This is the 2nd day of psych posting. I LOVE IT!The prof is quite strict, and he loves asking questions all the time, so we have to be prepared ALL the time. But, i love it! its really challenging and interesting. its like poking into someone's mind.
the hard part is about anatomy and physiology of the neurons and neurotransmitter. neurology is one of my weakest subject because of some certain events that made me lost my interest in neurology when i was learning it in my 2nd year. however! i vowed to master this topic even if i'd lose an arm and a leg XP.
it is also tough that the diagnosis is mostly through observation of the patients and talking with the patients. and the symptoms sometimes overlap with each other. and its not really something that can be confirmed by listening with a stethoscope, or palpating a mass, or percussion of the chest or any imaging (unless the cause is organic). so, mainly, you'll have to be really observant, and you'll have to know how to talk to patient and make patient talk to you.
anyways, the interesting part, yeah, its true that everyone has some mental disorders in varying degrees. mental health really is important in our life, because it affects our entire being.
anyways, this week is all about lectures on introduction to psychiatric problems and such. next week we're gonna visit the mental hospital. heard from our seniors it would be interesting. can't wait to find out about it XD
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Dendrites branch out from the soma, the soma sends information via action potentials down the axon, and at the end of the axon are the terminal buttons where the neurotransmitters are sent across the synapse to the receptor sites at the dendrites of the next soma...?
Is that anything like what you're learning about now? Or is it the same general stuff, but you're learning about other things more?
hum..we learn bout neurotransmitters, and their sites and their pathways in the brain. basically brain anatomy and brain physiology. i guess its something like neurology all over again XD
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