3% of Neuroscientists are here for revenge

I was curious how people got into neuroscience. Random happenstance? A lifelong love of gap junctions? So I asked about it on twitter and got hundreds of responses. I did a quick analysis of about half the responses, putting them in different categories. It quickly became clear that certain themes were popping up again and again: It doesn’t surprise me too much that a lot of people became interested in neuroscience for a special reason: they cared about learning or decision-making or free will..