Cancer and Schizophrenia: The Thin Line
The majority of people, including myself would never believe there existed a link between cancer and schizophrenia. With respect to cancer, we have uncontro...
Category: Disease
Your Brain Is Giving Itself the Munchies
You may have heard from a friend of a friend that THC, the main ingredient in cannabis, causes the munchies. That’s because it’s a turbocharged version of a br...
Should We Find a Pill to Cure Obesity?
Nowadays, pharmaceutical companies often try to develop specialized drugs for all kinds of diseases and addictions. In most cases I would say that this is a goo...
Can Obesity Cause Cognitive Disfunction?
The paper that I read for this week argued that obesity, along with genetic and socioeconomic factors, could be a result of an addictive lifestyle based on the ...
Why It’s Important to Treat Your Body With Love
Most of us have likely experienced at least some feelings of insecurity about our bodies at some point in our lives – that self-conscious voice that tells us ou...
Investing in Autism: Funding for Services or Research?
Studying both psychology and neuroscience in my undergraduate years I believe I have received an education that has highlighted the importance of all kinds of t...
Defining Obesity as a Disease: The Pros and Cons
As of 2013, obesity has been officially recognized as a disease by some of the nation’s leading medical groups, such as the American Medical Association (AMA), ...
Therapies for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) has a wide range of symptoms, but there are three core symptoms that include social interaction, communication, and repetitive be...
Medications, Pregnancy, and the Risk for Autism
Have you ever been behind a parent with their child in the checkout line at the grocery store? Maybe the child is acting up and the parent does not seem to be d...
Future Strategy to Treat Obesity and Prevent Damage in the Brain
In recent years, research has been showing the many negative effects that fat and obesity can have in the brain on top of the known effects that fat can have on...