
But I am interested in the biology of reptiles

Definitely!

Mycology (since age 4 ish). Couldn't say WHY I have this special interest, lol, I think I might actually have been born with it

Chemistry, inorganic, organic both. As a project I have in mind, as soon as I have some spare cash for parts, I'm going to build myself a UV-VIS spectrophotometer, for analytical work of my finished chemistry projects. What I'd like to do once I get it up and running, is make a second to tinker around with, and see if I can't come up with a broad-bandwidth spectrophotometer thats switchable between UV-VIS and IR, using different light sources, and a high-resolution webcam with the infrared filter over the lens removed.

My other scientific interests are genetics (although as yet I haven't built the equipment-centrifuge, electrophoresis chamber, electroporator (which uses electric pulses to open transient holes in living cell lines, allowing for DNA/RNA etc. to be absorbed and expressed), and if I could pull it off, maybe even my own PCR machine, that would be neat as hell!)

Neurochemistry/neurophysiology and cognitive neuroscience. I find the study of cognition, and ways to make it more efficient fascinating. As well as how psychotropic drugs manifest the effects that they do. I've had some very interesting experiences in that field, including, through the use of alpha-methyltryptamine, being able to get into a cognitive state where I could pick through the bones of my PTSD, and work on it. It has been a great help. Not an action of the drug itself, as in 'curing PTSD, pop a few milligrams of powder, wait, be cured'

But as a catalyst enabling one to enter mindstates compatible with coming to terms with the cause of my PTSD, it has been of tremendous help.

As well as natural history, botany, toxicology, forensics,medicine,pharmacology, generally the natural world.also.