Insulin signaling and Alzheimer’s disease
The article we have covered this week, “Insulin signaling pathway and related molecules: Role in neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s disease,” was an articl...
Category: Disease
Football: The Epidemic Hidden Beneath the Helmet
You dive for the ball, just barely have it in your hands, when you collide head-first with the player from the other team! You pick yourself up off the ground, ...
Psychostimulant Use Disorder (PSUD)
A. Psychostimulant Use Disorder (PSUD) PSUD is characterized by the compulsive use of substances like amphetamines and cocaine, in which the user consumes the s...
The Cycle of Obesity
Obesity Obesity is an extremely dangerous and costly condition affecting 41.9% of US adults and 19.7% of US children and adolescents. This is not just as issue ...
Obesity, Metabolic Diseases, and Diet Across The Planet
A. Obesity and metabolic diseases Obesity and metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes are major public health challenges worldwide, characterized by chronic ...
Schizophrenia
A. What is Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by disturbances in cognition, perception, and behavior. While the pr...
Cancer With A Focus In The Brain
A. The Paper Understanding and Exploiting Cell Signaling Convergence Nodes and Pathway Cross-talk in Malignant Brain Cancer talks about the intricate molecular ...
A New Hope for Treatment of Brain Tumors
Glioblastomas Glioblastomas (GBM) are the most common and deadly malignant brain cancer. These brain tumors are aggressive, with their complex genetic makeups a...
Glioblastoma; A Case Study of Converging and Complex Cell Signaling Pathways
Glioblastoma is a type of brain tumor; glio means ‘from glial cells’ which are cells that support neuronal cells in the brain, and blastoma means ‘a form of tum...
High Fat Diets Can Change Our Brains
It is painfully aware to us that as technology advances and society modernizes, obesity is becoming a severe epidemic. Why did obesity appear as we became more ...