RuralEdMed – This is a medical education podcast for all types of healthcare workers, written from the perspective of an acute c
Description: This is a medical education podcast for all types of healthcare workers, written from the perspective of an acute care nurse practitioner hospitalist
This is a medical education podcast for all types of healthcare workers, written from the perspective of an acute care nurse practitioner hospitalist
Neuroplasticity, or the ability of the brain to change, is a huge term that encompasses all the things that make humans who they are. It is why some deaf people are more sensitive to vibrations and body language. The stroke patient who suffers aphasia sometimes learns to speak again. It is how people learn after repeated exposure to something, and how muscles follow complex patterns, seemingly effortlessly, such as riding a bicycle. Neuroplasticity is how humans can overcome ingrained patterns of behavior a
In the beginning, there was a signal. The signal was like any other, with characteristic features and a drive to move forward. It did not have parents, per se, but it came from somewhere . Before its existence, the environment to which it was born was negative, -60mV to be exact (Higgins & George, 2019). One might say in this instance, and Stahl (2020) did say it, that the surrounding milieu was just bursting with readiness for the signal. Voltage-gated ion channels sensitive to sodium lined the length
RuralEdMed – This is a medical education podcast for all types of healthcare workers, written from the perspective of an acute c