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Sex, Drugs, and Serotonin

Serotonin, a monoamine neurotransmitter, is closely associated with modern psychiatry, and is a common target in psychopharmacology. Generally, this neurotransmitter effects mood,…

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How to Survive Nurse Practitioner School

At first, becoming a nurse practitioner is this noble idea motivated by compassion, benevolence, autonomy, ambition, and a lot of other feel-good…

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Utopian Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Curriculum

This post outlines what I think would be the most ideal curriculum for a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program, and…

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Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project Proposal

A few months ago, I wrote a blog post titled “Choosing a Doctorate Degree: A How-to Guide for Uncertain Nurses.”  Since then,…

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Brainstorming Nursing Research Ideas

This blog post consists of my ramblings about nursing research. Enjoy!  My dream job is working as a professor at a university…

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Choosing a Nursing Doctorate

I remember when I started my master’s program at Vanderbilt. Just the idea of making it through the advanced classes and passing my…

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Computational Psychiatry

This post summarizes “Computational Psychiatry” written by Montague, Dolan, Friston, and Dayan published in Trends in Cognitive Science in January 2012. The article PDF…