Your Brain on Fat: Why Hypothalamic Inflammation Matters
Most of us know that a high-fat, high-sugar diet can lead to weight gain. Many people are aware of how obesity is linked to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and ...
Category: Health
Protecting Your Brain to Protect Your Body: A New Angle on Preventing Obesity
Abstract created by Gabe Sparks Obesity is often labeled as a simple imbalance between the calories we consume and the calories we burn, but this disease runs m...
Brain-Body Connection in Obesity
Recently, hypothalamic inflammation has been linked to obesity. The evidence suggests a high fat diet leads to brain inflammation, causing the uncoupling of foo...
Why We Never Forget: How the Brain Builds Stressful Memories
Artstract Created by S. Mohamed Have you ever noticed how the most stressful or traumatic moments in life tend to stick with you forever? Maybe it was a car acc...
Stress: The Memory That Sticks
Original artstract by M. Shercliffe. We’ve all experienced moments of intense stress that seem burned into our memories, whether it’s a near-miss car accident, ...
Exercise is Medicine: How Moving Your Body Calms Your Mind
Abstract created by G. Sparks Memories play a huge role in our everyday lives. We’re constantly forming them, whether we realize it or not, and they help ...
Addiction Rewires Your Brain: Can We Rewire It Back?
Artstract created S. Mohamed Addiction is not a choice. It’s a complex brain disease. And for millions of people struggling with psychostimulant use—cocai...
Childhood Trauma & Memory
Traumatic experiences in childhood have a more significant impact on the brain than acute trauma in adulthood. Let’s look into the field of developmental trauma...
Psychostimulant Addiction: A Learning Disease
You may have heard that addiction is a disease, but this disease uniquely harms the body – it attacks learning. Psychostimulant Use Disorder (PUD) is a chronic...
Medicating Addiction
What is Addiction Addiction is a chronic dependence on a substance. The condition involves compulsive seeking and persistent use despite the negative contributi...