Hello everyone,

These days I am thinking of this area for my future study. First of all, I do not totally understand what neuroscience is.

I read related Wikipedia article and a thread here.

I kindly request some advices. Here is some explanation of myself.

I will get my bachelor's degrees in **Computer Engineering** and **Mathematics**. I am making double major. I find it fascinating to learn information from human body (or any living creature) and use this information to build a machine or adapt a machine to this idea. This information can be anything such as an estimation of which sample is dense without exact counting etc. These are charming things.

Until now, I thought (I am still thinking of course) I would focus on pure machine learning especially artificial neural network. I said pure because I would not care clinical side of my learning process. Nowadays, I read some articles, news etc, and I am thinking of neuroscience. I love Machine learning and I want to do it based-on clinical facts. Thus maybe I make a small contribution to understand the brain a little bit more.


I suppose that my interests come together in *Computational Neuroscience*.

If you still in there, here is my questions:

- Is my study area which contains no biological background a problem for neuroscience? I do not think so but I want to be sure.

- Is it too late to jump into the neuroscience from my area? (same issue). How hard to get biological (and also psychological) background from the zero point?

- How is the environment? Neuroscientists always study in a research lab?

- Which countries are good at Neuroscientific study?

I have applied some PhD programs already. For example Hong Kong Polytechnic. My prospective advisor focuses on biometrics and artificial neural networks. Is these far from the neuroscience? For instance, I tend to make post-doc on computational neuroscience, biometrics does not help me?