Bipolar Disorder: A Disorder with No Face
70% of Bipolar disorder patients are initially misdiagnosed. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive disorder, is characterized by dramatic changes in ...
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Bright Side, Dark Side- Bipolar Disorder
Most people experience emotional ups and downs during the course of their lifetimes. Depending on either the events happening in our lives, or hormonal changes ...
Mountains and Valleys: The Roller Coaster that is Bipolar Disorder.
Bipolar Disorder. What is it? You may have a preconceived notion, like I did, that it is when you can turn on a dime and change moods from hyperactive to depr...
The Ups and Downs of Bipolar Disorder Treatments
Are the costs of bipolar disorder treatment outweighing the benefits? The current treatment methods involve Lithium drugs for these psychoactive treatments. The...
Concussions and Advances in safer Helmets
This past week in class we discussed the neurological complications of concussions. The most common occurrences of concussions occur in sports, specifically foo...
Concussions Are Sort of a Big Deal. We Should Do Something About Those.
Concussions are fairly common and inexpensive with the treatments we currently use (some good old rest and relaxation); as a result, it is often hard to see the...
Brain Tackles: Concussions in Football
How do you differentiate between the mild and spicy salsas at a Mexican restaurant? It’s obvious: one has a jalapeno and one doesn’t, or one tastes clearly spic...
MAPK pathway and the brain
This week, the discussion topic was the MAPK pathway and its connection to Parkinson’s(PD), Alzheimer’s (AD), and Lou Gehrig’s (LGD) diseases. One of the first...
Will the MAPK pathway lead scientists to a cure for many common neurodegenerative diseases?
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are a scary thought for many peopl...
The Complexity of the MAPK Pathway
Our article this week talks about how the MAPK pathway is highly linked with several neurological diseases including Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’...