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I've had three lectures with Brian Armstrong and at this point I refuse to address him as Professor or Dr. Armstrong. He doesn't deserve those titles. Honestly all he's good for is telling you how drugs will molecularly mess up your brain. And seriously, do I need a class to tell me this? No. I can simply look up this information off the internet or ask around. I mean this would be a very popular class at a university, so maybe I would think differently of him if I was taking a pharmacological class from him, but I'm not. I'm taking a neuroscience class has been dumbed down and listed under the psychology department.


This man is a complete joke. First he starts off by trying to suck up to us, telling us all about how he truly bleeds blue and gold for doing his undergrad and graduate work here. Great! He knows all about this course. He's been through it himself! He also goes on to say that he thinks he can teach this course better than the professor who is teaching it during the school year. At this point, I'm thinking GREAT! I'm so glad I'm taking this in the summer. Once he starts lecturing, I change my mind. Phy Sci profs can do a much better job than he can. Thank goodness the majority of the students here know how to memorize facts that barely scratch the surface of information, otherwise all you guys would FAIL if this was a real south campus class.





So not only does his lecturing style needs work... his lectures are filled with wrong information. He doesn't know the layers of the cortex, he has no idea how monoamine oxidases work nor their inhibitors. He obviously failed neuroanatomy back in the day and has no adequate knowledge in any other field besides drugs to be lecturing about them. He also said that the nerves that innervate our eyes go through the supraorbital fossa. It's technically called the supraorbital foramen... and actually they go through the superior orbital fissure.. which he called a bone. It's a f*ckin' hole in your sphenoid bone.


Armstrong probably walks around with his head held high. A young hot shot lecturer at a fine university like UCLA. Doing research on what he loves, teaching what he likes.. brainless students with no background whatsoever in neuroscience or any kind of science at all sucking his balls and feeding his ego. Glorious right? We should name a building after him.