Neurochemistry: It's all over the place!
What is a capstone? Maybe a more appropriate question would be what should a capstone course be? In my opinion, a capstone course should be an integratio...
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Knowledge is Power
This last semester in Neurochemistry has been filled with interesting topics about alcoholism, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, concussions, bipolar disorder and so...
Neurochemistry: Integrating Many Scientific Fields
A capstone is a culmination or peak of achievement. My experience in Neurochemistry this semester fit this label well, as it integrated several scientific field...
Neurochemistry as a Capstone
Neuroscience is a fairly new frontier in the scientific world. It combines biology, chemistry, psychology and other fields at the specific point of the nervous...
Is Autism really on the rise?
This week’s article discussed a hypothesis surrounding the environmental and genetic factors that may contribute to the development of autism. From 1970 t...
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...
Final Reflections
I enjoyed this Neurochemistry capstone course firstly, because of the interesting and fascinating topics that we covered. In the beginning part of the course, w...
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...
Amyloid Beta Plaques: Destructive or Protective?
Contrary to popular “scientific” belief, we aren’t really that sure what causes the neurodegeneration of brain tissue in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) patients...
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. ...