Type 3 diabetes
Obesity is on the rise in the United States and with this comes a number of health issues. One of those issues is Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Obesity can lead t...
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Changing stigmas for medical benefits
The endocannabinoid system is one of the few pathways in the nervous system which send messages backwards. This uncommon occurrence always for the endogenous c...
A Whole New Type of Diabetes
This week we discussed a topic that was completely new to me, Type III diabetes. According to “Possible implications of insulin resistance and glucose metabolis...
What's Not to Love?
The article this week revolved around a topic that has been debated in many political and medicinal, as well as ethical, discussions. After reading and discussi...
Akt and GSK3: Not Just Two Acronyms Someone Uses in a Lab
This week in class, we discussed the Akt-GSK3 pathway. The obscure name is enough to make most readers click on or scroll down, but before you do, I recommend y...
Akt/GSK3 Pathway: Quick and Dirty Version
Let’s be honest…after a week of dissecting the article “Beyond cAMP: the regulation of Akt and GSK3 by dopamine receptors,” I barely understand any of it....
Akt/GSK3 pathway and dopamine: a target for antipsychotics
I was intrigued by one of the articles I stumbled across in the news a couple weeks ago. Neuroscience research has shown that Oreos are more addicting than coca...
Alcohol, a Three-Headed Monster
Alcoholism is an issue in the United States that most people try to understand. In the class Neurochemistry, the chemical world often bumps heads with the psyc...
Getting Knocked Around by Concussions
“Just let them play the game!” I often find myself yelling this at the television every Saturday and Sunday. My weekends often are ritualistic in that I enjoy...
Losing Control of the MAPK during Finals Week!
In the spirit of finals week, I think about a discussion on the MAPK pathway in my neurochemistry course, and the first thing that comes to mind is not a partic...