Bigger isn’t better: Inflammation Affects on the Brain
Bigger Isn’t Better: Inflammation Affects on The Brain Swelling of the brain might seem like a minor concern when it comes to overall brain health, but in...
Category: Disease
Your Brain on Fat: Why Hypothalamic Inflammation Matters
Most of us know that a high-fat, high-sugar diet can lead to weight gain. Many people are aware of how obesity is linked to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and ...
Protecting Your Brain to Protect Your Body: A New Angle on Preventing Obesity
Abstract created by Gabe Sparks Obesity is often labeled as a simple imbalance between the calories we consume and the calories we burn, but this disease runs m...
Brain-Body Connection in Obesity
Recently, hypothalamic inflammation has been linked to obesity. The evidence suggests a high fat diet leads to brain inflammation, causing the uncoupling of foo...
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...
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...