This Is Your Brain on Exercise: Impact of Physical Activity on Stress
The Body: What can’t it do? It is no mystery that exercise is good for you. Why else would physical education be required in grade school? The extent of the imp...
Month: October 2018
Stress Induced Memories and How to Prevent Them
Everybody experiences stress, it is quite normal. There is a type good stress deemed eustress; which is the butterflies in your stomach before a big game that h...
Are Anxiety Disorders Your Gut’s Fault?
Anxiety can be very difficult to diagnose, as everyone has felt anxious at some point in their life. However, in an anxiety disorder, the fear and worry does no...
Stress can alter my genes? You better believe it.
It’s finals week. You have a to-do list over a mile long and are running on little to no sleep. You have consumed more coffee in the past two days than yo...
Impact of anxiety on the brain
A stressful world Every day the average person goes through a plethora of stressful events. We go to work, school, or take part in other tasks that demand a lot...
Exercise is the New Medicine for Your Brain
The importance of regular exercise for our physical health is drilled into us starting in elementary school gym class. However, there are also mental health ben...
The Memories We Make
Memories make up who we are as individuals. When memories are interrupted, degraded, or inhibited, we see cases of dementia such as Alzheimer’s Disease–wh...
Is your sweet tooth causing Alzheimer’s Disease?
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is one of the most saddening diseases. AD not only affects the patient, it could wreak emotional havoc on the family and friends of the...
“Grandma, I’m not ______” What’s Happening to Our Memories?
Imagine in you and your two closest friends when your 80. Odds are one of you will have Alzheimer’s. Yes Alzheimer’s, that scary disease where your ...
Uncovering the Foundations of an Unlikely Couple: The Link Between Alzheimer’s and Type 2 Diabetes
The Relationship: When considering an individual suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), one doesn’t often associate Type II Diabetes (T2D), or vice ver...