Reinforcing Anxiety Through Memories
Having an anxiety-ridden experience can cement into our memories, so it lives on for years afterward. For some people, there may only be a couple memorie...
Month: April 2025
Exercise is Medicine: How Moving Your Body Calms Your Mind
Abstract created by G. Sparks Memories play a huge role in our everyday lives. We’re constantly forming them, whether we realize it or not, and they help ...
Addiction Rewires Your Brain: Can We Rewire It Back?
Artstract created S. Mohamed Addiction is not a choice. It’s a complex brain disease. And for millions of people struggling with psychostimulant use—cocai...
Learning How Anxiety is Disrupted Learning
Artstract created C. Geraci Do you know someone with an anxiety disorder or do you, yourself, have one? Have you ever wondered what is going awry in the brain t...
Childhood Trauma & Memory
Traumatic experiences in childhood have a more significant impact on the brain than acute trauma in adulthood. Let’s look into the field of developmental trauma...
EAATs Mechanism Regulating Glutamate Levels In the Brain
Beyond reviewing the current literature, the paper emphasizes how stress influences memory formation through molecular, epigenetic, and neurobiological mechanis...
Dopamine and Glutamate: The Dynamic Duo Behind Your Brain’s Biggest Hits
Imagine you’re at a concert. The air is buzzing, the bass is thumping, and the crowd is alive. The excitement of anticipation builds as the lights dim an...
Psychostimulant Addiction: A Learning Disease
You may have heard that addiction is a disease, but this disease uniquely harms the body – it attacks learning. Psychostimulant Use Disorder (PUD) is a chronic...
Addicted
The article we have covered in a previous week, “A role on the metabotropic glutamate receptors in neuroplasticity” by Roghayeh Mozafari, Saeidah Karimi-Haghigh...
Hijacked Happiness: How Addiction Rewires the Brains Reward System
HIJACKED HAPPINESS: HOW ADDICTION REWIRES THE BRAINS REWARD SYSTEM Addiction hijacks the brain’s reward circuits, reshaping the very wiring that governs ...