Putting A Price On The Brain: Concussions And Football
Paul Oliver, Andre Walters, David Duerson, Junior Seau, Ray Easterling, Shane Dorness and Terri Long have three things in common. They are all former NFL player...
Category: Disease
Walk, Run, and Eat Your Way Awar From Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s disease has always been a disease that older generations get and us youthful people don’t need to worry about it until later. That is wh...
Is your sweet tooth breaking down your brain? Insulin’s role in Alzheimer’s Pathology
Living in a society where overindulgence of food is commonplace and obesity rates are rampant, we are well aware that too much sugar and fat in our diets is bad...
The Fountain of Youth
As we age we naturally loose our ability to perform successful biological tasks in our bodies, making us more susceptible to diseases. One of the biologi...
Could Alzheimer's be a Disease of Over-Indulgence?
When you hear the words Alzheimer’s disease, most people think of old age, and rightly so, the timeline of the disease is such that elderly people are mos...
Put Down the Burger Today, Lower Your Risk of Alzheimer’s in the Future
Alzheimer’s – it’s the thing that a lot of us fear in the what-seems-so-far-off future. I often times complain about being a “forgetful” person. I’ll forget to ...
Forget-Me-Not: What Really Happens in the Brain in Alzheimer’s Disease?
To wrap up this past weekend, I watched The Notebook while folding my laundry. It was an applicable movie to the Neurochemistry class topic of the past...
But I Really Love Pizza.
As your typical “Type A” college student, I am running through each day of my life at a million miles an hour. I complain about little things like l...
Eating Ourselves Into Alzheimer's
Alzheimer’s disease is a debilitating disease that arguably affects the people closest to the afflicted as much as it affects the afflicted. What if I told you...
The Thief in the Night: Alzheimer's Disease
I remember it like it was yesterday. I woke up to the phone ringing at 3AM on a Thursday night. It was Grandma again, asking for a ride to church. My dad tried ...