Your brain is you!

Everything you think, feel, see, hear, and do is mediated by your brain. It holds your memories, creates your dreams, lets you learn, controls your muscles, and tells your body when to eat and sleep. It's where your consciousness comes from! Pretty cool, huh? Neuroscience is the study of the brain and its interactions with the body. We (Stefanie and Erin) are neuroscience graduate students at Emory University. This website is a way for us to answer all of your neuroscience questions. You can also read questions asked by others.

Here's how it works:

Email your questions to braininfo@gmail.com. You can include your name, grade and school if you want. We'll put your question on this website along with an answer. If you really stump us, we might ask a professor! Check back often for new questions.

Why do you want to be a scientist? Is it hard?

Because it's fun! You get to do experiments all day long, work with your friends, and make up your own projects. Every day there's something new going on. You get to do lots of different things all the time, like running experiments, analyzing data, and going to conferences, instead of just sitting behind a desk all day. Being a scientist can be hard sometimes, because you have to really think about everything you do. But that's also part of why it's fun. Every day there's a puzzle to try to solve - how something works, why something happens, or trying to predict what's going to happen next. There are a lot of discoveries out there waiting to be discovered!