Addiction: Mental or Physical?
What is Addiction? Addiction is common and many people may know someone who is addicted to something, their phone, their favorite drink of choice,...
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Neuroimaging and Addiction: A Hope for the Future
Artstract from DALL-E2 created by Kailee Vigen Introduction to Addiction Millions of Americans ages 12 and older struggle with addiction. These substance proble...
The Pathways of Addiction
What is Addiction? Addiction is a dependency on a substance or activity, usually drugs of abuse, that is often motivated by the hope of escaping discomfort. Thi...
Addiction: Is It Really A Choice?
Artwork by Olivia Pederson What is Addiction? In simple terms, addiction is a loss of control of drug use. The word “drug” doesn’t mean you ca...
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...
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...
Neurofibrillary Tangles and Insulin Resistance in Alzheimer’s Disease
Artstract by Jessica Howard Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurological disease marked by a degradation of neurons and loss of brain tissue. ...