a glimpse of sparkle -- ��I

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 11:57:58 08/13/09 Thu
Author: EC
Subject: a glimpse of sparkle

A glimpse of sparkle is the moment of excitement when one finds the "click" with sth that just gets hooked onto one's heart.

I have been thinking about my interest in the field for a while. As you all know, I am the queen of multi-tasking!!!!! So, when there are many options among which I have to pick one that I am particularly interested in, it is very hard for me as I am often interested in quite a few things.

And back up a little bit, during the process of searching my career interest, there are two topics popped out in my head: neuropsychology (brain and nervous system with behavior, cognition and emotion) and trauma (traumatic experience and resilience). Yet, I never know how I can combine two topics together. At least I can't find any prof. doing both at Fuller. Therefore, I made up my mind to stay with neuropsy. lab as it was not easy to jump back into the neuropsy. track.

The glimpse of sparkle happened yesterday in class when a researcher talked about resilience (a capacity to protect one from facing adversity), brain plasticity (simply speaking, the function of brain is not fixed and can often change) and social and relational factors (eg: interpersonal relationship). He said that resilience is the capacity owned by every one. The matter is not whether you have it or not but whether you exercise your muscle of resilience. Based on a holistic view of humankind, resilience can be understood in many perspectives, including mental, social, physical, communal, individual and etc. Indeed, the support on brain plasticity informs that new neural connections are constantly created even during the adulthood and the elderhood. AND most importantly, social and relational factors are crucial resilience enhancing factors.

THEREFORE, now I have a bit more information to narrow down my interest: (drum rolling~~~~~~)

The relationship between resilience and brain plasticity, in which how social and relational factors enhance both.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]