Hello everyone, I’m an undergrad student currently taking a brain & behavior / neuroanatomy course. I apologize if this isn’t the best place to post this but I figured it’d be helpful to reach out to experts in the field. This is a critical course for my future career prospects so it’s important for me to actually understand how everything connects in 3D space rather than just relying on partial flat diagrams from my textbook.

Most of the free 3D brain apps I’ve found so far are far too basic (e.g. BrainFacts.org). They just show the main lobes or basic subcortical structures of the brain, but don't illustrate the smaller functional areas or how pathways actually cross over inside the brain.

I’m trying to find software, web tools, or physical atlas books that can help me visually trace things like specific visual subregions (like MT/MST) and Brodmann areas, step by step nerve pathways and crossovers (for example, how the auditory pathway travels from the brainstem up through the thalamus to A1), and clear cross-sections showing how subcortical parts (basal ganglia, thalamus, etc.) sit relative to each other in three dimensional space. I learn best when I can physically look through layers or rotate a model to see how things connect. Are there any 3D programs or atlas books you’d recommend for a student wanting more clarity?

So far I’ve found the following:

- Siibra explorer Ebrain (online)
- The Human Brain Book: A Visual Guide to the Structure and Function by Rita Carter
- A cheap physical Human Brain Model by Avarstic

Thanks!

I have been reading this book(Mind - The new psychology of success), I am just 20 pages in. But, I still don't understand how you can increase your intelligence. Ig I am a fixed mindset person. But, my understanding is: we can apply the intelligence we have to learn new things/concepts. I don't think we can increase our intelligence. Repetition and experience decreases our discomfort to learn new things. If you have different ideas or can explain how we can increase our intelligence go ahead. Very curious to know

Don’t have high expectations for this as I’m just a 16 years old guy that recently found the subject interesting, please correct me if I’m wrong and feel free to enlighten me more!

IQ, as of today, remains the most powerful predictor of future performance (other factors in life do play a hefty role, no one seems do debate that). IQ is meant to test an individual’s general intelligence (which encompasses both crystallised intelligence and fluid intelligence) by facing them to a set of questions for a diversity of abilities, this is known as the “g” factor.
So let’s say your result in a certain area is incredibly good, it would be a great predictor of your performance in similar areas. A person who does better across the board would be deemed as highly ‘intelligent’, and, vice versa, someone who does worse is more likely impaired. Yet this still depends on how we define intelligence, hence why it is an indicator of potential not a guarantee of success. The tests also seem to suffer from a ‘culture’ problem, in that the questions tends to resemble the academic world from where they’re born, and people who are more experienced with this setting then to score higher (richer people, more educated people, people that develop more abilities in the peak of fluid intelligence and have overall more crystallised intelligence).
I found controversy on whether or not “g” can be changed.
As while crystallised intelligence (knowledge but not solely that) continues to grow with the experience we collect for most of our lives, the diverse abilities from fluid intelligence are significantly harder to improve. Some research shows it is possible to better specific skills but improving broader skills is a whole other story (which is the reason it is preferable to develop them early in life). For example you could train your memory on sequences of numbers, but training your active memory as a whole would be much more complex. One should still try to push their brain to its optimal function through stimuli, exercise and a good diet (better diet to improve circulation which turns into improve cognition).
I like the analogy of IQ as a bucket. Someone with broader competences would have a larger bucket and someone with more restricted ones would have a smaller bucket. Both buckets are only half full, who results more successful depends on how the bucket is entertained: one can either fill it (training, well-being..) or empty it further (substance abuse, terrible health..).
It is worth noting that crystallised and fluid intelligence are not separate and rely on each other, both are equally as important.
Intelligence for me is the ability to adapt. Depending on the environment you’re in you need different sets of skills/abilities to thrive.
So in a society based around money, the abilities required to thrive will be different than the ones you’d need if you were in a small tribe in the mountains.

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2. ”Is anyone willing to describe a day in your life as a neuropsychologist/what personality is suited for this career?”
3. "What's the path to becoming a neuropsychologist"
4. "IAMA Neuropsychology Graduate in the EU, AMA"
5. "List of Neuropsychology Programs in the USA"
6. "Should I get a Masters Before I get my PhD?"
7. Neuropsychology with a non-clinical doctorate?
8. Education for a psychometrist
9. Becoming a neuropsychologist in the EU
10. Do I have to get into a program with a neuropsychology track?
11. How do I become a pediatric neuropsychologist?
12. "What type of research should I do before joining a PhD program in Neuropsychology?"
13. "What are good technical skills for a career in neuropsychology?"
14. "What undergraduate degree should I have to pursue neuropsychology?"
15. FAQ's and General Information about Neuropsychology
16. The Houston Conference Guidelines on Specialty Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology

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I just saw the press release for the article that came out yesterday from the Boston University group: ["Neurodegenerative mortality among National Football League players"](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(26)00304-4/fulltext). I provided the link to The Lancer article about it.

