The Missing Piece: Linking Alzheimer’s Disease and Type II Diabetes
Linking Alzheimer’s Disease and Type II Diabetes The Link When picturing an individual suffering from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and one suffering from Type...
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The Genes of Alzheimer’s Disease
The Concordia College Neuroscience Program aims to consider and connect as many interdisciplinary perspectives as possible. As students, we are taught to think ...
An Unlikely Relationship: The Link Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Type 2 Diabetes
In a society that values convenience, it should not come as a shock that 1 in 4 Americans eats fast food every day. Aside from poor eating habits, it has been f...
Here’s what you may (not) know about Alzheimer’s disease: Is your diet leading to cognitive impairment?
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by memory loss and other cognitive impairments such as thinking and behavior. AD is a type...
What do diet and memory have in common?
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) involves degeneration of tissue in the brain while type 2 diabetes (T2D) involves an problem with insulin resistance. At first glance i...
What causes autism?
Introduction to autism: Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disease that results in impaired functioning in social communication and abnormal beh...
Autism: Trying to Put the Pieces Together
What is autism and why does it matter? Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by challenges in social communication and r...
Autism: A Different Brain
Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has steadily increased over the years. The CDC estimates that autism prevalence will increase to 1 in 59 children in ...
Autism On the Rise – Can it Be Prevented?
Autism is a relatively newly recognized disorder that is quickly affecting more and more children as time progresses, affecting 1 in 68 today compared to just 1...
ASD: What’s the Deal?
What is autism? This is a very difficult question for people to answer for a variety of reasons. The biggest reason is because a wide spectrum of symptoms is ex...