Medical Textbooks (PDF versions)

Hi Everyone!!

I was asked by @dankamphetamemes to share my holy grail textbooks and I did, but I thought I’d do you guys one better. I recommended that you should check them out in PDF versions before you buy them because honestly they’ll burn a hole through your pocket - so I gathered all the books I use and a couple of others for you to check out!! 

Heres a list of books you’ll find in my google drive:

- Robbins and Cotran’s Pathological Basis of Disease

- BRS Pathology

- Lippincott’s Biochemistry

- Lippincott’s Pharmacology

- Physiology by Linda Costanzo

- BRS Physiology

- Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy

- Gray’s Anatomy Flashcards 

- Unfortunately I couldn’t find a PDF version of Medical Microbiology by David Greenwood - Ill keep looking and upload it when I find it

Extra books/flashcards:

- Guyton and Hall Textbook of Physiology

- Clinical Microbiology made ridiculously simple

- Netters Anatomy Flashcards

- Snells Clinical anatomy by regions

If you happen to face any trouble downloading them or accessing them shoot me a message and let me know

Here’s the link - enjoy!!

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByVv1ccrvWveUGVuZFRCQWp3MDQ&usp=sharing

UPDATE!!

Hi everyone - I’ve added the following books to the drive!

- Atlas of Histology

- BRS Embryology

- BRS Gross Anatomy

- Gray’s Anatomy Review (really good MCQs)

- Guyton and Hall Physiology review (MCQs)

- High Yield Immunology

- Medical Pharmacology at a Glance

- Microbiology with Diseases by Body Systems

Let me know if you have any specific books you’re looking for :)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByVv1ccrvWveUGVuZFRCQWp3MDQ

UPDATE - MORE TEXTBOOKS!!

Hi everybody - I’ve added the following books to the drive

- BRS Cell Biology and Histology

- Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine

- Mechanisms of Clinical Signs

- The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations, Muscoloskeletal System- Vol 6, Part III 

- Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine,19th Edition

- Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine, 22nd Edition

- Emery’s Elements of Medical Genetics, 14th Edition

- BRS Pharmacology (MCQs)

- Lippincott’s Illustrated Q&A Review of Histology

- Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews; Immunology, 2nd Edition

- Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology

Heres the link:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByVv1ccrvWveUGVuZFRCQWp3MDQ

Solid advice there, oxford handbook

Human skull lateral view

Carbon dust on gessoed illustration board

Unexpected Murder Weapons

Photographer Ed James captures photographs of ordinary inanimate objects that were once used as weapons in cases of murder.

Eight Ways to Remember Anything by Alex Lickerman M.D.

Reference: Research-based strategies to boost your memory and keep it strong via psychology today

China Opens World’s Coolest Library With 1.2 Million Books, And Its Interior Will Take Your Breath Away

Wilhelm Braune - Anatomy of the Human Head, “Topographisch-Anatomischer Atlas”, 1867.

No this isn’t a T2 Flair MRI – it’s an illustration from 1867, black and white and inverted. Art predicting technology.

Here’s the original: http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2014/08/high-.html

This fake brain actually has the same consistency as the real deal. So now you know how concussions happen! 

All my datafiles…contained in jelly…

ALEXANDER POHL

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(noun) A German untranslatable word, vorfreude is defined as the intense euphoric sensation you experience from thinking about future plans and daydreams. This beautiful feeling is a natural reaction the human mind manifests from expectations of future pleasures and joyful anticipations, such as planning a trip, going on a date, and many other fulfilling, life-changing events.  (via wordsnquotes)

Ten core principles necessary for the remodeling of your brain to take place:

1. Change is mostly limited to those situations in which the brain is in the mood for it.

If you are alert, on the ball, engaged, motivated, ready for action, the brain releases the neurochemicals necessary to enable brain change. When disengaged, inattentive, distracted, or doing something without thinking that requires no real effort, your neuroplastic switches are “off.”

2. The harder you try, the more you’re motivated, the more alert you are, and the better (or worse) the potential outcome, the bigger the brain change.

If you’re intensely focused on the task and really trying to master something for an important reason, the change experienced will be greater.

3. What actually changes in the brain are the strengths of the connections of neurons that are engaged together, moment by moment, in time.

The more something is practiced, the more connections are changed and made to include all elements of the experience (sensory info, movement, cognitive patterns). You can think of it like a “master controller” being formed for that particular behavior which allows it to be performed with remarkable facility and reliability over time.

4. Learning-driven changes in connections increase cell-to-cell cooperation which is crucial for increasing reliability.

Merzenich explains this by asking you to imagine the sound of a football stadium full of fans all clapping at random versus the same people clapping in unison. He explains, “The more powerfully coordinated your [nerve cell] teams are, the more powerful and more reliable their behavioral productions.”

5. The brain also strengthens its connections between teams of neurons representing separate moments of successive things that reliably occur in serial time.

This allows your brain to predict what happens next and have a continuous “associative flow.” Without this ability, your stream of consciousness would be reduced to “a series of separate, stagnating puddles,” explains Merzenich.

6. Initial changes are temporary.

Your brain first records the change, then determines whether it should make the change permanent or not. It only becomes permanent if your brain judges the experience to be fascinating or novel enough or if the behavioral outcome is important, good or bad.

7. The brain is changed by internal mental rehearsal in the same ways and involving precisely the same processes that control changes achieved through interactions with the external world.

According to Merzenich, “You don’t have to move an inch to drive positive plastic change in your brain. Your internal representations of things recalled from memory work just fine for progressive brain plasticity-based learning.”

8. Memory guides and controls most learning.

As you learn a new skill, your brain takes note of and remembers the good attempts, while discarding the not-so-good trys. Then, it recalls the last good pass, makes incremental adjustments, and progressively improves.

9. Every movement of learning provides a moment of opportunity for the brain to stabilize – and reduce the disruptive power of – potentially interfering backgrounds or “noise.”

Each time your brain strengthens a connection to advance your mastery of a skill, it also weakens other connections of neurons that weren’t used at that precise moment. This negative plastic brain change erases some of the irrelevant or interfering activity in the brain.

10. Brain plasticity is a two-way street; it is just as easy to generate negative changes as it is positive ones.

You have a “use it or lose it” brain. It’s almost as easy to drive changes that impair memory and physical and mental abilities as it is to improve these things. Merzenich says that older people are absolute masters at encouraging plastic brain change in the wrong direction.

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

Reblogging cause why not

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Hyphema is the term for a collection of blood inside the front part of the eye. Blood may cover part, or all, of the iris and can block vision.

Another Halloween-ish science fact: Bone density! Support Science Fact Friday on Patreon!