Are Stress and Anxiety Hijacking Your Body?
Stress and Anxiety. Two words you hear often now a days. Especially if you are like me a college student. These two factors can negatively impact our lives and ...
Month: May 2017
Understanding Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injury
If you were to ask a high school freshman what a concussion is, do you think they would be able to tell you? All I would’ve been able to tell you when I was a h...
Is Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Type III Diabetes?
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a disease associated with the destruction of brain cells resulting in the decline of cognitive functioning, memory, and social skill...
Maternal Autoimmunity and Its Implications in Autism
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is known to impair a child’s communication, social behavior, and contribute to the characte...
Treatments for the Cause or the Symptom?
Parkinson’s disease….. A very tough disease to deal with. It seems the more you know about this disease the less you do actually know. Upon learning about PD I ...
Removing Addiction From the Shadows
The American Society of Addiction Medicine describes addiction as a chronic disease of brain reward and motivation systems. Affected individuals do not have the...
Type III Diabetes: Alzheimer’s Disease
Many may wonder the rationale behind this title, and indeed it seems a strange connection to make. But the truth of Alzheimer’s disease lies in insulin receptor...
Drug Addiction: The Scope of the Problem and It’s Effects on the Brain
In the United States there has been much discussion about drug use over the past several decades. Of course this all started with the War on Drugs which was fi...
Understanding the Causes for Autism
Autism spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a mental health disorder that is characterized with the difficulty with social skills, repetitive behaviors, and most forms of...
Parkinson’s Disease and How You Can Make a Difference
What is Parkinson’s Roughly one million people in the US alone are living with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). It is a neurodegenerative disorder that slo...