The Surprising Relationship between Insulin and Alzheimer's
There exists a link between type II diabetes and Alzheimer’s. People who have type II diabetes are at a significantly higher probability of developing Alzheimer...
Category: Disease
Alzheimer’s linked to Diabetes
The topic in our Neurochemistry class this past week was Alzheimer’s Disease and how it is linked to Type II Diabetes Mellitus, T2DM. The science behind this li...
Insulin: impacting more than just diabetes
Those impacted by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has reached an alarming number of 5 million individuals as of 2015 in the United States alone. AD has no cure, which ...
Heritability of ALS
What is ALS? Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the motor neurons in the brain and the spinal cord. As ...
The beginning of the cure for ALS.
If I say the words “ice bucket challenge”, do you know what purpose of it is? Or what it is aiming to cure? The answer is the all-too-familia...
ALS… Why Do We Care?
ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that quickly kills motor neuron functioning in the body. In most cases, patients afflicted with the disease die within five ...
ALS: More Than Just an Ice Bucket Challenge
Recently ALS has been on the radar of many because of something called the ALS ice bucket challenge. The challenge composes of people dumping a bucket of ice on...
ALS: Put your Money Where the Ice is
Imagine if a close family member or friend was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The statistics flocking into your mind would include the debilitati...
ALS: More is still to come…
This week in NeuroChem we discussed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, which is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes de...
Death and Dying: Advanced Care Planning
“Thinking about death clarifies your life.” -Candy Chang Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease is a neurodegen...