The Top 5 Things You Need to Know About a Concussion
1. It’s more than just a “simple hit” to the head A concussion can occur from a traumatic brain injury that ultimately affects brain function. These...
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Contract for Injury?
In the past few years, there has been controversy surrounding concussions in the National Football League (NFL). It all began to snowball in 2002, where Dr. Ben...
Anyone can be an Addict: Understanding the Science behind Addiction
Addiction, a topic that is not always heavily discussed, yet more likely than not most people reading this know someone who deals with addiction. Many people be...
Rewards Gone Rogue: Drugs and your Brain
Addiction occurs when a person is physically and mentally dependent on a specific substance. Most the time, the substance is a drug. Drug addiction has always b...
Schizophrenia: what is the real story?
Let’s be honest, the most information the general population receives regarding schizophrenia comes from movies, TV shows, and other forms of medi...
Fighting the Voices in Your Head: Understanding the Reality of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness
Imagine a world in which you live with hearing voices that only you can hear-constantly putting thoughts into your mind that aren’t real. Voices that end up con...
Grounding Schizophrenia in Reality
The media characterizes schizophrenia by portraying individuals as violent, unpredictable, and crazy, driven to madness by the voices in their own heads, a crea...
Food for Thought: The connection between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s
Both Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and type 2 diabetes are products of insulin resistance. Type 2 diabetes has insulin resistance in the peripheral organs, muscle an...
Picking Apart the Spectrum
The number of Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD cases is on the rise. Today the percentage of children with ASD is roughly 2.4% whereas in 2010 the percent was 1....
What is going on with Autism?
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are one of the most prevalent disorders in the world, as 1 in 68 children have been diagnosed. As the number of cases increase, ...