The author reflects on how growing up with therapist parents shaped their understanding of psychology and neuroscience. Listening to their parents discuss patients' cases imprinted the importance of mental processes in the author's mind. This psychological foundation laid the groundwork for their academic journey, culminating in a position as a neuroscientist. Now leading a lab at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, they study how neural circuits enable flexible thinking by integrating old and new information, a concept deeply rooted in their upbringing.
These lessons still greatly affect how I view the world, and now, as a neuroscientist, everything I think is filtered through these imprints.
I listened as they explained how they sought to realign their patient's cognitions and emotional responses.
We concentrate on the processes that allow us to switch between previously learned and new information, which enables us to think and behave flexibly.
The background chatter of my childhood... internalized how they viewed mental and behavioral processes.
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