Lithium: Too Much of a Good Thing
Many people have heard of using lithium as a treatment for bipolar disorder, but many people don’t know how it works in the brain to help cope w...
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Searching for a Solution
Lithium has been used to help treat a variety of mental disorders. The pathway lithium takes to help keep cells from undergoing apoptosis involves many factors....
Why are Men more likely to get Parkinson’s disease?
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The symptoms are caused by the death of dopamine generating cells in the brain. ...
Concussions and their effects on sports
Concussions or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a head injury that consists of temporary loss of brain function. Symptoms can manifest in a variety of phy...
The Concussed
When a concussion occurs, the first few hours are when the neurological damage really occurs, and the weeks after the injury are when the side effects start to ...
I think you were dropped on your head as a child.
What is the real meaning behind this common saying? Usually, this saying is used when a person says or does something that isn’t very intelligent. The rationale...
Iron and Parkinson's Disease: Why We Should Keep Our Bodies Balanced
Two weeks ago in class, we talked about the importance of iron levels in the development and progression of Parkinson’s disease. As most of the public knows, Pa...
"Light it up and Take a Puff, Pass it to me Now"
For years marijuana has been used both medicinallly as well as recriationally. These days society has made a huge commotion about this drug, trying to determine...
Type 2 Diabetes, a Precursor to Alzheimer’s Disease
Many people are aware of the connection between insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. New research presented in the article, Possible Implications of insulin ...
You Want Me To Do Drink What…?
The focus of this week’s neurochemistry discussion was Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects movement...