The difficulty of unlearning: Addiction as a memory
Artstract by A. Griffith – Created with OpenAi In the United States, 58.3% of the population used tobacco products, vaped nicotine, drank alcohol, or used...
Month: March 2026
When Learning Goes Wrong: The Neuroscience of Addiction
Feature Image: Artstract by Emma Doty using AI Overview: Psychostimulant use disorder (PUD) is a chronic, relapsing condition characterized by compulsive drug ...
Addiction as Memory: When Psychostimulants Cause Learning to Become a Problem
Image from Clay Behavior Health Center (https://ccbhc.org/understanding-addiction/) Psychostimulants Spark Learning Pathways Your brain learns from experience, ...
Antipsychotics: A Balance of Safety and Comfort
Schizophrenia is one of the hardest mental conditions to treat and it can often be difficult to get patients to comply with a medication regiment. This is due t...
The Silent Risk Factors of Schizophrenia
The Silent Risks of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that is thought to be a disorder of brain development and neural connectivity [2]. ...
The Tangled Web: Comorbidities, Wnt Signaling, and the Complexity of Schizophrenia
Comorbidities Schizophrenia almost never arrives alone. In clinical practice, psychiatric comorbidities are usually th...
The Making of the Mind: What Changes in Schizophrenia
The human brain is like a city under constant construction, with billions of cells building and connecting to form the networks that shape our thoughts, emotion...
Schizophrenia: The importance of continued research
Schizophrenia is hypothesized to be a brain development disorder. [1] In contrast to most developmental disorders, it most commonly does not surface until ages ...
Cells to Circuits: Understanding Schizophrenia from Early Development
Artstact created by K. Leppke with help of ChatGPT Neural Stem Cells and Development The development of your brain was an extremely complex process, which was c...
The Burden of Adapting to a Society That Wasn’t Built With You In Mind: Autism Spectrum Disorder
The burden of adaptation is often placed on the Autistic individual, not the environment. How Autistic People Experience the World People with Autism Spectrum D...