Addiction: Risk Factors for Relapse
Relapse prevention skills are important for living a happy life in recovery. In order to learn these prevention skills, one must know what the risk factors for ...
Category: Disease
Are Oreos More Addictive Than Cocaine? Unwrapping Food Addiction
A recent study found that rats equally prefer Oreos and cocaine over control substances (rice cakes and saline). Not only that—the same brain regions are activa...
Addiction: Why Not Just Stop?
Are You Addicted? Everyone, take a moment to pull out your cellphone, go into your settings, and look at your daily average screen time. I’ll give you a moment ...
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...
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...