The Genetics behind Addiction
Do you ever wonder why addictions seem to run in families? A parent may struggle with alcohol, a sibling with pills, and suddenly the pattern becomes hard to ig...
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Glioblastoma: The Resilient Brain Cancer
Feature image from Medical Treatment in Germany. [2] What is Glioblastoma? Glioblastoma is one of the deadliest cancers with extremely low survival rates, of ab...
Science of Trauma: How Stress Hardwires the Brain
Feature image created by K. Leppke with help of ChatGPT The Story of a Stressful Memory Why do some moments fade while others remain stuck within the memory? Th...
Neurological Imprints: Adolescent Addiction
Cover Image Artstract designed by Cayley Borrud with the use of ChatGPT Adolescence is often a rocky time full of firsts and figuring out identity. But what if ...
Rewired Learning: The Hidden Science of Addiction
Featured image created by Julia Wolf and Microsoft CoPilot The Science of Addiction Addiction is no longer understood as simply a behavioral problem, it is a di...
Addiction as Memory: When Psychostimulants Cause Learning to Become a Problem
Image from Clay Behavior Health Center (https://ccbhc.org/understanding-addiction/) Psychostimulants Spark Learning Pathways Your brain learns from experience, ...
The Making of the Mind: What Changes in Schizophrenia
The human brain is like a city under constant construction, with billions of cells building and connecting to form the networks that shape our thoughts, emotion...
Cells to Circuits: Understanding Schizophrenia from Early Development
Artstact created by K. Leppke with help of ChatGPT Neural Stem Cells and Development The development of your brain was an extremely complex process, which was c...
Seizures, Synapses, and the Science behind THC
The Brain’s Endocannabinoid System The brain is constantly sending an receiving signals that keep our whole body functioning properly, but it needs help staying...
Beyond Symptoms: Molecular Recovery After a Concussion
[1] A concussion, a form of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), occurs when biomechanical force is applied to the brain and produces functional disturbances wit...