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3 Websites Everyone in Psychology Should Know About

Hi, my name is Audrey-Anne Gaudette. I am eighteen years old. I have been studying Social Sciences for a year at Montmorency College. My field of study is psychology. Therefore, a psychologist evaluates people that have atypical behavior or mind. They help people with mental illness like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, etc. This listicle is relevant for someone entering, studying or working in psychology because these websites demonstrates new methods, new research and different ways of treatment. They reveal the uniqueness of the human brain. It can be useful to anyone who wants more information about those subjects.

1. Different types of psychology.

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There are many ways of practicing psychology. Indeed, the human behavior differs according to each person. Some techniques can be useful for some but completely useless for others. This is why there are different types of psychology. Each specialty requires a training to perform it on a patient. They all have a specific purpose to relieve the patient. Every one of then is useful because they have different perspectives on problems. For example, abnormal psychology is completely different from social or sport psychology. This website is important because it shows all the possibilities of a future psychologist. It explains the major branches of psychology and therefore help to clarify their differences and their uses. It gives people information about other types of psychology that are less mentioned but who are as important as behavioral or cognitive psychology.

2. The importance of neurotransmitters in the brain.

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Neurochemicals are essentials to the human brain, but they can also be responsible for diseases. The level of dopamine or serotonin in the brain can affect people’s behavior. These two neurotransmitters affect the perception and the reaction of those individuals. They can be the cause of Parkinson disease or depression and even other disorder. Using drugs regularly can lead to mental problems because of their terrible impact on the brain. It is now possible to measure the level of dopamine or serotonin activity in the brain by using the "fast scan cyclic voltammetry". This new method could cure people with tremors or even Parkinson’s disease by understanding those neurochemicals. This website should be known because it explains how dopamine and serotonin control the decision-making of every person and when they are altered, it can provoke atypical behavior and sometimes mental health issues.

3. The consequences of bullying on the brain.

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Bullying or negligence lived during childhood can have serious consequences of the development of the brain. Being constantly bullied can cause self-harm, disorders, depression, anxiety, etc. An experience, realized over a long period, shows with the help of an MRI that those who have been mistreated have more generalized stress and the regions associated with movement and learning are significantly less functionals than other teens. According to the researchers, the consequences should be almost the same for people who suffered a lot of bullying. Those traumatic experience and the environment surrounding the child can be responsible for important changes in the brain and possible mental illness in the future. The cortisol in the body can be one of the possible explanations of this phenomenon because it is the stress hormone. Cortisol is used only when danger is perceived and when it’s used excessively, it can negatively affect the body and the brain. Therefore, mental illness can be caused by traumatic events. It is important to know the reason behind the pain of a person to be able to treat it.

Conclusion

The purpose of this listicle is to help lead students into a specialty in psychology according to their preferences. Also, it's useful for anyone interested in psychology because it includes new research and developments that was inaccessible a couple years ago. It gives new information to the reader. Did those websites help you learn something new about psychology?

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