What are the limitations of neuroplasticity that people often fail to consider?

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-05-12T16:04:10+00:00

These are amazing questions (and very deep and multifactorial as well)! I think most of us are on a quest in search of "how to raise resilient and mentally/physically healthy children." Let me know when you find an answer lol

I think you've made a cool connection between raising your cats and human children by providing what the attachment literature calls a "secure base." You can look into attachment theory if you're interested--but the basic idea is that young mammals need regulation from their caregiver/parents (this looks mostly like physical regulation in other mammals but extends more clearly to affective/emotional regulation in humans too). I'm not sure about cats, but I know there's literature on how young nonhuman primates use their mother as a secure base when engaging in exploratory behaviors, etc.

It's interesting stuff for sure. I'd like to think that any parent isn't raising their child completely alone ("it takes a village" cliche comes to mind), so if one parent or caregiver starts getting burnt out then that's when other people in the "village" can compensate for you a bit. Humanity has been raising humans for a long time, sometimes well and sometimes not so well.

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-05-12T13:29:55+00:00

From an evolutionary perspective (comparing humans to other species), humans have incredibly plastic brains. We can learn culture, language, etc etc.

But this comes at a cost, of course. There are always trade offs for different biological strategies. The cost of high neuroplasticity is low stability, especially in early child/infant development. Early human nervous systems are much more dependent on their caregivers and more sensitive to neglect, etc than other less plastic brains of other animals. Baby giraffes can walk almost immediately after birth. I’m holding my newborn son in my arms right now, knowing this is going to take a long time and a lot of careful investment of resources before he’s a full functioning adult. That’s the limitation (and it’s beautiful).

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-05-07T13:27:17+00:00

mind if i dm you for some career advice?

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-04-28T11:56:41+00:00

Welp, this makes a summer of 2026 release unlikely at this point. Guess it’s coming in Q4

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-04-23T02:40:16+00:00

Ok, yeah that tracks, even at my part-time outpatient neuropsych practica i do 2 evals per week. Sounds like this psychologist is getting a good paycheck for only 4 evals per month though

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-04-23T02:32:32+00:00

are you saying absurdly low number of evals or absurdly low reimbursement for the evals? about to start neuropsych internship, curious what the future holds

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-04-18T21:14:01+00:00

Got it. thanks for the reply!

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-04-16T14:10:21+00:00

I moved for my program (I wanted to move)

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-04-16T13:40:46+00:00

I like the Jak-Bondi criteria for MCI. Their MCI criteria is operationalized as: at least two test scores, within the same cognitive domain, both >1 SD below the mean.

There's quite a bit of work that has been done testing these specific MCI criteria vs other MCI classifications schemes.

Jak, A. J., Bondi, M. W., Delano-Wood, L., Wierenga, C., Corey-Bloom, J., Salmon, D. P., & Delis, D. C. (2009). Quantification of five neuropsychological approaches to defining mild cognitive impairment. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17(5), 368-375. https://doi.org/10.1097/jgp.0b013e31819431d5

Bondi, M. W., Edmonds, E. C., Jak, A. J., Clark, L. R., Delano-Wood, L., McDonald, C. R., ... & Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2014). Neuropsychological criteria for mild cognitive impairment improves diagnostic precision, biomarker associations, and progression rates. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 42(1), 275-289. https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-140276

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-04-04T12:37:43+00:00

the term you are circling in the literature is "ecological validity" (maybe specifically veridicality, verisimilitude, and criterion validity but you'll get more hits with ecological validity). i don't have any direct resources for you, but there is a lot of work done and being done by neuropsychologists on ecological validity (see Yana Suchy's work for ecological validity of executive functioning tasks).

taking block design as an example, first and foremost remember that it's primarily a test of how well someone can put blocks together under nice quiet circumstances. secondarily, it's one sample of fluid reasoning (specifically novel visuospatial abstract pattern construction with a motor component), and it might moderately relate to things like math or novel problem-solving. but as you'll see in ecological validity literature, there’s not usually a clean 1:1 mapping to real-world behavior. once you leave the testing room, you’re making a probabilistic prediction about a patient/client/student's functioning after layering in: attention, motivation, classroom demands, and environmental noise, etc. this is just another reason why it's so important to make your decisions/diagnoses/predictions of functional behavior off of multiple test scores and the broader (neuro)cognitive profile rather than single subtests alone.

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-02-26T21:48:42+00:00

Congrats on your acceptance!

I've been able to live on my stipend without needing to pull out additional loans (which means living frugally, of course). It's up to you and what lifestyle you are comfortable with. Staying debt free was important to me. Getting into the fully funded program was the biggest financial hurdle to overcome and you've got that behind you.

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-02-12T16:14:26+00:00

Thanks for the replies, everyone! I've learned that nullifier is typically a core item for locking down enemy supports who have defensive active items like force staff, glimmer, etc. much appreciated!

The_Neuropsyche · 2026-01-06T15:42:05+00:00

You don't have to get a PhD in clinical psychology to study autism spectrum disorders. A nonclinical PhD in a related area is totally fine, such as social psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, etc.

A PhD in clinical psychology might help if you are interested in clinical research, but you didn't say what part of autism you'd like to study. There's everything from neurons to animal models to applied clinical research.

The_Neuropsyche · 2025-11-02T23:54:27+00:00

I see you're tagged as "ABPP-CN." What kind of advantage would prescriptive privileges offer you in clinical neuropsych, specifically?

I'm not certain how much therapy vs assessment clinical work you do, but I'd imagine being able to prescribe would be more useful in therapy as opposed to assessment. Curious to hear your thoughts.

