Gaining Empathy for the Mentally Ill: Schizophrenia Edition
Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease that effects 24 million people worldwide, 2.8 million of those people being in the United States. Schizophrenia is a dis...
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Amyloid Beta Plaques, Insulin Resistance, and Alzheimer’s Disease
Introduction Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease classified by cognitive impairments of memory loss, critical thinking, and social skills. R...
What is Alzheimer’s Disease?
What is Alzheimer’s Disease? It is something that so many people hear about, so many people see firsthand, but something that not many people know much a...
Neurofibrillary Tangles and Insulin Resistance in Alzheimer’s Disease
Artstract by Jessica Howard Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurological disease marked by a degradation of neurons and loss of brain tissue. ...
Preventing Insulin Resistance in Alzheimer’s Through Diet
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that causes difficultly with cognitive function, behavior, and day-to-day life functioning and it effects ove...
Oral Hypoglycemics to Treat Alzheimers?
Alzheimer’s and The Brain: Alzheimer’s is a neurodegenerative disease that results in memory loss and decreased cognitive function. It begins by at...
Whats going on with weed?
“Stay off the weeeeeeed” – Steven A. Smith There is a general lack of understanding surrounding the topic of marijuana and cannabinoids. Somethings most d...
Sleep On It: The Impact of Sleep on Learning and Memory
How is Memory Consolidated? In 1900, the idea that memories require time to become resistant to disruption was proposed: the consolidation hypothesis. In order ...
Final Blog post: a personal reflection
My experience with this class: Neurochemistry was by far the most interactive and learning-focused class that I have taken so far in my college life. It has hel...
Sleep: Is it Important for Memory?
Background “Sleep is important.” Most individuals have heard the aforementioned phrase before, but many individuals do not understand just how important sleep i...