Mindfulness Medication

  Hey team, I have been thinking a lot about disgust recently as that is the core feeling I align with when observing and reflecting on certain behaviors of others, and myself, that truly remind me of a striking lack of maturity and where I believe psychological stagnation lies. Though these traits are subjective to me, I also believe that they would be hard to defend as pillars of healthy, mindful, role-model behavior and often are the opposite types of behavior of the people we view as traditionally virtuous and well (healthy and happy). This is part of my own shadow. The shadow isn’t necessarily evil but rather the antithesis to the virtuous traits we attach to and present to the world, so if feeling that these traits are NOT me they indeed are, they are just the qualities that lay hidden from the surface, waiting for the everything to fall into place to blossom them (manifestation of disgust) to existence. This is likely why it is easier to see in others, or even my past self, ...

Hey team, Over the past 2 weeks or so I've been reading the book "Trees of the Brain, Roots of the Mind" by Giorgio A Ascoli. I always just refer to it as "brain trees" hence the name of today's post. The book is about 200 pages and for a book that short, I learned a lot about neurons (the cells of the brain and nervous tissue). I'd like to briefly go over some of the information I've come to understand and greatly appreciate.  The book serves to present some major principles of neuroscience and the mind-brain connection. One of the principles is that unique mental states correspond to the subjective experience going on in our heads, both what we are aware of (ex. talking, eating) and the kind of stuff going on in our heads that we aren't fully aware of (ex. short-term memories being transferred into longer-term storage). Any memory, any feeling, and any moment can all come down to a specific and unique mental state. But what is a mental state? A...

 Hey team, Today is Friday, March 8th and I have a pharmacology exam on antibiotics and some other antimicrobial agents in a few hours. Antibiotics are not something I have put much time into in the past or really seen much of. Of course I know what antibiotics are and vaguely how they work (as in before starting the lectures on the content) but not like my background on psychiatry drugs or even cardiovascular drugs. This was definitely something new and not something that was particularly easy.  First off there are a TON of antibiotics, some are super similar like all of the beta lactams (penicillins, cephalosporins, ect) but from there they are not. There really are only about 3 mechanisms overall though (cell wall inhibitors, DNA inhibitors and protein synthesis inhibitors)  however there are tons of differences between various agents that ultimately have the same target. Also some drugs have weird ass side effects or weird little quirks that really must be remembered....