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Seriously. I was so on the fence as a high school senior and (as a good Indiana boy) got an offer from Rose-Hulman to major in physics. Instead, I went to a SL
by thereticent 5y ago
Seriously.
I was so on the fence as a high school senior and (as a good Indiana boy) got an offer from Rose-Hulman to major in physics. Instead, I went to a SLAC and studied philosophy, eventually convinced a neuropsychology lab in a clinical psych PhD program to take a chance on me, and now study a bunch of neurological conditions.
This video made that old pull come back, but of course life has constrained me to stick with what I've got going. At least after almost 20 years I get to geek out with the MRI physicist on a regular basis.
My new goal is to be as giddy explaining brain function as Feynman is explaining just about anything.
- agumonkey 5y agoFor odd reasons I'm deeply interested by neuropsychology, is there a main journal to read ? mostly representation of the "somatic" self (and others), perception of emotions.
- thereticent 5y agoIt's very cool field, in my opinion. Some good journals for your topic would be Journal of Affective Neuroscience, and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. For books, I really enjoyed LeDoux's The Emotional Brain and Damasio's Looking for Spinoza. But the general neuropsych journals like Neuropsychology, Neuropsychology Review, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, The Clinical Neuropsychologist, and Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology touch on those topics as well, but not as consistently.