Lucid Dreaming: What it is and how to do it
Figure 1: A general picture of lucid dreaming. Sleep and memory All through grade school and college, I always heard people say that staying up late cramming be...
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Final Blog Post
Being wrong is… actually, perfectly okay Neurochemistry this semester has given me the not-so-fun, but very much needed opportunity to practice being okay with...
What Happens When We Don’t Sleep?
What’s something that we all have in common, well we sleep. I’ll admit it, some of us get more than others, but at the end of the day our favorite a...
Too Stressed to Sleep: How Benadryl addiction creeps up on college students
The drug Benadryl (diphenhydramine) is an OTC antihistamine used to treat symptoms allergies. The drug itself is not supposed to be used for easy sleep, but it ...
How to Improve Your Quality of Sleep
There are many actions that can be taken to improve one’s quality of sleep. Many people have trouble sleeping, staying asleep, or have a sleep disorder. One sho...
Medicinal Marijuana as a Potential Method to Treat PTSD
Our paper for this topic talked a lot about the dysregulation and harm that can come from improperly functioning cannabinoid receptors. But for fun, lets look a...
Sleep Stages
Stages of sleep: Image to the right: has approximate times for each stage of sleep. Keep in mind that everyone’s sleep stages vary! Sleep is split into st...
Final Blog Post
Image 1 It’s finals week everyone, we made it to the end of the semester and are nearing the finish line. Because it’s finals week, and mot...
Final Blog Post
Throughout the semester, I had a major increase in learning. I had to utilize many skills that I have developed through the four years of being at Concordia Col...
Opportunity to BREW
Neurochemistry has allowed me to integrate and apply the skills and competencies I have gained throughout my time at Concordia in the following ways. It caused ...