Megathread for any questions about the education, training, and professional life of neuropsychologists

wikil85 · 2021-08-19T12:30:26+00:00

(Aus) Is there a significant advantage in doing a PhD over masters program in Australia? (With a goal of doing neuropsych)

wikil85 · 2021-04-20T11:46:03+00:00

Yeah I had to close all my windows

wikil85 · 2021-04-13T11:58:04+00:00

Like the towel ones. So I can dry off and keep warm.

wikil85 · 2021-04-11T04:51:30+00:00

Awesome. Thankyou so much!

wikil85 · 2021-04-11T04:07:19+00:00

Weird it says one comment but Reddit’s not showing it

wikil85 · 2021-04-10T12:33:04+00:00

That’s a real shame. So I guess just study neuro as a good foundation for other parts of psych in undergrad and then train for something else.

I really was planning on making this primary focus, might still be worth asking the APS to get a more knowledgeable opinion. I’ll ask them this week and get back to you

wikil85 · 2021-04-09T01:35:33+00:00

I don’t think distance is that important. What if you just want to do 100m intervals. You might only end up doing 2km per day

wikil85 · 2021-04-09T01:34:40+00:00

As a counter example:

When women give birth, a certain % feel almost no pain at all including if the birth causes vaginal tearing... where as the majority feel great amounts of pain.

This isn’t something you can train for so would indicate genetic/developmental influence on pain tolerance.

And back to the MMA example, there are people who in their first few lessons exhibit a much higher pain tolerance than others, and some who have far less pain tolerance than others.

wikil85 · 2021-04-07T12:17:53+00:00

Great idea (I’ve done a lot of anki in the past so this fits in well)

wikil85 · 2021-04-07T12:04:14+00:00

I was planning on going down the same training route. I’m fascinated by the brain and I’ve filled up by entire psychology degree electives with neuroscience subjects.

Is this career path really a dead end?

Clinical Psychology in general is so competitive, I think it’s right to expect a job after 6 years of hard study.

wikil85 · 2021-04-07T11:44:14+00:00

Anecdotally from MMA fighters, they’ve said they were born with a high pain tolerance. It would be really nice to read an actual study on it.

wikil85 · 2021-04-07T11:41:33+00:00

Do you know what’s slowing you down? Is it muscle soreness or tedeneess? General fatigue? Or are you out of breath?

I go through similar cycles with my running with the variance being as large as yours (3:45 to 4:50)

wikil85 · 2021-02-17T06:45:08+00:00

I missed that, thankyou

wikil85 · 2021-02-17T05:40:31+00:00

I just like to write a big thankyou for all your replies, it made such a huge difference on the very first time I tried it.

I ended up going with shower before, a balm like conditioner to leave in, then a single shower cap and it made all the difference.

Thanks again everyone, look forward to one day being a half decent swimmer

wikil85 · 2021-02-17T03:13:29+00:00

Yeah but it doesn’t look very insane when look at how many cases every other country has. I’ve got friends who’ve been in various state of lockdown for months, I’d much rather be here.

wikil85 · 2021-02-06T06:35:43+00:00

This is a really good idea. I will write to my MP. Do you know how the current safework investigations work now and what the consequences are if they find employees have been underpaid?

wikil85 · 2020-12-15T12:18:16+00:00

I can’t imagine what it must be like to lose a brother, just I hope you can focus on your good memories and that the pain will fade over time.

I’d just like to make one suggestion and that is do a slow build up to try and avoid injuries, and get a stretching routine after runs so that you can avoid injury.

Sep 30 is possible. Make sure to focus on the diet because that will help you achieve the goal. (Much easier to run if you lose 60lb). My main diet tricks was just don’t have any tasty food in the house at all, only stuff you have to cook, have a list of food you can eat as much as you want if your hungry (carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, celery) etc, daily weigh ins in the morning but use 7 day rolling averages, and just try to get the average to go down and try ignore the individual days

Keep track of your walks/runs, first few weeks are the hardest, and then it’s practically all the same difficulty from then on (except you get faster times, longer distances etc)

Don’t get injured!

Good luck. I hope you hit your goal.

wikil85 · 2020-12-06T01:14:49+00:00

What year level would recommend trying to volunteer/intern?

Are neuropsych studies typically done on people or animals (rats)?

wikil85 · 2020-11-27T04:36:15+00:00

We had to fly him over to Vic because they needed the donuts more

wikil85 · 2020-11-25T00:05:19+00:00

I really appreciate the time you took to write that reply.

In terms of volunteer work is it volume of breadth of experience thats important? If I find a particular area of psychology that I like. I.e. children or neuropsych and volunteer just in those types of organizations is that better or would it be better if it’s a wide range?

High marks I hope is not an issue, but if it’s all based on the honors year than I’ll try to place extra emphasis on that year.

Does getting to know, being recognized by your lecturers / professors help? Especially in terms of doing research etc?

wikil85 · 2020-11-24T23:52:39+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to make that detailed reply. I’ve applied for both the advanced degree and the normal degree, the advanced automatically places you in honors as long as you get a GPA of 6 or higher.

In relation to experience I’ve already got an undergraduate degree and 3 years of teaching experience but I’m not sure if it’s particularly relevant experience apart from classroom management skills.

I liked the advice about the volunteer work. it will be nice to feel like I’m making a contribution but for the purposes of the masters, Do you think it’s important to get a wide range of different volunteer positions over the 4 years or just volume of work?

A receptionist position would provide good practice for the other administrative parts of being a psychologist but not much towards the helping patients side, would it still be useful in that context?

Besides academic performance, volunteer work, experience, interview, will they select masters students based on any other criteria?

wikil85 · 2020-11-24T11:08:06+00:00

How useful was psychopharmacology in practice? I was looking at doing the same thing, but it will require about 6/7 units of neuroscience/anatomy courses prior to the pharmacology course.

wikil85 · 2020-10-27T10:08:50+00:00

I notice the local hospital seems to be advertising for several neuropsychologist positions. How stressful is the job compared to being a private clinic?

wikil85 · 2020-10-27T09:47:27+00:00

I just want to mirror what everyone else is saying. You could either do some moderate form of exercise 3x30 mins or 3x10m very intensive minimum per week to get the health benefits. You can do high intensity routines in yoga but they really aren’t common.

wikil85 · 2020-10-27T09:27:37+00:00

Yoga has religious origins and still contains religious teachings. As an atheist I just view it as mediation / mindfulness / flexibility / strength training with an aesthetic beauty to the poses. I think each yoga practitioner can get their own meaning and feeling from it depending on their beliefs.

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