Anyone can be an Addict: Understanding the Science behind Addiction
Addiction, a topic that is not always heavily discussed, yet more likely than not most people reading this know someone who deals with addiction. Many people be...
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Rewards Gone Rogue: Drugs and your Brain
Addiction occurs when a person is physically and mentally dependent on a specific substance. Most the time, the substance is a drug. Drug addiction has always b...
Why It’s so Difficult to Stop Addiction
Society has developed this harshly negative perspective of people we would refer to as “addicts.” They are frequently viewed as people that chose their addictio...
Drug Addiction: Can it really happen to anyone?
Imagine yourself surrounded by a group of people wanting to try drugs in order to “fit in” and “be cool.” They ask if you want to try some and you feel pressure...
The Misconceptions of Schizophrenia
People with Schizophrenia, just like many mental disorders, are portrayed by the general public as being deranged and having erratic behaviors. There is no effo...
Grounding Schizophrenia in Reality
The media characterizes schizophrenia by portraying individuals as violent, unpredictable, and crazy, driven to madness by the voices in their own heads, a crea...
Can Stress Affect Your Genome?
In the world we live in today, stress is all around us. In the past, the stress response from our brains was important in aiding to our survival from danger, bu...
Here’s what you may (not) know about Alzheimer’s disease: Is your diet leading to cognitive impairment?
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by memory loss and other cognitive impairments such as thinking and behavior. AD is a type...
Picking Apart the Spectrum
The number of Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD cases is on the rise. Today the percentage of children with ASD is roughly 2.4% whereas in 2010 the percent was 1....
Autism: Can There Be Too Many Neurons?
Usually, people associate more neurons or more brain activity with positive outcomes such as being smarter. This is a theme commonly portrayed in Hollywood esp...