Obesity: More than Poor Nutrition and Laziness
Many people are aware of the obesity epidemic in the United States. Many people also associate obesity with extreme over-eating and rare exercise...
Category: Disease
Lithium: Too Much of a Good Thing
Many people have heard of using lithium as a treatment for bipolar disorder, but many people don’t know how it works in the brain to help cope w...
Wait, what?
One thing to know before you dive into anything on this blog. This stuff is very complicated. This weeks article in particular was very scientifically based an...
Searching for a Solution
Lithium has been used to help treat a variety of mental disorders. The pathway lithium takes to help keep cells from undergoing apoptosis involves many factors....
I think you were dropped on your head as a child.
What is the real meaning behind this common saying? Usually, this saying is used when a person says or does something that isn’t very intelligent. The rationale...
Iron and Parkinson's Disease: Why We Should Keep Our Bodies Balanced
Two weeks ago in class, we talked about the importance of iron levels in the development and progression of Parkinson’s disease. As most of the public knows, Pa...
Type 2 Diabetes, a Precursor to Alzheimer’s Disease
Many people are aware of the connection between insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. New research presented in the article, Possible Implications of insulin ...
Akt and GSK3: Not Just Two Acronyms Someone Uses in a Lab
This week in class, we discussed the Akt-GSK3 pathway. The obscure name is enough to make most readers click on or scroll down, but before you do, I recommend y...
Akt/GSK3 Pathway: Quick and Dirty Version
Let’s be honest…after a week of dissecting the article “Beyond cAMP: the regulation of Akt and GSK3 by dopamine receptors,” I barely understand any of it....
Wait, these drugs do what?
If I were to tell my mom I just spent a week reading and delving into an article discussing an alternative signaling pathway of the dopamine receptor involving ...