Schizophrenia: A breakdown
Schizophrenia is a neurodegenerative disease that over 2.6 million American have, although over 40 percent of them are untreated. While there are a lot of movie...
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Schizophrenia ~ Reality vs Delusions in the Media
Signs and Symptoms of Schizophrenia can be categorized into three categories (Positive, Negative, and Cognitive). Below is a great diagram of the difference bet...
Insulin: not just about diabetes
Insulin – a hormone involved in more than just Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition that affects how the body processes glucose. Insu...
Yes, it is that bad!
It is alarming at this point the growth rate of neurodegenerative diseases, in both young and older people. Take Alzheimer’s Disease, for example, it is h...
Top 3 ways to care for loved ones affected by Alzheimer’s Disease
What is happening in the world of Alzheimer’s? Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is affecting individuals and families all over the world, and numbers suggest that it is...
Lifestyle factors can impact brain health
Alzheimer’s disease: New research keeps shedding light on Alzheimer’s Disease prevention and treatment. New studies have linked Diabetes Mellitus Type II...
Forgetting to Live Healthy
Introducing the problem As advanced as modern medicine is, there are still anomalies which have the scientific community confused. Increasingly Alzheimer’s dise...
Road Block on Mental Health
Stigmatization and Schizophrenia Schizophrenia, as well as other psychotic and mental illnesses, are often the targets of stigmatization. It is unfortunately ve...
Untangling The Brain: What’s New With Neurofibrillary Tangles
What’s the big idea with tangles? As some of you already know or have heard me talk about, neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are insoluble collections of mic...
How Neurochemistry helped me ____.
Instill a love for learning Neurochemistry has been a unique course in that the majority of the necessary work is done outside of the classroom setting and inde...