Get Your Head in the Game: Sports and Concussions
When encountering a concussion many people look at it as not a huge deal saying things like “don’t worry I can still play”, “they just n...
Category: Health
As if you needed another reason to eat healthy
So pretty much everyone has heard of Type-II diabetes and its connection to obesity. The hallmark of Type-II diabetes is insulin resistance. Basically your body...
Obesity: Is it a choice or a brain disorder?
Obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States along with other parts of the world. The concern of people not being able to eat because food cost too much ...
Lithium Toxicology
Lithium is a soft metal, it is the smallest metal found on column one, row two of the periodic table. Due to its small size and plus one charge lithium is usef...
My Brain Made Me Do It…Obesity As a Brain Disease?
America has a growing problem with obesity that raises concerns about the future health of the nation. Additional, the incidence of childhood obesity is steadil...
Obesity: More than Poor Nutrition and Laziness
Many people are aware of the obesity epidemic in the United States. Many people also associate obesity with extreme over-eating and rare exercise...
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...
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...