Your Brain on a High Fat Diet: Is fast food really worth it?
You’re hungry, you drive to McDonald’s for lunch. You get back to your office and you decide to skip the stairs, and take the elevator. These little...
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Neurochem Semester Story
The Neurochemistry capstone course brought together all of Concordia’s goals for liberal learning and provided me with a unique and meaningful capstone experien...
NeuroChem at Concordia
As a capstone to my Neuroscience major at Concordia College, Neurochemistry has addressed all five of the college goals for liberal learning. As a course, I bel...
Our Neurochemistry Family
The Neurochemistry course has allowed me to become more aware of the many impacts of the brain on the rest of the body. Neurochemistry at Concordia gave me an o...
This is Your Brain on Food
Discussing obesity becomes difficult when considering every side of the “argument.” Between social advocacy to the neurochemistry of weight, many perspectives h...
The End of a Chapter
As this class comes to a close, it marks not only the end of a semester, but the end of my undergraduate career; a bittersweet feeling as this chapter comes to ...
Obesity and the Western Diet
Obesity has become an epidemic across the world, but especially in the Western world. Specifically in America, there has been an extreme increase in cases of ob...
“The Gang Does Neurochemistry”
“Neurochemistry. What a beautiful word. Chemistry of the brain. It sounds so complex and I’m sure it is.” This is what I thought when I saw this class when I wa...
Underlying Value in Concordia College’s Neurochemistry Course
The neurochemistry course at Concordia College has been a pleasure to be a part of as it has solidified my interest in the mystery of the brain and led me to be...
Obesity and Inflammation
Weeks after week we discuss health topics and the relation to the brain. It seems a common motif is the story of inflammation and its role in knocking the body ...