Endocannabinoids: Who am I to judge somebody else’s pain?
Throughout this week, our topic of interest within our Neurochemistry course was endocannabinoids (eCBs). But before misconceptions take place, as marijuana is ...
Category: Disease
Don't Let Us Down: The Culture Behind Concussions in Sports
Due to many symptoms including nausea, sensitivity to bright lights, headache, and general ‘fogginess’, most athletes know right away when an impact...
The Need for a New Migraine Treatment
Migraines are a debilitating neurovascular disorder characterized by frequent headaches, nausea, and sensitivity to light and/or sound among other symptoms. Th...
More Than Just a Headache
Many people suffer from migraines each year. They can quickly put an end to your day as every sound, sight, and touch can cause nauseating pain. Many people h...
Migraines and the Hope for a Cure
Like a blurry dream in the back of my mind, the thought of my first ever migraine lingers. I had just finished the longest run of my cross country career on a b...
Migraines and the Bad Case of Vasodilation
As someone who has been fortunate to never have experienced a migraine, it can be difficult to understand what makes them so brutal. Migraines are more than jus...
The Headache That is a Migrane
We’ve all have had headaches, but most of his haven’t experienced the excruciating pain of a migraine. Some of the typical symptoms of a migraine in...
Migraines: It Really is All in Your Head
This week’s article is more of a common occurrence than most of the others. It is something I have had described, but have not experienced personally. I have be...
The Painful Reality of Migraines
Among the diseases and disorders we have covered so far, many of them have been the result of aging, exposure to environmental factors, and/or inher...
The Environmental Autism
Autism is a disorder that most of us have heard of and are aware of some of the behavioral issues that can accompany someone diagnosed with this disorder. Auti...