Anesthesiology

Sola dosis facit venenum

[the-art-of-medicine]

RBC Abnormal Morphology

Weiterlesen

[physiologicdeadspace]

Richard Quain, Anatomy of the arteries of the human body (1844)

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[er-cryptid]

Arteries of the Kidneys

[nicsstudiess]

Gotta keep those neurons kicking during the break 🙃

Follow me on Instagram @nicsstudiess to see more!

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BEST MNEMONIC EVER

(also my regular expression in semester)

source: insta @neet.usmle.centre 

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[neuromedical]

Looking at something truly gross

People, usually: Eww, what the fuck is that *looks away*

Med students: Eww, what fuck is that *looks closer*

[docresa]

The award for cutest protein goes to:

Kinesine. (anterograde microtubuli-associated transport protein)

[physiologicdeadspace]

Christoph Jacob Trew: Tabulae osteologicae

[the-art-of-medicine]

Brain Anatomy

Cerebellum - located at the back of the brain beneath the occipital lobes 

Functions: 

Fine tunes motor activity or movement

Assists in maintaining posture, sense of balance or equilibrium, by controlling the tone of muscles and the position of limbs 

Important in one’s ability to perform rapid and repetitive actions

Frontal Lobe -  largest of the four lobes 

Functions:

Motor skills such as voluntary movement, speech, intellectual and behavioral functions

Plays an important part in memory, intelligence, concentration, temper and personality

Occipital Lobe - located at the back of the brain 

Functions:

Enable humans to receive and process visual information

Influence how humans process colors and shapes

Temporal Lobe - located on each side of the brain at about ear level

Functions:

Involved in visual memory and helps humans recognize objects and peoples’ faces

Verbal memory and helps humans remember and understand language

Allows humans to interpret other people’s emotions and reactions.

Parietal Lobe - 

Functions: positioned above the temporal lobe and behind the frontal lobe

interpret simultaneously, signals received from other areas of the brain such as vision, hearing, motor, sensory and memory

[the-art-of-medicine]

Neuron Anatomy

Dendrites - short, branched extensions that receive impulses from the environment or other neurons toward the cell body

Soma (cell body) - the largest part of a neuron, containing most of the cytoplasm and the nucleus

Axon - the long extension that carries an impulse away from the cell body

Myelin sheath - insulted membrane surrounding most axons separated by small gaps (nodes of Ranvier = ‘nodes’)

Axon terminals - branches at the end of an axon

Nerve - bundle of axons and dendrites from many neurons

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[soul-vintage-deactivated2019031]

[allthingsneuro]

The Boy Who Grew a Brain

Noah Wall was born with only 2% of a brain (left), spina bifida and severe hydrocephalus. Doctors predicted that even if he survived, he would suffer severe mental disability and have limited mobility for the rest of his life. 

After surviving his birth, Noah only improved with time. His parents worked with him to learn and grow to live as normal a life as possible, and doctors were stunned with the progress he was making. After 3 years, Noah was scanned again and the results showed his brain had grown to over 80% the size of a normal, healthy brain (right). Noah continues to live a happy life and progress even more, and his unusual case sheds light on the incredible capabilities of the human body and brain.

For anyone interested in learning more about this case, there is a great documentary made by Channel 5 (UK) in the Extraordinary People series about Noah (The Boy With No Brain). For those of you outside the UK the doc is also available on Youtube.

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