I’m a junior in high school and I’m going to attend an IB school soon. I’m really interested in psychology and how the brain works, so I’m thinking of going to med school, preferably in Europe, to study psychiatry. What classes am I required to take to enter a medical school for that study?

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Vertical displacement is an eye disorder where each eye see’s something and the brain has to work to put the images together. Basicall you see things double. I have horizontal and vertical displacement and can’t afford the therapy. There’s got to be some kind of treatment I can find online. Any [...]

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Ever since grade 9 when I first read Oliver Sack’s book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" I have became more and more interested in the field of psychiatry and neuroscience. I love learning about how the brain works and what can go wrong and how we come to treat it.
However [...]

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Is there some common symbols you can check from a book and tell what a dream means? Can dreams tell the future? Are dreams more like an indicator of what our mind is working on? Are we talking about a strong tool of psychology, or psychiatry? Or do you share the shamanistic view of people [...]

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Psychology really intrests me, like counseling people and understanding the way the brain works. I’ve always been interested in this kinda of stuff… Especially people with mental problems. I don’t say "mental problems" in rude way either. I would love to be a counselor some day… But i’ve read that psychologist don’t make all that [...]

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Since few months I am doing a lot of research on psychiatry because I am having a lot of concentration problems and depression continuously. I failed twice in 9th grade and sitting at home for 8 months. I am not some typical spoiled child, I just had more interest in computer games and I feel [...]

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which scientists are involved with the brain? i know the psychiatrist are (correct me if im wrong there)

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How effective are the current psychological techniques in the treatment of anxiety?
Has your anxiety been cured by CBT, psychotherapy or NLP? Just to tell something about my problem - I found that I can’t really relax entirely in front of people, especially strangers and that whenever I am expected to perform in front of an [...]

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…abnormality in the brain, then explain John Wayne Gacy:
"who interviewed Gacy and other serial killers in an attempt to isolate common personality traits of violent sociopaths; however, an examination of Gacy’s brain after his execution by the forensic psychiatrist hired by his lawyers revealed no abnormalities."
From Wikipedia
So the anti-theist atheist is going to tell me [...]

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So college is about to start and I’m having a really hard time deciding what to major in. I am listed as undecided right now - but I want to begin college with a major.
Anyways - things to know about me: I plan on going to med school. I love the brain (both [...]

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Has your anxiety been cured by CBT, psychotherapy or NLP? Just to tell something about my problem - I found that I can’t really relax entirely in front of people, especially strangers and that whenever I am expected to perform in front of an audience, an enormous sense of anxiety seems to grow inside and [...]

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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia has been around since 500 B.C. and scientists still have not found the cause. There are so many symptoms and they add on over the years. This mental illness affects 2 in every 10,000 children and takes up 25% of hospital beds. Only about 30% of all patients fully recover from schizophrenia. In this [...]

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If you had a degrees in both Psychology and Neurology: you could could perscribe medicine and you know everything a Neurologist knows about Psychiatry and the science of the brain and you have a degree in Psychology so you understand the mind. So I don’t see why you couldn’t do the same job as [...]

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I need advice as to what career I can pursue based on my interests. I am interested in philosophy and trying to figure out the nature of reality. I’m interested in how the mind works (or brain) and how and why certain substances/chemicals alter perception. Based on this, I thought I could be a psychiatrist [...]

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Let’s say a person is going through a severe bout of mental illness, Ie. Anxiety/Depression etc, can their cognitive functions be affected? For example: memory/forgetfullness, reasoning, perception, articulation, attention, information processing? And if so, if they are treated, can the brain improve?

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