The Maze of the Mind: Navigating the Complexities of Schizophrenia
Artstract by Timea Vrabcová (using DALL.E) Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder that is characterized by a range of symptoms including delusions, hallucin...
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Reducing the Risk of Schizophrenia Through Prenatal Nutrition
Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by negative and positive symptoms. Positive symptoms include delusions and hallucinations. Delusions are beliefs...
Gaining Empathy for the Mentally Ill: Schizophrenia Edition
Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease that effects 24 million people worldwide, 2.8 million of those people being in the United States. Schizophrenia is a dis...
Amyloid Beta Plaques, Insulin Resistance, and Alzheimer’s Disease
Introduction Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease classified by cognitive impairments of memory loss, critical thinking, and social skills. R...
What is Alzheimer’s Disease?
What is Alzheimer’s Disease? It is something that so many people hear about, so many people see firsthand, but something that not many people know much a...
Oral Hypoglycemics to Treat Alzheimers?
Alzheimer’s and The Brain: Alzheimer’s is a neurodegenerative disease that results in memory loss and decreased cognitive function. It begins by at...
Cannabinoids, Cannabis, and Marijuana: What is the difference?
Wait, they are not the same? No, they are not, but it really is not that simple. They are somewhat “parts of each other”, which makes it easy for people to misu...
The Benefits of Marijuana and the Science of Behind it All.
Marijuana Usage in the USA is Increasing A recent Gallop poll found 49% (up from 45% in 2017) of Americans have tried marijuana in some form at some point (Hubb...
Imaginary Friends: Schizophrenia in Adolescents?
Prevalence of Schizophrenia in Adolescents Childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS) is very rare. It is only considered to be COS when diagnosed in children under 13...
Trauma Reminders: PTSD Triggers
Development of PTSD Triggers Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder that develops after witnessing or experiencing a traumatic event....