I'm wondering about everyone's thoughts here on the article, its methods, its interpretation, its findings, etc. I know that the research by the Boston University Group is controversial (to say the least), especially among the field of neuropsychology, so I wanted to see what everyone's opinions are. Statistical methods and the like are definitely not my strength (especially when it comes to non-psychometric topics), so I had a difficult time determining if the methods they used were actually appropriate and not just cherry picking. Here's some of my questions:

1. Did they try to control for confounding variables (e.g., NFL players frequently grow up in low SES environments, excessive drug/alcohol use)? All I saw was this, but idk what it really means:

>Sensitivity analysis assessed whether the observed excess neurodegenerative mortality could be attributed to competing risks using a cause-specific hazard simulation.

Are "competing risks" the same as confounding variables, or is it something completely different? I also don't see more details about what these "competing risks" are, so the point may be moot anyway.

1. In the same vein, is comparing to the expected death rate an adequate measurement for a control group? I know it's not the best, but does it suffice for the purpose/conclusion?

2. I know prior research in this area has suffered from selection bias (e.g., brains are usually only donated for CTE research if the family had concerns for CTE), which in my opinion is the biggest threat to the validity of this area of research, but this one seems to avoid that (at least when selecting athletes). Is there any possible selection bias here that I'm missing?

At first I thought that age in relation to neurodegenerative condition may be (i.e., that the sample is skewing younger and younger-onset neurodegenerative conditions are more aggressive, so the likelihood of death is higher), but the average of mortality is ~75 for all cause dementias. That's not crazy unreasonable. It is weird that they don't provide a breakdown of the ages of the sample, just the average (and SD) age of death for various groups. It makes it really hard to tell if the sample does skew a certain age.

1. Why is the average age or mortality 60 y.o.? That's super low.

I have more to talk about with this article, but this post is already far too long lol.

What information leads you to recommend consultation regarding a possible CTE? I'm not a neuropsychologist but I provide many adult ADHD and autism evaluations and the question has recently come up. Thanks in advance!

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2. ”Is anyone willing to describe a day in your life as a neuropsychologist/what personality is suited for this career?”
3. "What's the path to becoming a neuropsychologist"
4. "IAMA Neuropsychology Graduate in the EU, AMA"
5. "List of Neuropsychology Programs in the USA"
6. "Should I get a Masters Before I get my PhD?"
7. Neuropsychology with a non-clinical doctorate?
8. Education for a psychometrist
9. Becoming a neuropsychologist in the EU
10. Do I have to get into a program with a neuropsychology track?
11. How do I become a pediatric neuropsychologist?
12. "What type of research should I do before joining a PhD program in Neuropsychology?"
13. "What are good technical skills for a career in neuropsychology?"
14. "What undergraduate degree should I have to pursue neuropsychology?"
15. FAQ's and General Information about Neuropsychology
16. The Houston Conference Guidelines on Specialty Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology

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Just curious—why would a neuropsychologist schedule a results meeting before the written report is finalized? Is there a reason for that, or is that standard practice?

It came to mind recently that many people who are interested in neuropsychology do not know about this field, so I was wondering if anyone would be willing to talk about it from their experience.

Here is a general overview of the practice according to academic articles and from google more generally:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26848912/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7613143/

“Google: A career in neuropsychological brain mapping involves working closely with neurosurgeons to evaluate and map brain functions before, during, and after surgeries. They evaluate patients to establish baselines, map critical regions like language and memory, and guide surgical resections to preserve cognitive functions, often in real-time.”

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2. ”Is anyone willing to describe a day in your life as a neuropsychologist/what personality is suited for this career?”
3. "What's the path to becoming a neuropsychologist"
4. "IAMA Neuropsychology Graduate in the EU, AMA"
5. "List of Neuropsychology Programs in the USA"
6. "Should I get a Masters Before I get my PhD?"
7. Neuropsychology with a non-clinical doctorate?
8. Education for a psychometrist
9. Becoming a neuropsychologist in the EU
10. Do I have to get into a program with a neuropsychology track?
11. How do I become a pediatric neuropsychologist?
12. "What type of research should I do before joining a PhD program in Neuropsychology?"
13. "What are good technical skills for a career in neuropsychology?"
14. "What undergraduate degree should I have to pursue neuropsychology?"
15. FAQ's and General Information about Neuropsychology
16. The Houston Conference Guidelines on Specialty Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology

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Looking for recs for referral management software that will talk to by EHR, any leads?

Did anyone submit an abstract to the National Academy of Neuropsychology annual meeting in October? If so, have you heard if it was accepted/rejected?

I submitted a poster abstract and it said we would hear back at the submission email in June. However, I recently saw them posting about registration and volunteering. I don’t know how they expect student volunteers to know if they’re going or not, if they haven’t sent back abstract acceptances.

Edit: acceptance received on Thursday, June 25 at 2:09

I wrote a conceptual paper called Aliasing in Consciousness, proposing that some felt psychological drama may reflect coarse temporal sampling of experience, using aliasing as an analogy.

