Prenatal, Perinatal, and Postnatal Music Therapy
Music Therapy and the Brain: There are countless ways in which the listening, singing, or performing music promote positive chemical alterations in the brain. ...
Month: December 2020
Neurochemistry: A class that sets the standard
Neurochemistry has been one of my favorite classes that I’ve taken in college, and one of those reasons is because of the learning environment that was fostered...
Pastime, Passion, or Potential Therapeutic Treatment?
While we often like to think of music as simply an art that we appreciate for its aesthetic value, most of us use music as a ‘tool’ to regulate our needs in one...
Listening the Pain Away
Music and the Brain If you think about it, we hardly go anywhere that does not have some type of music playing in the background; the grocery store, driving in ...
Neurochemistry: Liberal Learning at its Best
Coming into Concordia confident that I would pursue a Neuroscience major, the Neurochemistry course is one that has always been on my radar. To say I enjoyed th...
Why You Should Take Neurochemistry at Concordia
I’ll be honest; the Neurochemistry 475 course here at Concordia College seemed to be a challenging feat for me when I first saw it on my required course list. U...
Music To My Ears (And To My Brain!)
While there are inevitably reasons why people enjoy listening to music, many of these reasons can be attributed to changes in the brain, giving off a reward sig...
NEU 475: How A Senior Came To Love Her Major
Wait, you didn’t love your major? As a senior in college? Yes, it’s the truth; going into my senior year as a Biology and Neuroscience double major,...
Neurochemistry: a reflection
Joy, fulfillment, hope, gratitude, and passion. These are the emotions that come to mind as I reflect on my capstone neurochemistry class and on my Concordia Co...
Endocannabinoid Signaling and Multiple Sclerosis: Promising Treatment Avenues
Artstract #3: ECS signaling balances excitation and inhibition by decreasing neuroinflammation When you hear the term “endocannabinoids” what’s the first...