What We Don’t Know About ALS
It all starts out with muscle weakness in either the hands or the feet, and slowly progresses to slurred speech, stumbling, bad posture. These are just some of ...
Category: Disease
ALS: Bringing Awareness to This Neurodegenerative Disease
Background Information on ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a debilitating disease that can often be difficult to diagn...
ALS – Finding Hope
This past week the Fargo-Moorhead community lost an angel to a disease that continually seems to rip away our hope and block any light at the end of the tunnel....
How Does ALS Progress?
To understand ALS, one needs to understand how the motor neurons in the brain are divided. The brain has different types of neurons, sensory (for example, detec...
Steady Support in the Face of Deterioration: Supporting Those With ALS
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Many neurodegenerative diseases are a devastating diagnosis for patients and ALS is no exception. ALS is a motor neuron dise...
Marijuana Medication: How Much Should Be Enough?
Marijuana has been known as the miracle medication that can treat several diseases, such as anxiety, seizure and even cancer. Marijuana is extracted from...
My Kind of High: Medical Marijuana and the Endocannabinoid System
Marijuana Marijuana: illegal, euphoria, high, decreased motivation and IQ, munchies, pain and anxiety relief, and potential future medication. These are only so...
Spark the “Weed” Conversation
We have all heard about marijuana somewhere in our social realm. Whether it is recreational or medicinal use, we all know someone who uses marijuana and either ...
Help Without the High: The Journey to the Legalization of Medical Marijuana
Recently there has been more and more talk about the legalization of medical marijuana. There is a push for it because it can be used to treat pain, and it is l...
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...