Can Music Reduce Your Stress and Pain Perception?
Music seems to be everywhere these days and serves a variety of purposes from person to person. Some use music to quell their nerves, others use it for focus me...
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How Music is Raising the “Bar” in Brain Functioning
What’s your favorite song? Can you picture a specific time or place that makes that song so special? Music has been incorporated into the lives of humans for hu...
The Final Chapter of Neurochemistry
Neurochemistry has been a class I have feared since being a first-semester freshman. I struggled in Gen. Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. I started to find a li...
Your brain may like a music genre even if you don’t
How many times have you heard someone complain when a country song comes on the radio, but will end up tapping their foot or humming along at some point during ...
A world of Music
Music, a universally understood and appreciated artistic form of expression. We use it to amplify or suppress emotions, share in creativity, empathize wi...
Treating anxiety through the endocannabinoid system
The Endocannabinoid System When a person speaks of cannabinoids, most people’s minds will automatically think of weed or CBD oil, but it is extremely impo...
A Safer Replacement for Delta-9 THC
Legalizing marijuana has been a pressing debate throughout the past decade. Our generation has been able to be front and center on this hot topic. Slowly, we ar...
Miracle Drug?
Your family might not be like my family. At Thanksgiving, In between the catching up on how school and work is, an interesting conversation came up betwe...
How Endocannabinoids Change Your Brain: The Sneaky Role of Beta Arrestin
The first thing many people think of when someone starts talking about cannabinoid signaling likely isn’t how cannabinoid exposure can change how your brain pro...
Endocannabinoids and Reduced Inflammation
If I asked you to name an organ system in the human body, which one would you pick? The cardiovascular or nervous system, due to the well known and fasci...