Ger Post (the Netherlands)
alumnus 2011
`The enthusiasm of the lecturers, the staff, and my fellow students is definitely contagious'
Once you realize that the brain is the most complex structure of the universe, you have two options; you either get depressed by the enormous amount of brain related questions that need to be answered, or you get a big part of your 100 billion neurons to find some answers. You will find students that choose the latter option at the Master Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Together with philosophy, neurobiology, mathematics, and language students, I (with a psychology background) have journeyed into the brain and so far it has been ‘a great adventure'. The enthusiasm of the lecturers, the staff, and my fellow students is definitely contagious. Classes are full of debates, we have been to London for a meeting with researchers at Birkbeck University, and I am conducting my research project at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. So, even though the brain is still an overwhelming structure, there is simply no time to get depressed.