Month: December 2013

Honestly, I mainly took neurochemistry because I had to for my minor. I’ve never been all that into chemistry, and my expectations were about at the level of “t...

With just 3 protons, you could perhaps be excused for thinking there isn’t much to lithium. But it turns out it’s good for a lot more than just batteries. Lithi...

Wow, it is hard to believe that it is already the end of fall semester senior year. Where did the time go? Well that means it is time to reflect on my “capstone...

When I was 15 my sister had an accident while sledding and suffered a concussion. Visiting her in the hospital was a rather surreal experience, with her failing...

Continuing a trend of unlikely players, the paper “Targeting dysregulation of brain iron homeostasis in Parkinsons’ disease by iron chelators” tells us the stor...

Like I expect most people would, I used to think that insulin was just something for diabetes. As a biology major I suppose I knew that it regulates how your bo...

Dopamine is one of the few neurotransmitters that most people have probably heard of. It’s the ‘reward chemical’, the one that makes us feel good when we reach ...

In all honesty, before this class started I was secretly a little terrified for it. Now, that doesn’t mean I wasn’t excited about it too–I knew basically ...

When I first signed up for Neurochemistry I really had no idea what the class was going to be like. At first I assumed it was going to be somewhat similar to th...