My niece Wendy said last year that she wanted to be a neuropsychologist. I don't know if she still wants to - she is starting at UTC and hasn't said. I've been thinking about it and it's wandering around my mind that I might want to pursue that. I have a fascination with the brain and how it impacts our behavior. Plus, having MS - I have learned alot about how the brain can impact our health.
According to Wikipedia: Neuropsychology studies the structure and function of the brain related to specific psychological processes and behaviors. The term neuropsychology has been applied to lesion studies in humans and animals. It has also been applied to efforts to record electrical activity from individual cells (or groups of cells) in higher primates (including some studies of human patients).[1] It is scientific in its approach and shares an information processing view of the mind with cognitive psychology and cognitive science."
Check out this link: http://www.answers.com/topic/neuropsychology
Ever since I read Daniel Goldman's Emotional Intellignce and learned about the amydala, the brain has fascinated me. Not in an anatomical way but in how it works to drive our behaviors and actions. My friend Kimdric drove me in this direction too - when someone is witchy, she always wonders what happened in their day or their past that made them that way. What experience changed them and in my perspective, created inescapable amydala and neural pathways? Goldman called it being highjacked by your amygdala. He said that emotional intelligence is learning to avoid the highjack. I think in many cases, if the pathway is too well integrated, you'd have to amazingly cognizant of your every moment and thought to try. So much of life is reactionary. How can you avoid that and still be who you are?
Anyway, if anyone wants to comment and tell me what they think of me pursuing this maybe down the road, I'd love to hear it.
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