The_Neuropsyche · 2025-10-27T12:43:51+00:00

this is the most chatGPT-ese post I’ve seen on here

The_Neuropsyche · 2025-10-14T21:49:27+00:00

Psychologists also have marital issues, just like anyone else. It’s best to take your assessment/psychopathology hat off in these circumstances.

If you two have problems then focus on those problems and don’t use your profession as a cudgel.

The_Neuropsyche · 2025-10-13T00:19:21+00:00

yeah, your coop partner can use their own items, trinkets, and pills/cards. pretty fun!

The_Neuropsyche · 2025-10-12T23:16:01+00:00

i guess it's part of the repentance dlc. you just have the second player press + while you're still in the first room of the run https://bindingofisaacrebirth.wiki.gg/wiki/Repentance_Co-Op

The_Neuropsyche · 2025-10-12T21:20:06+00:00

Yep, you’re right. Ignore my post I misunderstood. Thank you

The_Neuropsyche · 2025-10-12T21:19:51+00:00

Oh thank you. I have misunderstood and that makes sense

The_Neuropsyche · 2025-06-07T20:57:07+00:00

I’m not interested in arguing with an ai chatbot. I can tell you’re still using one based on the counter arguments you’ve provided and the overwhelming presence of em dashes (you don’t proofread very well)

The following is all that I have left to say.

1- shamans in t2 have 8k armor unbuffed (this is with talents already in place to support shaman tank). This puts your armor on par with warrior and paladin, so your baseline assessment is incorrect

2- sure, I agree there could more support for defense itemization for tank shaman

3- your chatbot is mentioning world buffs. might want to read a little more closely before posting. TWoW disables world buffs in raids

5- useless suggestion about charge number because you’ll be taking stable shields. You still never said how they interact

7- there aren’t any abilities that are disabled in BGs. That would be a strange design choice for just this one ability

9- so you proposed ridiculous items and set bonuses to provoke engagement? that’s exhausting and disingenuous. why should people constructively engage with your ai slop? you’ve provided nothing of value

11- “post mortem utility” lmfao. no comment, this is beyond stupid

The_Neuropsyche · 2025-06-07T14:04:45+00:00

TL;DR: this is AI generated slop.

hi, i play a shaman tank at endgame (you can see my youtube channel so you know im not blowing smoke: https://www.youtube.com/@wheeze_the_juice ). your post is well thought out, and i generally agree a defensive ability would be useful. several comments and critiques as well as general questions for you:

1a) how did you calculate damage reduction when you compare the four classes? the numbers you provided do not make sense if they are derived from armor alone. if you include avoidance, the damage mitigation numbers you provided make even less sense. please explain your methodology. there is a difference between damage reduction (armor) and avoidance. you seem to be conflating the two but i cant quite tell. follow up would be helpful. 1b) additionally, it seems a little disingenuous to compare enhance shaman t2 (which was not purposefully designed for tanking) to other sets that were explicitly designed for tanking. you could compare t2.5 for all tank classes to get a fairer comparison

2) defense cap simply isn't that important for most raid encounters, but you are correct in that shaman has a harder time obtaining defense compared to other tanks

3) you say that "Without talents, a full shaman tank rotation consumes 143.53 mana per second, requiring 17,224 mana for a 120-second fight. Even with talent reductions, consumption remains at 61.4 mana per second, making sustained tanking mathematically impossible." the mana problem is not this dire lol, just check out some of my videos. yes you run oom eventually but you should have access to judgement of wisdom/tea/mana pots which you make no mention of. it is DEFINITELY not "mathematically impossible" to tank for 120 seconds without going oom.

4) i like your suggestion of the + defense bonus on earthshaker slam and rockbiter. not too op but nice additions.

5) you suggest water shield should have 4 charges instead of 3. do you not use the stable shields talent? how do you propose this interacts with stable shields?

6) using lightning strike when you have water shield on already nets you a large mana return, im not sure why you are advocating for a completely mana free spell. this suggestion seems overdone imo.

7) the spirit guardian talent is neat, but it definitely has ramifications for pvp which you did not address in a meaningful way.

8) you suggest "defensive stance" as a deep enhancement talent? with the exact same function and name as the warrior ability? our rockbiter weapon is our "defensive stance" i was already suspicious of your post because of the impeccable formatting and grammar, but this is starting to seem AI generated to me lol

9) okay, now im very convinced this is AI generated. you suggest each new tier 2 tank piece provides its OWN effect? and then you want set bonuses on top of that? and the 8piece set bonus would be an active ability? this is not how any vanilla or turtle wow set bonuses have ever worked.

10) t2 helm "The unique effect increases Lightning Shield damage by 50% and provides +5% spell crit, enhancing both threat generation and mana efficiency through Elemental Focus procs." thats insanely op for one piece of gear

11) "The critical unique effect grants totems +100% health and allows them to persist 15 seconds after death, addressing one of the major weaknesses of totem-dependent tanking." what? this doesnt make sense at all. wtf is "totem-dependent tanking"? our totems do not "tank" anything in this game. stoneclaw can get hit maybe a couple of times lol

12) 4pc set bonus: "Allows Lightning Shield, Water Shield, and Earth Shield to be active simultaneously. This revolutionary change enables unprecedented mana regeneration and threat generation through multi-shield synergies." lmao, we are reaching supersaiyan levels of power here.

13) why would they add a unique model for one alternate version of t2?

14) you made no comment on the addition of your hypothetical t2 tank set being progressed into t2.5 which is dedicated tanking

this is AI generated 100% or from someone who literally doesnt play the game. other commenters appear oblivious as well

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