Here is a picture of my serotonin tattoo. I don’t know that it needs much more explanation than it’s my favorite neurotransmitter.–Hayley
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February 18th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
serotonin yes
hayley yes please
phwoar
if only my biology teacher was that hot, id be doing neurosciences now
not marine biology
March 9th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Yea, im not gonna lie thats probably the most awsome tat ive ever seen on a girl, are you on facebook haha.. im taking Neurobiology right now and it is the most interesting class i’ve ever been in. Neurotransmission in the brain along with memory congnition and reasoning are awsome topics, but i must say i am more of a dopaminergic fan
April 28th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Ok. You’ve convinced me. I should’ve gone into the sciences as well. Poor me. I actually learned a trade. Don’t see to many it-babes like that.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Club Confabula – a Dutch weblog – likes your tattoo!
August 20th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
[...] a lil serotonin imbalance necessitating a tattoo of the neurotransmitter for some stability? I’ll keep checking with Carl Zimmer’s new Science Tattoo home on Discover for [...]
January 8th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
That is really hott…….
January 31st, 2009 at 7:07 pm
that’s the coolest tattoo ever!
February 18th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
WOW i like it very much
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March 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 am
thats soo dope. i envy you for gettin that haha
March 10th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Glad you guys like it so much.
March 16th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
are you trying to say that your body brings as much pleasure as serotonin? I’ll be the judge of that.
April 7th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Oops the schizogen MA…
Awsome; vertically presented as that the mol is shaped as an amino-handed robot
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 am
Uhm whoops you’d think that whoever designed this tattoo would have had the NH2 be H2N and the OH be HO. The general rule is that if most of the bonds emanate to the right, the text pendant to the connecting atom goes to the left, and vice versa.
August 6th, 2009 at 9:23 am
You’d expect that someone who knows what a neurotransmitter does is capable of writing plain english.
I also wonder how she came to realize that serotonin is her specific favorite, but I guess that would challenge the fact that she just wants to look interesting a bit too much.
August 1st, 2010 at 8:13 pm
don’t you think its a bit large? I mean you have defaced you body with a chemical symbol why on earth would you do that? it seems so pointless. Its like an attempt at saying how much more intelligent you are than others; yet those intelligent enough to understand it would simply think your an idiot its quite amusing actually.
May 1st, 2011 at 9:03 pm
SO GREAT! Respect