Final Blog Post
This class pushed me in ways I did not anticipate. I had to adjust my learning style to be more independent. I expected this class to be like every other scienc...
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Sleep Strengthens Smarts: memory consolidation
Sleep Sleep is a natural process every human requires for survival. This is a state of reversible unconsciousness and decreased motor activity. On average adult...
Sleep: Is it Important for Memory?
Background “Sleep is important.” Most individuals have heard the aforementioned phrase before, but many individuals do not understand just how important sleep i...
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...
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...