Author: Dr Minn
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Domains of Brain Functioning
Simply put, cognition encapsulates all the brain processes involved in helping us perceive, receive, learn, store, use, generate, and communicate information and knowledge. In neuropsychology, we break down what is essentially a massive and potentially nebulous construct and think about it in more concrete terms, so that we can begin to assess and measure this…
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Types of Patients We See
If you’re curious about the types of people who come to seek our services in the neuropsychology clinic, scroll through this series of infographics I’ve put together below. In short, we see geriatric patients (defined as those 65 years and older), middle-aged patients, younger adults, as well as school-aged children. A note on working with…
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Journey of Becoming Dr Minn
This is a visual summary of my journey from clueless – but nonetheless ambitious – student to the clinical neuropsychologist I am today. I have written (and will be writing) about the main phases below in a lot more detail in my other posts, so feel free to check those out!
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Is Neuropsychology For You?
It is not every day that one wakes up and decides to be a neuropsychologist. Many an aspiring student has approached me asking about neuropsychology and wondering whether they have what it takes to enter the field. Therefore, I decided to put together this infographic. It basically consists of what I feel are important attributes…
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My Undergraduate Days in England (Part 3 The Finale)
My walk down (undergraduate) memory lane culminates with a story about Moses*, the red-footed tortoise, to whom I dedicate this post. In my previous post I mentioned a reptilian friend, and also alluded to some gender confusion. Moses was the beloved pet of one of the PhD students in the lab, AW, who was a…
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Acceptance of Awake Craniotomy in Asians
We believe sound research goes hand-in-hand with good clinical work, which is why our awake brain surgery team try to publish when we can. While we are an academic health institution, most clinicians do not have official time set aside for research. It really is the passion for the subject matter and drive to do…
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My Undergraduate Days in England (Part 2)
Summer of 2005 – most students had gone home for the holidays, and the UoY campus was quiet and serene. As I had landed the bursary that would support a month-long internship with the Behavioural Neuroscience lab, I needed to find somewhere to live on campus for the summer. I had to move into a…
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My Undergraduate Days in England (Part 1)
I thought it might be helpful to describe at length how my undergraduate days were like studying Psychology. You will recall from my previous post that I had made a somewhat coin-toss decision* to study Psychology in the University of York in northern England. It was a BSc (Hons) degree that was to be completed…
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At Crossroads (What Undergraduate Degree Do I Study?)
This post is about how I ended up studying Psychology at the undergraduate level. The year was 2003, in the month of June. I had just received my Cambridge GCE Advanced Level (A-Level) certificate from Taylor’s College in Malaysia*. I remember well the setting of the great hall in which we collected our results slips,…