What’s the Deal With Alzheimer’s?
Your brain is your most powerful organ, yet weighs only about three pounds. It has a texture similar to firm jelly. It uses 20% of the total oxygen in your body...
Category: Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease and You: Can It Be Prevented?
Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills. In most people with Alzheimer’s, ...
Alzheimer’s Research to Amount to a “God Complex”
The Issue More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), and 1 in 9 Americans over the age of 65 has the disease, according to the Alzh...
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Neurexin Proteins
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of developmental disabilities characterized by abnormal social interaction, communication, and stereotyped behaviors. ...
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism spectrum disorder is commonly known for its social impairment, and the symptoms include abnormal social interaction and communication, and stereotyped be...
Why Are We Only Treating Half of Autism?
In the United States today, approximately 1 in 68 children are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ASD is a disorder of the brain that can include, b...
Who Done It? When Vaccines Plead Not Guilty to Being the Source of Autism
Autism is on the rise in the United States. The prevalence has increased from 1 in 110 in 2006 to 1 in 68 in 2010. This increase has led to more awareness surr...
Autism Spectrum Disorder
In a study between the years of 2006-2008, it was determined that 1 in 6 American children had a developmental disability ranging from the mild to more severe. ...
Why do I Keep Getting Fatter?
Obesity is something on everyone’s minds these days. The days of being skinny sort of slipped away, slowly but inevitably. Fatty and sugary foods, expensi...
Obesity in the Brain
According to multiple studies that I have read, obesity is of great concern in all societies. In every state at least 20-35% of their individuals are considered...