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Friendly reminder from your neighborhood family doctor:

You don’t need to see a specialist for every body part you have. Believe it or not, primary care doctors can treat your arthritis, your high blood pressure, your depression, AND manage your birth control. And we consider the how a medication affects your whole body when we write a prescription rather than fixing one part to the detriment of other parts.

In 1938, neonatologist Ingeborg Rapoport submitted her doctoral thesis — which she then waited 77 years to defend. A student in Nazi Germany, she was barred from taking her oral exams because her mother was Jewish. This past May, the 103-year-old finally took her oral exams and received the degree originally denied to her, making her the oldest recipient of a doctorate degree. Learn more about this incredible woman at JM26.org 

How to spot signs and symptoms of Breast Cancer 

A very common misconception within the south asian community. So glad she addressed that. (x)

Her name is Gazal Dhaliwal and she’s a screenwriter. She talk about her life here and here.

She’s the writer for Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, an upcoming Indian coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama with a lesbian couple.  She was also the dialogue writer for Lipstick Under My Burkha, which depicts the secret world, including the sex lives, of four small-town Indian women. She contributed to the screenplay for Wazir and Qarib Qarib Single. 

Brain Anatomy

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

Frontal Lobe -  largest of the four lobes 

Occipital Lobe - located at the back of the brain 

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

Parietal Lobe - 

Researcher explores how information enters our brains

Think you’re totally in control of your thoughts? Maybe not as much as you think, according to a new San Francisco State University study that examines how thoughts that lead to actions enter our consciousness.

While we can “decide” to think about certain things, other information — including activities we have learned like counting — can enter our subconscious and cause us to think about something else, whether we want to or not. Psychologists call these dispositions “sets,” explains SF State Associate Professor of Psychology Ezequiel Morsella, one of four authors on a new study that examines how sets influence what we end up thinking about.

Morsella and the other researchers conducted two experiments with SF State students. In the first experiment, 35 students were told beforehand to not count an array of objects presented to them. In 90 percent of the trials, students counted the objects involuntarily. In a second experiment, students were presented with differently colored geometric shapes and given the option of either naming the colors (one set) or counting the shapes (a different set). Even though students chose one over the other, around 40 percent thought about both sets.

“The data support the view that, when one is performing a desired action, conscious thoughts about alternative plans still occupy the mind, often insuppressibly,” said Morsella.

Understanding how sets work could have implications for the way we absorb information — and whether we choose to act or not. We think of our conscious minds as private and insulated from the outside world, says Morsella. Yet our “insulation” may be more permeable than we think.

“Our conscious mind is the totality of our experience, a kind of ‘prime real estate’ in the cognitive apparatus, influencing both decision-making and action,” Morsella said.

The new study demonstrates that it’s actually quite easy to activate sets in people and influence what occupies the brain’s “prime real estate.”

“The research shows that stimuli in the environment are very important in determining what we end up thinking about and that once an action plan is strongly activated its many effects can be difficult to override,” said Morsella.

The study’s findings support Morsella’s passive frame theory, which posits that most thoughts enter our brains as a result of subliminal processes we don’t totally control.

— Notes from ED

Same tbh

To all my female-identifying colleagues.

Best demonstration ever 👍 #studyblr #medblr

Laws of Productivity, No. 1: “Get started.”

Benign vs Malignant

Benign tumours are//malignant tumours are

However,  Benign tumours are often the precursors of malignant cancers.

Tumour Progression - from benign to malignant 

Tumours become less well differentiated and more aggressive with time. 

as you get older, you realize that you’re not always right and there’s so many things you could’ve handled better, so many situations where you could’ve been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.