Technically, if you bath in rain water, which is acidic due to factories/cars(which won’t kill you), I guess that would work. =P
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I love one thing about this article I was reading saying that humans can’t think outside of the box.
We’re only capable of thinking inside of the box.
Makes sense.
I stopped watching House after the third season as I felt the actual medical/diagnostic stuff (which was the only interesting bit about the show) became significantly weaker, but I’m really curious as to how the last season ended, would any of the viewers kindly provide a tl;dr, that’d be great.
I also stopped watching it for the same reasons.
The repetition of rare diseases solely in NJ is stupid and unpredictable.
Rather just read a medical dictionary my dad has lying around.
I was reading about the use of light to control brain activity in the brain and I was fascinated by the research done by a psychiatrist himself.
I was sort of out of the zone when the article was talking about how his research team was able to target nerve cells through a protein found in photosynthesis microorganisms.
I kept thinking about people with schizophrenia and psychosis and eyes.
How a particular person sees something which isn’t physically there.
Having psychosis myself, I see things often in dark places.
If we would figure something that correlates visible light with brain activity and find a way to control it, that will definitely make a significant impact.
If they find a way to see how schizophrenia and psychosis people respond to different lights and the impact it has on their episodes, we can find something huge.
Definitely a good thesis paper.
They have changed the DSM after 30 years.
The specific changes are in schizophrenia and autism.
I’ll need to buy the Discovery Mind magazine tomorrow.
Let you know about it in more details by the end of the week.
You can always look it up online if you want.
Jupiter’s Moon May Have Clues of Life
Europa, Callisto and Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, are all believed to have liquid oceans beneath their icy shells, as well as organic chemistry and possible sources of energy beyond the dim amount of sunlight that reaches their distant surfaces. These are all conditions that may be required for life in much more distant planetary bodies.
A newly proposed mission, The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, nicknamed JUICE, would send a spacecraft to study the three moons and their habitability.
Mission planners selected Ganymede as an archetype of an exoplanet water world like GJ 1214b, a super-Earth discovered last year circling a star about 40 light-years from Earth.
Europa poses an intriguing model to those exploring the possibility of alien life because its buried ocean is believed to be in direct contact with the moon’s silicate mantle, a source of salts and other elements. Europa is thought to be like exoplanets that are between water worlds and Earth-like bodies.
Callisto was selected because it is the only known example of a non-active, but ocean-bearing world, Prieto Ballesteros said.
JUICE’s job will be to characterize the moons using cameras, multiple-wavelength spectrometers for chemical analysis, magnetic field detectors, particle sensors, sounders and radio science instruments. With them, JUICE will be able to assess the moons’ underground liquid reservoirs and analyze their surface chemistry, including any organic compounds.
This week, the European Space Agency’s Science Program Committee selected JUICE from among three projects vying for funding. It will now be considered by representatives from the European Space Agency’s 19 member states on May 2.JUICE’s competitors are an X-ray telescope for high-energy physics called ATHENA and the NGO observatory designed to search for gravitational waves.If selected, JUICE would launch in June 2022 and reach Jupiter in 2030. The mission is designed to last 3.5 years.
I love Discovery magazine.
That reminds me, today’s new issue comes.
(Source: news.discovery.com)
The problem I keep seeing with most science books is the lack of connections going from one chapter to another.
There are a quite a few outstanding books, but mostly, we’re given a fresh new topic and expected to know everything in the chapter.
Going through my dad’s old human physiology/anatomy books, I’ve noticed the disorganization of the chapters being laid out.
This is truly my opinion and I’m basing it on how I remember it, but I will never understand why the muscles and skeleton are usually the first few chapters and then they mix it with endocrine system or reproductive system.
Firstly, the first chapter should either be the cardiovascular system or the nervous system.
How the fuck are you teaching someone the respiratory system or the endocrine system before the cardiovascular system.
I see the human body inside and out.
Starting from how the system works inside to how it works its way outside.
The skeleton and the muscles are insignificant to me.
Not to say they aren’t important, but that cardiovascular is the main system that connects the dots.
Connects it with the ears, eyes, respiratory system…
Learn how the heart works.
Learn how the brain works.
Learn the core functions of the cardiovascular system and nervous system and everything will come along.
Good luck folks.
DS.
reblog for my pre med folks.
I think the most fascinating thing in the world is gravity.
No one really knows how gravity works and the mystery keeps us on our toes.
