What You Need to Know About Concussions
What do concussions do to your brain? One big reason concussions are so dangerous is that they cause an influx of ions going into your neurons. What does that m...
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Concussions: The 12th Man Perspective
A flag thrown, a player down on the field, a stretcher carrying them off the field, a game that moves on while a player is tested for concussions. The NFL is pr...
Cutting Football Some Slack
Featured Image: Author Football and New Equipment As many people know, football has been under a lot of scrutiny in recent years due to its high prevalence of c...
How Many Is Too Much: Concussion and What You Need to Do
Injuries can happen at any given time in a person’s life. Whether you are riding a bike, walking a dog, playing a sport or even going downstairs in your basemen...
The Science and Reality Behind Concussions
Today, we hear about different famous athletes getting concussions all of the time. Or even friends who have taken a rough fall. To receive a concussion in toda...
I Have Concussion. I Need to Recover.
Nowadays, concussion occurs so often in many sports, such as football, cycling, baseball, basketball, and water sports, etc. It would be great if its negative i...
Another Year, Another Misplaced Memory: Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Where are my keys? “Oh no, I misplaced my keys yet AGAIN this week. My memory must be going. But wait. Does this mean..Could I possibly have..It couldn’t be..Al...
Overeating as a Cause for Alzheimer’s Disease
We all know that eating too much can cause obesity, stroke, heart failure, cancer and a load of other problems for our body, but does overeating have adverse co...
Where Did My Car Keys Go? Alzheimers in a Nutshell
Everybody has a family member with alzheimers or knows somebody that does. It seems like that rates of this neurodegenerative disorder are going up, but is this...
How Did We Get to Holland? a Journey to Autism
Sesame Street writer Emily Perl Kingsley is often asked to describe what it is like to raise child with disability. She describes it as planning a trip to Ital...