Today’s lecture was on psychopharmacology.
I love psychopharmacology.
I hate lectures though. So while the lecturer was going on, I was busy talking to someone on facebook and then the lecturer starts going on about neurotransmitters.
I love neurotransmitters. They do lots of stuff. Control your mood, how motivated you are, etc. Most recreational drugs also work with neurotransmitters, like MDMA works on serotonin and speed words on dopamine. That’s a really basic description, but I don’t care and you can figure out the rest yourself.
So around a year ago I had discovered that you could get 5-HTP pretty easily off eBay. For less than 20$ a bottle, you could have a pill that makes you happy when you feel depressed. Oh BTW, 5-HTP is a precursor for serotonin.
Then today in class they were talking about dopamine.
This is why I love the internet – I fired up wikipedia, loaded up the page for dopamine and read all the information. Looked at the bottom and saw that supplements were available for sale (I remember back in the day, when I was really into all this kinda stuff, you couldn’t even get 5-HTP in shops. Now, with the internet, you could get anything). Went to eBay, searched L-dopa, found a decent price and now I have a sachet of pure l-dopa heading my way*.
All this during a lecture? Excellent.
-Matt
*I wouldn’t suggest anyone do this unless they knew what they were doing. L-dopa can cause a million bad side effects if you don’t dose it correctly and you could probably die from it. Or become psychotic. Don’t do things just ’cause I do them because I know I’m smarter and more capable than you are. Kthxdisclaimer.