Type 3 diabetes
Obesity is on the rise in the United States and with this comes a number of health issues. One of those issues is Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Obesity can lead t...
Month: October 2013
Changing stigmas for medical benefits
The endocannabinoid system is one of the few pathways in the nervous system which send messages backwards. This uncommon occurrence always for the endogenous c...
How is Type 2 Diabetes Affecting Your Ability to Learn and Form New Memories?
This week, our class discussed the detrimental effects of insulin resistance as seen in Type 2 diabetes mellitus. It has been established that Type 2 diabetes c...
Akt/GSK3 Cascade: how important is it?
While reading the article “Beyond cAMP: the regulation of Akt and GSK3 by dopamine receptor” I thought to myself what on earth does all this technic...
A Whole New Type of Diabetes
This week we discussed a topic that was completely new to me, Type III diabetes. According to “Possible implications of insulin resistance and glucose metabolis...
Akt/GSK3 Protein signaling: The Other White Meat
If I’ve learned anything while at Concordia, it’s that there’s always something else I can learn. This week in neurochemistry only helped to make this more evid...
I thought that was illegal….
When many people hear the acronym THC, they think of the illegal (in most places) drug marijuana. But the article Endogenous cannabinoids revisited: A biochemis...
A New Look at Medical Marijuana
Last week, we tackled the topic of the endocannabinoid (EC) system and the implications of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Often only the recreational uses ar...
What's Not to Love?
The article this week revolved around a topic that has been debated in many political and medicinal, as well as ethical, discussions. After reading and discussi...