What Can't Lithium do?
There are many different pharmaceuticals that have different effects within the body. These pharmaceuticals are many different elements. The simple pharmaceut...
Month: November 2013
Type 3 Diabetes: Alzheimer's Disease
There are many health concerns that are related to diabetes. One of the new outcomes of diabetes is that there is a possibility of a having a higher chance of ...
Marijuana the Miracle Drug
One thing that is seemed to be looked down upon in society is the use of medical marijuana. But how can something that seems to have so many positive side effe...
Akt/GSK, How Important is it?
There are many different issues that are covered on this topic that are important. The pathway that is the main concern for this article is the AKT/GSK pathway...
What's the real problem?
There are many factors that seem to play into the development of autism including genetics, the mother’s diet, the child’s diet, as well as the physical health ...
Oops, which kind of Iron?
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system, affecting movement, thinking, and behavior. Mostly affecting those ove...
Hope for Autism
This week, our neurochemistry class moved away from typical discussion of neurodegenerative diseases to focus on autism, a neurodevelopmental disease. The preva...
Insulin, Diabetes and a Whole Lot of Alzheimer's
According to the American Diabetes Association, in the United States, about 8.3% of the total population has some form of diabetes. That means about 25.8 millio...
Marijuana???
Should smoking marijuana be legal? Should using marijuana for medicinal purposes be legal? These are some hard-hitting questions that, in today’s society...
Why not Take a Dose of Lithium Everyday?
Lithium. A tiny soft silver-white metal that is the lightest of the alkali metals. For years this small metal has been used to treat bipolar disorder as well as...