The brain and nervous system are not topics widely covered at A Level, so I am extremely curious about concepts such as movement, perception and memory and would be interested in studying the fascinating complexity of the brain, a structure controlling important human and animal functions such as memory, thought, emotion and the senses. Research into the central nervous system, it seems, is limitless. The brain, despite being so directly relevant to us, is only recently being understood and therefore there is still so much to learn. Not only am I fascinated by what we know, I am also interested in what we don’t. Learning physiological studies in psychology, such as Maguire’s study into the plasticity of hippocampi in taxi drivers and Sperry’s
