Why We Never Forget: How the Brain Builds Stressful Memories
Artstract Created by S. Mohamed Have you ever noticed how the most stressful or traumatic moments in life tend to stick with you forever? Maybe it was a car acc...
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Stress: The Memory That Sticks
Original artstract by M. Shercliffe. We’ve all experienced moments of intense stress that seem burned into our memories, whether it’s a near-miss car accident, ...
Psychostimulant Addiction: A Learning Disease
You may have heard that addiction is a disease, but this disease uniquely harms the body – it attacks learning. Psychostimulant Use Disorder (PUD) is a chronic...
Medicating Addiction
What is Addiction Addiction is a chronic dependence on a substance. The condition involves compulsive seeking and persistent use despite the negative contributi...
Addiction Rewires the Brain
Artstract created by Hadlie Dahlseid. Drug use leads to increased dopamine and glutamate, which causes alterations in the reward circuit of the brain, increasin...
Dopamine – Have Researchers Found the Missing Piece to the Autism Puzzle?
Imagine a world where you never know what the person next to you is thinking or how they’re feeling. Imagine attending social events or new experiences that are...
The Future of Autism Diagnosis: Integrating Subtyping into Diagnosis
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is recognized as a highly heritable neurodevelopmental condition. It impacts a significant percentage of children, with estimates...
The Silent Link Between Insulin and Alzheimer’s: What You Need to Know
Imagine this: You walk into a room, but suddenly, you forget why you’re there. You struggle to recall a familiar name or misplace your keys more often tha...
Alzheimer’s Disease and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Is “Type III Diabetes” a Women’s Health Crisis?
Alzheimer’s disease and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) are two seemingly unrelated conditions that disproportionately affect women. Alzheimer’s, a devastati...
P13K and Alzheimers disease: The Domino Effect
The Domino Effect: Alzheimer’s disease follows a pathogenesis that includes a cascade of inflammation, synaptic dysfunction, and hyper-phosphorylation of ...