Reply to comment

Hi Everyone!

I'm Stephanie. I'm a senior Psychology major and Education minor at Haverford. I planning on going to graduate school next year either for a master's in speech-language pathology or for a psyD in clinical chlid psychology. I am from Arizona and I love the West coast. I'm enjoying being on the East coast and will probably go to grad school out here, but I hope to ultimately return to the West.

I am very interested in discussing neuroscience and its effects for education, especially ways in which neuroscience can better inform our teaching methods. I also look forward to thinking about ways for children to think about neuroscience and the brain. As an education minor, I am enrolled this year in a year-long senior seminar for education and I think I will draw on my education perspective in this course.

I am also interested in psychological disorders that affect children and also the different treatments for these disorders in children. One interesting issue in the field I'd be interested in discussing is the idea of "medicating children." Should we do this? The pros? The cons? Long term effects?

Another interest of mine is language and its relationship to the brain. Language is uniquely human and no other species possesses this complex ability. Language ability can be affected by certain neurological and psychological disorders, and I look forward to exploring this further in this seminar.

I think research in neural and behavioral sciences is very important for human well-being in many different arenas, including education, health, health care, mental health. The more we can learn in the field of neural and behavioral sciences, the better. I think human well-being will benefit from the knowledge that this research generates in many different ways, but especially through health care.

See you all in class on Tuesday night!

-Stephanie