The Challenges of Studying Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is easily one of the most recognizable psychiatric disorders. However, the disease is more complicated than people believe. First, there are two c...
Month: October 2019
Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Why being Human is Complicated
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complicated psychological disorder. While typically associated with army veterans, the disorder is actually common am...
Schizophrenia: Breaking Down the Stigma
Schizophrenia is a neurodegenerative disease which has often been portrayed through various forms of media. However, this depiction is often a misrepresentation...
The Role of Memory in Anxiety and PTSD
If any of you were akin to me in your middle childhood, you were probably instructed to NOT do something regularly. The probability that I would listen to such ...
Don’t Sugar Coat It: The Correlation between Type Two Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease.
Recent decades have seen the drastic rise in many metabolic disorders such as type two diabetes (T2D). In 2015, over 415 million people in the world were affec...
What is Groucho and what does it have to do with Schizophrenia???
What is schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder of the brain of which no cure is known. There are some treatments that are enhancing patient quality ...
Could Insulin be connecting Alzheimer’s and Type 2 Diabetes?
What should insulin be doing? You’ve probably heard of insulin before but role does it actual play in our bodies? When functioning normally, insulin help...
The Threat of Alzheimer’s
Do you know, or have you ever known, someone with Alzheimer’s in your life? At the moment, your answer to this question may or may not be yes, but as time passe...
The Brain and PTSD
Did you know that about 50% of all US adults will experience a traumatic event at some point in their lives? I did not. And while this number is higher than I w...
10 Facts – What Do You Know About Schizophrenia?
First of all, let’s establish that schizophrenia is a mental illness. You probably knew this already, but if I had asked you to name the first three mental illn...