You’re Addicted to a Drug, and You Might Not Even Know It
It makes you happy. You get cranky when you don’t have enough of it. Once you’ve gotten used to a certain amount, you need more to sustain you. It’s sugar. http...
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Quick Overview of ALS
Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) just might be one of the most terrifying conditions out there. For starters, at this point in research, 95% ...
Anxiety and College Students: Finding a Balance
Everyone experiences stress at different times in their lives, whether it has to do with school, work, family, or just life in general. Stress isn’t always a ba...
Locking Away Mental Illness
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law a landmark piece of legislation titled the Community Mental Health Act (CMHA). Its purpose was to redirect fu...
Three Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Schizophrenia
Up until recently, my knowledge of the psychiatric disease, schizophrenia, was pretty limited, and I think many others can relate. All I really knew was ...
Schizophrenics Are Violent
At least, that’s what the media will have you think. Many movies portray mental illness. I understand why—mental illness is different, and we don’t completely u...
Culminating a Cultivating Capstone Course
When I registered for my capstone course at Concordia College, I had no idea how Neurochemistry would challenge me, grow me, and excite me. I came to Concordia ...
My Capstone Experience
The ultimate, long-term objective at Concordia College is to BREW (Become Responsibly Engaged in the World). Students, like myself, take a course called the cap...
Caps Off to My Concordia Capstone
Participating in the neurochemistry capstone course has been an excellent culmination of the life skills I’ve learned as a student at Concordia. While I still h...
Therapies for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) has a wide range of symptoms, but there are three core symptoms that include social interaction, communication, and repetitive be...