How Does a High Fat Diet Correlate with Hypothalamic Inflammation?
How the body controls and regulates healthy eating There are two primary neurons that send signals to our brain to either start eating or stop eating, which ma...
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Metabolic syndrome and Obesity 101
Metabolic syndrome and obesity have become pressing health concerns worldwide, affecting millions of individuals across all age groups. Even Though these condit...
FRAGILE! Your Brain Needs Time to Repair Itself
Artstract made in Canva Concussions are well understood by some, usually those who have had a concussion or been in concussion prone settings like sports, but n...
Concussions and TBI
Concussions/ mild TBIs are injuries of the brain that result in a harmful metabolic cascade of events within the neural tissue. These injuries are due to direct...
Insulin and Alzheimer’s disease
A. The Pathway I/ Insulin in the body The insulin signaling pathway plays a crucial role in regulating glucose metabolism and energy homeostasis in the body. Ke...
The Role of Memory Formation in Anxiety
Making memories is crucial for our learning and survival. Our memories are what make us who we are. They shape our personality. Emotional or stressful memories ...
Addiction and the Brain
What is addiction? Addiction is a dependence on a substance or certain activity like drugs, alcohol, gambling, and more. What characterizes a behavior as an add...
Do medications have the same effect as psychostimulant drugs on the brain?
What are psychostimulants? Before understanding the comparisons between medications and psychostimulants, such as cocaine, nicotine, amphetamine, and more, it i...
What Do You Mean this Mouse has Schizophrenia?
What do you mean this mouse has Schizophrenia? – Mice models in Schizophrenia Research By: Hannah Olson You’ve seen the headlines that go, “Mice with Schi...
The Case for Schizophrenia as a Neurodevelopmental Disease
Schizophrenia is a condition that, like many other neuropsychiatric conditions, is not well understood. Because it is not well understood, treating and d...