August 27, 2011
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I’ve been making my way through the entire archives of Paul Bloks in Prospect Magazine, where he wrote about his experiences as a neuropsychologist. While I can’t say that the introduction to this awesome field has made me doubt my recent choice of career change, I am sure that I’ll be closely following the research and developments by Bloks and those like him. Where psychiatry searches for drugs to mostly tamper unconventional psychological experience, the field of neuropsychology seems to hold space for the curiosity of human life. The ways we make sense of ourselves and the world around us, in relation to how operational our brains are. What I find myself asking is, what’s a fully operational brain? Aside from all the physical expectations of what should be included and excluded inside our skulls, how can there be a standard amidst our diversity? And if we decide, someday, on a criterion for brain performance, will we unwittingly be further subjugating the extraordinary or unorthodox among us?
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