The paper connects this idea to predictive processing, attention, interoception, mindfulness, psychedelic states, and affective salience. I’m interested in whether the framework has any useful connection to neuropsychological thinking about attention, perception, affect regulation, and cognition-behavior relationships.

I initially treated the model as speculative and was hesitant to share it publicly. After receiving encouraging feedback from researchers in related areas, including Ulrich Ott and Robin Carhart-Harris, and early interest from researchers affiliated with Philipps-Universität Marburg in exploring whether the framework could be developed into a clinical model for future human-subject research, I thought it was worth opening up to broader critique.

I’d especially appreciate pointers to peer-reviewed literature on temporal processing, attentional granularity, interoception, salience, affective regulation, or neuropsychological models of subjective experience.

Paper: https://zenodo.org/records/19140110
Demo: https://shoqarqwa.github.io/aliasing-consciousness-demo/

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So here it is! General, specific, high quality, low quality - it doesn't matter! As long as it is, in some way, related to the training and professional life of neuropsychologists, it's fair game to ask - as long as it's contained to this megathread! And all you wonderful subscribers can fee free to answer these questions as they appear. The post will remain sticked for visibility and we encourage everyone to sort by new to find the latest questions and answers.

Also, here are some more common general questions and their answers that have crossed the sub over the years:

1. “Neuropsychologists of reddit, what was the path you took to get your job, and what advice do you have for someone who is considering becoming a neuropsychologist?”
2. ”Is anyone willing to describe a day in your life as a neuropsychologist/what personality is suited for this career?”
3. "What's the path to becoming a neuropsychologist"
4. "IAMA Neuropsychology Graduate in the EU, AMA"
5. "List of Neuropsychology Programs in the USA"
6. "Should I get a Masters Before I get my PhD?"
7. Neuropsychology with a non-clinical doctorate?
8. Education for a psychometrist
9. Becoming a neuropsychologist in the EU
10. Do I have to get into a program with a neuropsychology track?
11. How do I become a pediatric neuropsychologist?
12. "What type of research should I do before joining a PhD program in Neuropsychology?"
13. "What are good technical skills for a career in neuropsychology?"
14. "What undergraduate degree should I have to pursue neuropsychology?"
15. FAQ's and General Information about Neuropsychology
16. The Houston Conference Guidelines on Specialty Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology

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not sure if i’m wording this correctly, but what does one do at that point? like if somebody has a chemical imbalance in their brain, is there scientifically a way to make that better? does the brain ever repair itself, how so?

I'm finishing my final year of highschool and am going to university to study psychology. However, I've been a bit stressed because many say that the field is too saturated right now. I've thought of becoming a clinical psychologist for a while but recently became more interested in pursuing neuropsychology in my later years. But I'm not actually sure what they do; is it assessments, brain scanning and reports?

I made a rough diagram of the different paths related to psychology and neuroscience here: https://go.bubbl.us/f270f3/2cf5?/clinical-psych-paths-diagram

I think it could be useful for the education/training megathreads each week.

Also open to feedback if anything on there is inaccurate.

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2. ”Is anyone willing to describe a day in your life as a neuropsychologist/what personality is suited for this career?”
3. "What's the path to becoming a neuropsychologist"
4. "IAMA Neuropsychology Graduate in the EU, AMA"
5. "List of Neuropsychology Programs in the USA"
6. "Should I get a Masters Before I get my PhD?"
7. Neuropsychology with a non-clinical doctorate?
8. Education for a psychometrist
9. Becoming a neuropsychologist in the EU
10. Do I have to get into a program with a neuropsychology track?
11. How do I become a pediatric neuropsychologist?
12. "What type of research should I do before joining a PhD program in Neuropsychology?"
13. "What are good technical skills for a career in neuropsychology?"
14. "What undergraduate degree should I have to pursue neuropsychology?"
15. FAQ's and General Information about Neuropsychology
16. The Houston Conference Guidelines on Specialty Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology

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For those who have taken the written exam: do you have any advice? Did the exam feel fair? Is it a 50/50 mix of peds v adult questions? What practice tests felt most representative of the actual test?

Also - does anyone know what’s going on with the new form or other changes being made?

Hello all - I'm doing an audit of my current assessment practice. I've been thinking about switching from an unstructured, open-ended interview approach to a structured or semi-structured interview. I work in pediatrics, and most of what I see are kids with epilepsy, brain tumor, or cancer with a smattering of more neurodevelopmental cases (spina bifida, genetic conditions, etc). I rarely get mental health referrals. Usually mental health concerns are secondary to the medical condition and assessed through the kid's local provider.

I've looked at some potential options, and nothing seems to fit what I'm looking for. The K-SADS doesn't tap into the neurocognitive domains I like to assess for. I've seen something called the Neuropsychology Processing Concerns Checklist, which is closer to what I want, but it's a parent form and not set up as an interview.

Is anyone using a structured or semi-structured interview with ped neuropsych cases? Is that even a thing?