I truly believe that all the 1 star reviews are overreacting. this subject is the most interesting and intellectually stimulating subject i have taken in my degree so far. it is true, as you may have read below, that it has some admin issues like ed discussion not being monitored, and its sometimes tricky to synthesise exactly whats important from the slides because there are no learning objectives. thus, to do well in this subject you need to actually get involved and thinking about the content and ACTUALLY watch the lectures. this is NOT the subject for you if you just want to cram in the last 2 days before an exam by chucking the slides into chatgpt. people are complaining about the lectures, thats simply because instead of there being a lump of text on the slide, peter will actually verbally explain a diagram. apparently everyone has become unable to think. i could spend all day here contradicting all the negative comments. i really enjoyed this subject and found myself (for the first time ever) actually telling my friends and family in my own time about what we've been learning about. if not for the terrible admin i would give this subject 5 stars! this is probably the most important review for you to read if you are considering taking the subject! please try to be realistic and ignore any overly negative comments (someone said the subject is awful and they are disgusted... hahaha pls)

just a heads up. the 4/5 star reviews below are just my friends trolling haha pls don't take them seriously. listen to the 1 star review instead

Peter is so cute 🥺 His lectures made me feel Fuzzy inside Btw I am not trolling

Highly intellectually stimulating topics. Lots of content, but if you keep up with the lectures, a H1 is highly achievable. Definitely one of the best subjects I've took so far. The coordinator, Peter, is highly engaging and knowledgable too

I know there's a lot of hate for this subject, but I personally think it was one of the more interesting ones during my study. I think majority of the criticism is in regards to the delivery of the subject--not much resources, general clarification & support in ways that many students are used to, in the form of Ed Discussion tutorials etc. Don't think the hate train is quite justified: This subject just trains you to learn differently by forcing you to synthesise relevant information from the lectures in your own way. I really enjoyed the content overall and while it was content-heavy, the final exam was definitely more lenient.

RUN DONT WALK away from this subject!!!!!!!!

I really disagree with the many 1 star reviews. This subject was difficult but super interesting. There was a lot of nuanced psychological stuff that i personally thought was really cool. Peter's lecture slides were frustrating but if you write down what he says for notes rather than just focusing on the slides then you'll be fine. A lot of people complained about the subject in the Ed Discussion but I think it was quite clear that it wasn't being monitored by staff (which is common). Emailing these questions to Peter (as he offered) or talking to him after a lecture would have been the smarter option. I didn't do amazingly on the MST but that's on me for not studying - and helpful feedback was given for the questions which isn't usually given. If you're someone that likes to learn interesting things further than just how synapses work and what the serotonin is, you will like this subject - its one of the most intellectually stimulating ones I've ever taken.

would give 0 stars if i could. fully agreed with all the 1 star comments below. so disappointed. Coordinators don't care about students feedback and 0 support.

Do not take if you don't have to, super poorly structured. No learning objectives, lecturer goes on random philosophical rants with basically nothing on his lecture slides anyways. MST was really hard and random. Content changes sporatically every lecture and feels jumbled.

Worst subject I have ever taken. Do not take unless required. Peter (the subject coordinator and main lecturer) is the bane of my existence. His lectures are SO bad - no text on slides, rambles on about random things. Content wise, lectures seem simple, then the assessments contain concepts that you don't even know when they taught. Took NEUR20001 so I thought this one would be building upon it, considering this doesn't even have any prerequisites. Completely wrong. No idea what is going on in this. Awful awful subject. Absolutely awful. Disgusted.