How Stress Can Lead to Obesity
We’ve all heard that stress can lead to weight gain, but how does it really do that? Chronic stress causes many harmful cycles that can lead to this excess weig...
Month: December 2015
The Role of Nitric Oxide in Alzheimer's Disease
To be honest, I did not know much about Nitric Oxide (NO) before reading the scientific paper on the topic for our neurochemistry class. All I could have told ...
A Promising Outlook to a Devastating Disease: Lewy Body Dementia
What is Lewy Body Dementia? Lewy body dementia is characterized by abnormal protein deposits that aggregate in the brain. When Lewy body proteins aggregate, th...
Capstone Experience: Bringing it All Together
(click on image for motion) ZOOOOOOM! ‘Woah! Did you see that?!’ ‘I’m not really sure!’ ‘Wait, what the hell are you talking about…?’ At this point in time, tha...
Neurochemistry: what I know for certain
I am going to come clean. I have no idea what is going on in the human brain. I know I have been shouting out into the black hole that is the internet about it ...
Parenting; where is the goldilocks zone?
Bulimic behavior is very interesting. It is one of those things that clearly have no upside. Everyone you ask would probably agree that nothing good could come ...
Bulimia Nervosa: Neurological Implication
In modern times, the continued growth of technology-based communication has resulted in an ever-present force of social habituation. The constant need for commu...
Parenting: Why even try?
In today’s society, we are finding out new information each and every day about the dangers of our world that can hurt our kids. Bacon is being classified as ca...
Capstone Experience
This neurochemistry capstone class has done a wonderful job of summing up my academic experience at Concordia. The goal of Concordia’s liberal arts educa...