Mountains and Valleys: The Roller Coaster that is Bipolar Disorder.
Bipolar Disorder. What is it? You may have a preconceived notion, like I did, that it is when you can turn on a dime and change moods from hyperactive to depr...
Category: Disease
The Ups and Downs of Bipolar Disorder Treatments
Are the costs of bipolar disorder treatment outweighing the benefits? The current treatment methods involve Lithium drugs for these psychoactive treatments. The...
Brain Tackles: Concussions in Football
How do you differentiate between the mild and spicy salsas at a Mexican restaurant? It’s obvious: one has a jalapeno and one doesn’t, or one tastes clearly spic...
MAPK pathway and the brain
This week, the discussion topic was the MAPK pathway and its connection to Parkinson’s(PD), Alzheimer’s (AD), and Lou Gehrig’s (LGD) diseases. One of the first...
Will the MAPK pathway lead scientists to a cure for many common neurodegenerative diseases?
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are a scary thought for many peopl...
The Complexity of the MAPK Pathway
Our article this week talks about how the MAPK pathway is highly linked with several neurological diseases including Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’...
Rethinking reasons for weight loss: Alzheimer’s and type II diabetes
I don’t mean to harp on body image and societal pressures too much. I know that this was my topic last week, but our article this week begs me to write a second...
Quality of Life and End of Life Decisions
In a discussion of neurodegenerative diseases, especially those that appear as late-onset varieties, a question arises about prolonging life and improving quali...
MAPK: the Wrong Way?
The more I read about neurochemical systems and associated diseases and disorders, the more I get a sense for how vast the problems and intricacies for treatmen...
A Light of Hope in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway is one of the most important cell signaling pathways in human brain. Many crucial cellular activities are contro...