Addiction’s Conviction
Addiction has ravaged the population for countless years. Currently, there are nearly 21 million Americans with at least one addiction, yet only 10% receive tre...
Category: Disease
How Tracking Your Menstrual Cycle Can Help Combat Drug Addiction
How is Drug Addiction Defined? Drug addiction can be defined as the inability for an individual to control or regulate compulsive seeking out and use of drugs. ...
Unwrapping Schizophrenia: It’s More Than Hallucinations
Have you ever met someone who has schizophrenia? Odds are, probably not, but if you were to ask someone what schizophrenia is, they generally would respond with...
Unlinking Moral Failure and Mental Illness
With one in every five Americans experiencing a mental illness at some point in their lives, how is it that the stigma surrounding mental illness remains so per...
Infections During Pregnancy and Schizophrenia: Causation or Correlation?
Neurological diseases and disorders are health deficits that many people fear at some point in their lives. Some neurological diseases and disorders do not begi...
Schizophrenia and Estrogen: An Unexpected Relationship
What is schizophrenia and how does it manifest? Schizophrenia is a form of chronic mental illness that plagues around 20 million people worldwide, often intrudi...
Schizophrenia and Autism: More Alike Than You’d Think
Distinct differences, striking similarities Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are both well-known developmental disorders involving the brain. At...
The Voices in My Head: Friends or Foes?
In America, when we think of hearing voices, most people’s immediate reaction is to think well, that’s crazy! And while auditory hallucinations are certainly a ...
Why do only some people develop lasting symptoms of PTSD?
A snowy evening… During my sophomore year of high school, I narrowly missed a head-on collision with a semi. I was driving after school to a cello lesson ...
Fighting the Memory War: A Battle Between Remembering and Forgetting Trauma
“Do you remember what happened?” is generally one of the first questions a person is asked after going through a traumatic event. This question can cause a grea...