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...
Category: Health
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...
Prenatal, Perinatal, and Postnatal Music Therapy
Music Therapy and the Brain: There are countless ways in which the listening, singing, or performing music promote positive chemical alterations in the brain. ...
Endocannabinoid Signaling and Multiple Sclerosis: Promising Treatment Avenues
Artstract #3: ECS signaling balances excitation and inhibition by decreasing neuroinflammation When you hear the term “endocannabinoids” what’s the first...
The Widespread Wonders of the Endocannabinoid System
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) has proven itself to be a vital player in many central nervous system functions, potentially serving as a new therapeutic mecha...
Endocannabinoids and Alzheimer’s Disease
If you’ve done any research on the neurochemistry of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), you’ve probably run into a few of the same molecular players like β-amyloid plaqu...
Is Fat Bad? Exploring the Ketogenic Diet and Obesity
One thing’s for certain in the world of nutrition and food lifestyle, it’s complicated. There are myriad, wildly different diets, many claiming fantastic result...
Did You Skip Breakfast This Morning? That Might Be Helping Your Brain
I am sure if you go around asking individuals what they think the most important meal of the day is, more than likely they will say Breakfast. However, some neu...