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Case Study: EH’s bipolar development
Please check out the last post for how bipolar disorder may develop. In EH’s own words, “The earliest symptoms I think are less symptoms and more a personality type since as far as I can remember (7yo)— whimsical, permanently happy and carefree, occasionally very existentialist like I understand the whole universe. Disease onset was junior year of college. During the summer before junior year, I had the best summer of my life: doing research at [a hospital], sleeping maybe 4 hours some nights and going back to work on the weekend, when usually I am a very heavy and regular sleeper. I had all the energy in the world to walk 2 miles to the market and carry all my groceries home, then spend all day by the river at a festival, and every aspect of my day was the most fun exciting thing ever. This was extended hypomania which I hadn’t experienced in this prolonged intensity. In the fall I had my first [significant other], who fell into the ‘totally uninteresting category’ until I became totally obsessed to the point that I was skipping school and even failing the majority of my classes half way through the semester. What made this notable for me in retrospect is the fact that I had never behaved this way and it was very unusual for me to obsess like that. My therapist and I now identify it as ‘catatonic thinking,’ or raging thoughts. “My first clinical depression came in spring my junior year. I cried for basically no reason 6-7 times per day plus I couldn’t sleep, and would skip class to nap or cry for 1.5 weeks. I am close with my mother, so she came down to visit out of concern. After two days trying everything she could to cheer me up, she had to leave because she was so sleep deprived and distressed at my relentless despair that she developed hives. Shortly after this episode, I binged and threw up, both to relieve anxiety, which, in retrospect, was my second clinical symptom. This lasted off and on until I started taking lithium (very weirdly THE DAY I started taking lithium thank goodness!). The final and clinching diagnosable episode was the week I was manic, skipped work for a week, bought a car I couldn’t afford, slept approximately 5 hours each night with lots of energy to bake or go for a run (which is dangerous in my part of the city) in the wee hours. “None of these things that I have said meant anything to me before my friend from lindy hop dancing lessons convinced me to see a doctor. He was diagnosed that summer with a sudden progression of his symptoms due to a concussion from a car crash the previous spring. The two of us had joked with the same sense of humor, we shared the same intensity regarding dancing, and had similar relationship patterns in our lives. I am lucky that he noticed the same traits in me which turned out to be symptoms because it is not often that bipolar is caught at the early stages that mine was. Many of the terrible things that you hear are from people in their thirties- it’s rare that someone at my age, 26, actually has full blown destructive bipolar. Mine barely stepped over the line into clinical bipolar before it was identified.”
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Case Study: EH’s bipolar development
Please check out the last post for how bipolar disorder may develop. In EH’s own words, “The earliest symptoms I think are less symptoms and more a personality type since as far as I can remember (7yo)— whimsical, permanently happy and carefree, occasionally very existentialist like I understand the whole universe. Disease onset was junior year of college. During the summer before junior year, I had the best summer of my life: doing research at [a hospital], sleeping maybe 4 hours some nights and going back to work on the weekend, when usually I am a very heavy and regular sleeper. I had all the energy in the world to walk 2 miles to the market and carry all my groceries home, then spend all day by the river at a festival, and every aspect of my day was the most fun exciting thing ever. This was extended hypomania which I hadn’t experienced in this prolonged intensity. In the fall I had my first [significant other], who fell into the ‘totally uninteresting category’ until I became totally obsessed to the point that I was skipping school and even failing the majority of my classes half way through the semester. What made this notable for me in retrospect is the fact that I had never behaved this way and it was very unusual for me to obsess like that. My therapist and I now identify it as ‘catatonic thinking,’ or raging thoughts.
“My first clinical depression came in spring my junior year. I cried for basically no reason 6-7 times per day plus I couldn’t sleep, and would skip class to nap or cry for 1.5 weeks. I am close with my mother, so she came down to visit out of concern. After two days trying everything she could to cheer me up, she had to leave because she was so sleep deprived and distressed at my relentless despair that she developed hives. Shortly after this episode, I binged and threw up, both to relieve anxiety, which, in retrospect, was my second clinical symptom. This lasted off and on until I started taking lithium (very weirdly THE DAY I started taking lithium thank goodness!). The final and clinching diagnosable episode was the week I was manic, skipped work for a week, bought a car I couldn’t afford, slept approximately 5 hours each night with lots of energy to bake or go for a run (which is dangerous in my part of the city) in the wee hours.
“None of these things that I have said meant anything to me before my friend from lindy hop dancing lessons convinced me to see a doctor. He was diagnosed that summer with a sudden progression of his symptoms due to a concussion from a car crash the previous spring. The two of us had joked with the same sense of humor, we shared the same intensity regarding dancing, and had similar relationship patterns in our lives. I am lucky that he noticed the same traits in me which turned out to be symptoms because it is not often that bipolar is caught at the early stages that mine was. Many of the terrible things that you hear are from people in their thirties- it’s rare that someone at my age, 26, actually has full blown destructive bipolar. Mine barely stepped over the line into clinical bipolar before it was identified.”
Looked at my e-magazines AND GUESS WHAT.
THE NEW MAY DISCOVERY MAGAZINE IS OUT.
MOTHERFEER YES.
They even have an article on psych medications.
MOTHERFEER YES.
I can’t read it till this spring break though =’[
Discovery magazine is the BOMB.
Another pointless post.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Scientists have found the physical location of the memory called engram.
This discovery will hopefully help treat memory disorders more effectively.
Erasing the neurons that are linked in the amygdala, which holds the emotional memories such as happiness, fear, and anger, can remove the feeling of fear one suffers from Post traumatic stress disorder.
It will just remove the fear that person has experienced during that traumatic experience, not the experience itself.
(Source: discovermagazine.com)
This man is insane.
Connectome maps neurons together and hopefully help us understand how the brain works.
Also in his research, he said that this model can help neurologists understand mental illnesses in a more better spectrum. They can view the defected wiring of the neurons and the lost of transmitting signals from one neuron to another.
Amazing Amazing stuff.
He predicts that it might take a few decades to build an entire map of the brain.
(Source: discovermagazine.com)
