Cancer and Endocannabinoids: More Than Just Palliative Care?
Medical marijuana has been a hot debate topic for years now, but one of the undeniable and notable effects that has been seen is that medical marijuana has a go...
Month: December 2021
Neurochemistry: Integrating and Applying Liberal Arts Education Goals
Neurochemistry has allowed me to integrate and apply the skills and competencies that a liberal arts education at Concordia College strives all students to meet...
Final Blog Post
This class pushed me in ways I did not anticipate. I had to adjust my learning style to be more independent. I expected this class to be like every other scienc...
Sleep Strengthens Smarts: memory consolidation
Sleep Sleep is a natural process every human requires for survival. This is a state of reversible unconsciousness and decreased motor activity. On average adult...
Final Blog post: a personal reflection
My experience with this class: Neurochemistry was by far the most interactive and learning-focused class that I have taken so far in my college life. It has hel...
Sleep: Is it Important for Memory?
Background “Sleep is important.” Most individuals have heard the aforementioned phrase before, but many individuals do not understand just how important sleep i...
Lucid Dreaming: What it is and how to do it
Figure 1: A general picture of lucid dreaming. Sleep and memory All through grade school and college, I always heard people say that staying up late cramming be...
Final Blog Post
Being wrong is… actually, perfectly okay Neurochemistry this semester has given me the not-so-fun, but very much needed opportunity to practice being okay with...
What Happens When We Don’t Sleep?
What’s something that we all have in common, well we sleep. I’ll admit it, some of us get more than others, but at the end of the day our favorite a...
Too Stressed to Sleep: How Benadryl addiction creeps up on college students
The drug Benadryl (diphenhydramine) is an OTC antihistamine used to treat symptoms allergies. The drug itself is not supposed to be used for easy sleep, but it ...