#tag!psych

[doingpsychology-blog]

Reading about coprolalia for a study I'm helping in the next few weeks, and it's really starting to interest me. I'll admit, I don't feel like I know anywhere near enough about Tourette Syndrome to start thinking about really probable causes of this, but that doesn't stop me asking lots of questions.

A lot of me wonders if it might be related to the mechanisms for coping with/producing stress, but at this stage I think all I could do if that were the case would be to show a correlation, and cause and effect doesn't really establish much - I'd be stressed too if I had ticks.

I really want to make this interest into a workable project, but I think I'm going to need a few more weeks of studying and thinking this over. I need to understand properly before I jump in there.

[doingpsychology-blog]

Obligatory introductory post

Hey there!

I'm Emma, and I'm just about to launch into third year of undergraduate Psychology. Having come to terms with my fear that I'll let too much of the oppertunity to learn slide, or I'll lose confidence in what I've already learned by forgetting that I actually do put a lot of work in, I made this tumblr to track my progress and to get used to thinking about running my own research project. I feel like my dissertation's going to be tricky, but maybe the relative anonymity of tumblr will be a good place to try and build some confidence, and hopefully generate some good ideas.

I hope to go onto a Neuropsychology masters once I graduate, but I don't know what I want to do with that yet. I feel like doing what I enjoy is the best policy, so I'm just going to see where it leads. I think it's a bit early to have anything set in stone, anyway.

So yeah, feel free to nudge me to chat about anything. I'll be posting neuro and psych things that I find interesting, and hopefully posting some project ideas. Any feedback on anything I post is more than welcome. I started this tumblr to get some proper learning done, so be my guest to join in.

Later!