Road Block on Mental Health
Stigmatization and Schizophrenia Schizophrenia, as well as other psychotic and mental illnesses, are often the targets of stigmatization. It is unfortunately ve...
Category: Disease
Untangling The Brain: What’s New With Neurofibrillary Tangles
What’s the big idea with tangles? As some of you already know or have heard me talk about, neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are insoluble collections of mic...
How Neurochemistry helped me ____.
Instill a love for learning Neurochemistry has been a unique course in that the majority of the necessary work is done outside of the classroom setting and inde...
Prenatal, Perinatal, and Postnatal Music Therapy
Music Therapy and the Brain: There are countless ways in which the listening, singing, or performing music promote positive chemical alterations in the brain. ...
Endocannabinoid Signaling and Multiple Sclerosis: Promising Treatment Avenues
Artstract #3: ECS signaling balances excitation and inhibition by decreasing neuroinflammation When you hear the term “endocannabinoids” what’s the first...
Endocannabinoids and Alzheimer’s Disease
If you’ve done any research on the neurochemistry of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), you’ve probably run into a few of the same molecular players like β-amyloid plaqu...
The Universal Therapeutic Target’s New Competition: Huntington’s Disease
Let us take a quick look at what the endocannabinoid system actually is. There are two major endocannabinoids in the body, specifically the brain: Anandamide (A...
Is Fat Bad? Exploring the Ketogenic Diet and Obesity
One thing’s for certain in the world of nutrition and food lifestyle, it’s complicated. There are myriad, wildly different diets, many claiming fantastic result...
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and Obesity: A “Chicken or the Egg” Paradox
What is PCOS? Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a condition in which the ovaries produces excessive amounts of androgens, the male sex hormone. Excess of th...
To go or not to go: how excitatory/inhibitory imbalances can shape ASD
Hello everyone! Today I’d like to talk a little bit about some factors that influence the development of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), specifically how mater...