Aging, Diabetes, Alzheimer's and Insulin
In class this week, we talked about the connection between Insulin, Diabetes, and Alzheimer’s Disease. In type 1 diabetes, the cells of the pancreas that ...
Category: Disease
A Frightening Proposition
If one were to list the most common fears of people today, they would likely come up with a conglomerate including things like death, heights, spiders, and clow...
Is Alzheimer's Disease really "Type 3" Diabetes?
A rising health concern throughout the world is diabetes. The number of people diagnosed with diabetes in 1985, around 30 million, increased nearly ten fold to ...
Diabetes…An American Epidemic
The number of diagnosed cases of diabetes being classified as type 2 has been rising over the past years in America. The average age of people with type 2 diabe...
"I seem to have lost myself" – Alzheimer's Disease
In the year of 2006, there are nearly 27 million people who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) globally. The latest Alzheimer’s statistics estimated that 5.3 ...
THC and Cannabinoids Involved in Mental Disorder Therapies
Of the most notable mental disorders, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and eating disorders have been examined with relation to endocannabinoid therapies. Th...
Marijuana as a treatment for eating disorders?
There is a great deal of stigmatism about weight in the United States. While there is some media about self-acceptance and building confidence we constantly enc...
Smoking Marijuana Causes…Schizophrenia?
When you hear marijuana what do you think of? For me, I don’t think much of it other than a waste of money to cause you to feel a little loopy and give you the ...
Music Therapy: A Possible Treatment for Autism
Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder that has increased in number of cases, from 3 in 10,000 in 1970 to 66 in 10,000 in 2002. Genetic factors alone cann...
Bipolar Disorder and the Stigma of Mental Illness
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a mental disorder characterized by changes in mood. BD I has cycles of mania and depression while BD II has cycles of hypomania and dep...