EPQ on treatments for Parkinson's.
Forum: A-levels
Posted By: MickeySimpkins
Post Time: 28-06-2017 at 20:03 (Source: The Student Room)
Source: The Student Room - June 28, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: forums
PS Advice
I'm currently writing my PS and am having a little difficulty. My interest in medicine is primarily in the brain, specifically stuff like Parkinson's, stroke, TBI, neurodegenerative diseases etc. I've worked in 3 different research labs that all focused on the brain ranging from neurobio of metabolism, exercise, memory, and movement disorders. I published a paper on movement disorders as well.
All of the research is what made my want to pursue medicine but many have asked me why I don't...
PS Advice (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - May 21, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: boogiecousins94 Source Type: forums
BP in brain stims?
So we do a lot of brain stims for Parkinson's. And the surgeon requires a blood pressure of sbp<130 thru the entire case BC she says it is unsafe and can lead to hemorrhage above that SBP.
Anyone with experience in these cases? We don't have many surgeons doing this here so I am wondering what your experiences are for these cases.
It can get a bit annoying since patient goes from sedated to fully awake to test the stim and some of them freak out/get rly anxious and their bp goes up and...
BP in brain stims? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - April 15, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: waterbottle10 Source Type: forums
UC Berkeley Extension Classes - Professor/Class Reviews
Has anyone taken these class with these professors at UC Berkeley Extension? Could anyone comment on the quality of professor and level of difficulty? I can't seem to find any recent threads on this...
Genetics (online) with Susan Parkinson
Immunology (online) with Monica Ranes-Goldberg
Immunology with Amy Morgan
Physics 1 with Violeta Grigorescu
Physics 1 Lab with MinHua Zhu
General Chemistry 2 with Kent Lau
Introduction to Human Physiology (online) with John Placyk
Human Physiology...
UC Berkeley Extension Classes - Professor/Class Reviews (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 26, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: castingdoubt Source Type: forums
PC strikes again
So the WHO wants us to stop using geographical or personal names etc... to describe diseases as this could lead to discrimination. Note the worry - discrimination , not confusion. No more German measles , swine 'flu etc... No more Parkinson's. Just think of the interpretation by the public : Parkinson's disease eliminated. Ebola should go as it suggests a place of origin and might give Africa a bad name.
Some rational system for medical nomenclature should be in place , but surely some of this is PC going cuckoo ? Knowing how or where a disease originates may also be helpful in communication with the pu...
Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - May 11, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: sken Source Type: forums
Other/Not applicable Parkinsons Disease AS Biology Coursework guidance (please help!)
Forum: Biology, biochemistry and other life sciences
Posted By: tharini_n
Post Time: 01-02-2015 at 21:14 (Source: The Student Room)
Source: The Student Room - February 1, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: forums
