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...
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"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...
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...
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....