Nitric Oxide: A Powerful Player in the Brain
Nitric oxide, like many things in the body, is something that is beneficial to the body in small concentrations but also potentially harmful in larger concentra...
Month: December 2015
Autism and the Brain
First I just want to make it abundantly clear, vaccines do not cause autism. The main paper that people cite in order to show that autism and vaccines are relat...
In a World with Autistic Children…
Having had a brother with Downs Syndrome, the conversations I have had with my parents over the years on their initial reactions after his birth have been very ...
The Missing Puzzle Piece: Environmental Factors in Autism Spectrum Disorder
As a symbol representing the face of autism in our society, the puzzle piece has come to represent the diversity and complexity of autism as a spectrum of disor...
Obesity: The Mother's Fault?
It has been proposed that obesity is a disease of the brain. The article we read for class revealed that there are substantial effects on the brain that qualifi...