I'm currently at PsychCentral with the same username, so I'm not sure if I should make a thread in here but I am anyway. Right now I'm finishing up my undergraduate (HBSc) and waiting to hear back to do my Masters degree in the field of neuroscience/neurophysiology, rehab science, physiology, infectious diseases and cancer, pharmacology or kinesiology. It's a long list since my interests are not within just one particular area and I realized all those areas are inter-related. I'm here to gain insight into various pathologies as I've read them in books and papers or perhaps wrote a research paper for a course but never even communicated with someone who is afflicted. I'm also here to perhaps learn a bit of myself.

Ever since I was a young kid, I had an excellent visual memory and to this day, if I think of something or somewhere, I can almost "see" it in front of me and run through it all in my head. There are a few exceptions, such as I'm horrible with street names and addresses, although it's not math-related as I'm pretty good at math, I've taken several university level courses. In particular, if someone asks me for directions or I want to go somewhere, the only way I can figure out the layout is memorizing how everything looks, where landmarks are and even small details, such as the number of cars in a driveway, the colour of houses (as best as I can manage given I have poor colour vision). My father can almost intuitively know his cardinal directions, that is, he'll accurately know where North, South, East or West are, while I'm left guessing as I truly have no idea. My watch has a small compass built in, although it's now damaged but when it wasn't, that was the only way I could know where North was.

I seem to have written a small novel here, it was not my intent.

Welcome to the Sister Forum!

There is alot of great info to be had, so make yourself at home! Since you are with the other forum, you're familiar with the layout. The folks here are warm and caring, very nice atmosphere.

Your ambitions are impressive and I wish you well in your endeavors!
It's great to have you!

Rae

Oxidopamine,

Hello and welcome to NeuroTalk. Happy to see you have come to be with us. Great to have you here with us. Just jump in and join the fun.

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Darlene