ALS Challenge: I Nominate You to Dump Memantine on Your Head?
Many of you have probably done the ALS ice bucket challenge and nominated your friends as a way to spread awareness for this disease. Well I’m proud to i...
Category: Disease
Too Many Players on the Field
ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a disease that has received much attention in the past few months due to the infamous “Ice Bucket Challenge.” Though t...
ALS and the Chilling Reality of the Ice Bucket Challenge
For many people they have recently been exposed to the acronym ALS through the very popular Ice Bucket Challenge, but how many of those people actually understa...
ALS: Recent Publicity Reignites Awareness
ALS awareness has taken the nation by storm recently thanks to the famous “ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge.” I personally have little to no experience wit...
Obesity: Is it our fault?
This week we discussed an article that claims obesity is a brain disease and that over-nutritious diets change our brain chemistry. In contrast the to “eat les...
Knowledge is Power: power for muscles affected by ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease made famous by Lou Gehrig, is the most common adult-onset motor neuron disease. Characterized by upper and lower...
Marijuana: the real story behind endocannabinoids
Everyone in the United States seems to have this stereotypically view of marijuana. When we hear about it, we think of all the pop culture references from musi...
Iron-Chelator? I thought the super hero was Ironman…
A few weeks ago we discussed the new idea that iron levels in the brain potentially have implications in the development of Parkinson’s disease. As a progressi...
Food or Thought: not food for thought
It’s not a new idea that the majority of the food people eat here in the US is unhealthy; we are a nation of convenience. Fast food, ready to prepare meals, an...
Mystery and Motivation
Lithium has been used to treat bipolar disorder for nearly half a century now, even though lithium’s therapeutic mechanism has remained an enigma. No one is ab...