The Ugly Truth of Addiction
What is Addiction? Addiction is a psychology and physical inability to stop consuming a drug, activity or substance, despite it causing physical and psycholog...
Month: November 2019
Memories and Stress
What is PTSD? PTSD is post-traumatic stress disorder. It is characterized by a number of symptoms that follow a traumatic event in someone’s life. PTSD symptoms...
Relationship between Alzheimer’s and Type 2 Diabetes
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Insulin-signaling-linking-Type-II-diabetes-and-Alzheimers-disease-Alterations-in_fig4_323247347 Research has consiste...
WHACK: Concussions and Neurometabolism
Concussions are a growing concern in athletics as we learn more about the consequences of multiple concussions and long-term dangers. Not only are large traumat...
BrainSTORMing to understand Autism Spectrum Disorder… and Rain Man
Rain Man, a breakthrough Hollywood film from the late eighties, brought us a representation of a man with autism. The film enabled us to better understand how o...
Just Because We Can, Should We?
Austism spectrum disorder (ASD) includes a large range of conditions that is characterized by difficulties with social skills, communication, and repetitive beh...
Autism: a Disorder to Cure or a Personality Change to Accept
Autism Spectrum Disorder is characterized by presence of particular symptoms explained by certain DSM-5 criteria. To summarize, the disorder is characterized b...
ARC: A Keystone Player in the Over-ARCing Storyline of the Development of ASD
Artstract by Allegra Bentrim Autism spectrum disorders are genetic disorders and are present in about one percent of children. Differences in social behaviour a...
Autism: A Spectrum of Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have become a large topic of discussion in the public eye for many years. While previously it had been treated and diagnosed as ...
Autism: Losing the Trees in the Forest
Autism is a very broad topic, mostly because the disorder manifests itself differently in every single person who has it. There are people with autism sp...