A Vicious Cycle of Unattainable Ideals
How do you empathize with an individual who seems to purposefully be doing harm to their body, as appears to be the case in eating disorders? Well first of all,...
Category: Disease
The Role of Synaptic Pruning in Autism
What is Autism? Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, and restricted and re...
How Stress Can Lead to Obesity
We’ve all heard that stress can lead to weight gain, but how does it really do that? Chronic stress causes many harmful cycles that can lead to this excess weig...
The Role of Nitric Oxide in Alzheimer's Disease
To be honest, I did not know much about Nitric Oxide (NO) before reading the scientific paper on the topic for our neurochemistry class. All I could have told ...
A Promising Outlook to a Devastating Disease: Lewy Body Dementia
What is Lewy Body Dementia? Lewy body dementia is characterized by abnormal protein deposits that aggregate in the brain. When Lewy body proteins aggregate, th...
Bulimia Nervosa: The Eating Disorder That Hides
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder that often can’t be seen in an everyday person. Often people with this eating disorder look normal and decently heal...
An Unemotional Approach to Parkinson's
If you look at Parkinson’s disease from an unemotional perspective, it is one of the many reasons the world is becoming more and more overpopulated. Simp...
Obesity: How it Happens
Obesity is often a very difficult topic. So many Americans are getting diagnosed with obesity every day. Some people may want to simply say it is their own faul...
The Main Problem With Autism
The main problem with autism in my opinion is in the diagnosis of the disease. The spectrum of autism has a ridiculously large range, spanning from Asperger...