Is a pharmacological cure for alcoholism in our future?
One of our recent articles discussed the effects of ethanol, or alcohol as it is more commonly referred to. Multiple signaling pathways in the brain are affect...
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Your Brain on Heavy Metals.
This week in Neurochem we talked about a very controversial and growingly prevalent topic – autism. As most people know, autism is a disorder characterized by a...
Synchronized Dance Therapy for Autism
A new hypothesis in the cause of Autism is that of a dysfunctional motor neuron system. Motor neurons were discovered in the early 1990s while studying the brai...
A Rotating Obsession: Autism Diagnosis and Treatment
As of 2002 autism affected 66 out of 10,000 people in the United States. With its growing prevalence, it is becoming even more important to get a proper diagno...
The Cure for Alcoholism….
This week’s article was about alcohol abuse, alcoholism and the mechanisms behind it. The purpose of this article was to figure out what happens when alcohol e...
Heavy Metal Autism
Our paper this week talked about environmental effects and how they play into theories for how autism starts in kids. One factor that is thought to cause...
The Diversity of Alcoholism
I have for you two scenarios (These stories are not based on any person in particular, but are just general possible scenarios.) First is a story about Edward. ...
Cheers!
What is something 52% of American adults do on a regular basis? Brush their teeth? (Just kidding…78% of adults do that). The real answer is drink alcohol. Yeah....
Does this make me look fat? Treating obesity and leptin resistance
Thanksgiving: one of those holidays of the year where gluttony is encouraged. Americans make enough food to put themselves into a calorie-induced coma for days....
Extra Sugar
High Fructose Corn Syrup!!! First of all, what exactly is it? We all know that it makes an appearance in all of our food. According to the USDA, high fructose c...