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...
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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...
Understanding Autism, Neurochemically and Beyond
Rates of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are rising in the U.S., and as a result, scientists are scrambling to figure out what is behind this increase and what w...
Medical Marijuana Decreases Drug Abuse
The endocannabinoid system is a naturally occurring system within the brain. Researchers have been looking at CBD and THC, which can both be extracted from cann...
Using the Gut to Treat Depression through Endocannabinoids
Your brain controls everything in your body right? Well, somewhat. In the case of some reflexes, the signal to pull your hand back from something hot may not ha...
The Endocannabinoid System’s Role in Therapeutics
When the endocannabinoid system is mentioned, most people generally infer that it has something to do with cannabis, more commonly known as marijuana. What most...
Your Weight Is Completely Under Your Control: The Sneaky Myth Linking Obesity and Moral Failure
Susan Greenhalgh’s 2015 book Fat Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat, identifies the idea that “Weight is under individual control; virtually e...
Obesity and the Brain; What’s the Connection?
Obesity and cognitive decline; how closely related could they be really? As it turns out, the connection between these two can be mediated by one step. Insuli...
Alzheimers Disease – Initial Connections for Future Answers
While we have made numerous advancements in the past few decades, there is likely much more we don’t know, let alone understand, about the human brain than what...
The Representation of Obesity in Society: Neurochemical Basis
Worth my Weight… Over the years, society’s vision of ideal beauty and weight has evolved. In the Renaissance era, a heavier weight was viewed as the optim...