Tuesday 15 May 2012

Preexamrevisionstress disorder

A disease that a student would get infected twice per year. Yes, infectious disease. But only part time/full time students are at risk of having this disease.

I hate it so much when the researchers PURPOSELY/ACCIDENTALLY named the drugs or illness they develop/discover with such a hard-to-pronounce-and-awful-long name.So, I purposely named this set of symptoms with that not-so-long-and-hard-to-read name. At least, you can still read it out loud and clear.

Symptoms:
Backache, stiff neck and shoulder- due to "looking-on-your-super-thick-notes" with your bump stick on the not so comfortable chair for couples of hours.
Panda eyes-due to burning midnight oils for looking at those so unfamiliar words in your lecture notes.
Unintentional weight gain, craving for hard-to-get food in midnight-due to pre-exam stress.No scientific evidence to support this but yea I pretty sure they are related. The correlation coefficient, r is greater than 0.9 so quite significant linear relationship between them.
Nightmare-starts to dream on what you just revised when sleeping and you can't remember the important points for that particular topic which make you have this kind of OS in your dream:  "I shall check it out when I wake up tomorrow! "
Excessive day dreaming of unrealistic after-exam plan- this simply due to the lecture notes are too bored that you don't bother to spend another second looking at it.

Can' think of any other symptoms now.

But yea,till now, no drugs that cure this illness.
Monoclonal antibody-not useful, as no foreign antigen involved here.We have no target.
rDNA-I assume we are not lacking any protein/enzymes/hormone as we are perfectly healthy during exam-off period.Recombinant can't do its job here.
Antisense ODN-not working if we are not lacking any protein.
Gene therapy-need to find out the gene we are lacking/impaired beforehand.

May be genotyping our DNA may help to identify possible causes of this syndrome and thus can identify a novel drug target?

This sums up what I have been studying this few days. Rational drug design, disease management, pharmacology. I shall include some Drug metabolism and disposition information here when we come out with a lead molecule in some day.  =)

2 comments:

J said...

Jia you! :)

JH said...

Thanks Shu yi!