Finance or Neurons: Which Career Path Is Right for You?

[avant-garde]

Which would you rather have as a career: finance/economics or neuroscience? Why?

 

[Raizy]

I'd choose neuroscience because studying the brain would be more interesting. Maybe become part of that research for life extension, intelligence increase, chemical imbalances/mental illnesses, etc.

 

[david90]

finance so I can be good with money.

 

[Math Is Hard]

There's always neuroeconomics:

Neuroeconomics is a recent consilient discipline (that is, a discipline that combines the principles of other disciplines to produce a comprehensive analysis) that measures brain activity while experimental subjects make decisions. Because the brains of all animals are "economic," that is, they have limited resources to achieve necessary goals, neuroeconomics experiments are not limited to studies of human beings, but have also employed apes, monkeys, and rodents. Economics is the study of constrained decision making, and it uses both mathematical and statistical models of the decision goals and outcomes without considering the mechanisms leading to decisions. Neuroscience has focused primarily on cataloging mechanisms without considering the purpose of decisions. For this reason, neuroeconomics is a natural combination that draws from the best of, and extends, both fields.

from:

Neuroeconomics Explained, Part One
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-moral-molecule/200811/neuroeconomics-explained-part-one

see also:

Neuroeconomics Explained, Part Two
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-moral-molecule/200811/neuroeconomics-explained-part-two

 

[kingdomof]

Neuroscience, since I like doing crazy neuron science.