How Science Can Lead to Safer, Less Addictive Narcotics
When initially discovered, purified opioids were an exciting and powerful new tool for managing pain. Yet, despite their undeniable effects at alleviating debil...
Author: Joseph Kennedy
Addiction: A Disease or a Choice?
Like many of the issues we have been looking at recently that involve the brain, this is going to be a complicate issue but I will try to tackle it the best tha...
Schizophrenia – How Can You Identify Someone With the Syndrome?
When you think of someone with mental illness, what are some of the first images that cross your mind? Do you think of someone who is “crazy”, with ...
Individualized and Team-Driven Care Can Improve Symptoms of Schizophrenia
A 2015 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry provided exciting evidence of a novel treatment’s effectiveness in treating schizophrenia. The new treatment ...
Could Air Pollution Be Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease?
Hypothesizing about the environmental triggers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) can quickly lead down a proverbial rabbit hole. Such a discussion occurred l...
Alzheimer’s Disease and You: Can It Be Prevented?
Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills. In most people with Alzheimer’s, ...
Neurochemistry: reflections on a semester
While this year has been anything what I expected. I cannot say anything other than neurochemistry was an incredibly useful course to take that furthered my und...
Bulimia Nervosa: the hidden eating disorder
Eating disorders are much more prevalent in our society than many people believe. While exact numbers on eating disorders are difficult to get (due to self-repo...
Autism and the Brain
First I just want to make it abundantly clear, vaccines do not cause autism. The main paper that people cite in order to show that autism and vaccines are relat...
Obesity and the Brain
Countless neurological pathways help dictate when we need to eat; but ultimately three pathways are the major players. The one that I specifically looked at was...