Addiction: Why Can’t We Stop?
What is Drug Addiction: Drug addiction is a medical condition characterized by the compulsive seeking and taking of drugs for rewarding stimulus despite adverse...
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The Opioid Epidemic and Its Effects On Our Brains
The opioid epidemic has become an enormous issue nationally. In the United States, a public health emergency was declared in 2017 in relation to the opioid cris...
Addiction: a Disease, Not a Decision
Addiction is an issue continuously growing worldwide. This disease is most commonly associated with drug use but it can also entail other activities that can ha...
Epigenetics and their impact on Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is commonly portrayed in media as its more severe cases, resulting in illusions of the individual leading to them hearing and seeing things that a...
Schizophrenia: A Developmental Issue
A Developmental Issue? While majority of Schizophrenia causation is a mystery to current scientists, the most prominent theory is one of brain development. Peop...
Deciphering Reality: Fact and Fiction about Schizophrenia
Source: https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/recognizing-schizophrenia.aspx Recently in popular culture is has become a movement of acceptance and understanding when ...
The Disease You Can’t See: Dealing with Mental Illness
What is Mental Illness? Mental illness is a sickness in the brain that affects how a person is thinking, feeling, or how they process information. In many cases...
Schizophrenia and its Image
What is Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia is a long-term mental disorder where an individual has an inability to interpret reality. This is often characterized by ha...
Schizophrenia Broken Down
Schizophrenia is arguably one of the most difficult neurological diseases to understand if you do not have experience with it. Some of the symptoms are f...
The Schizophrenia Story
The Story of Schizophrenia With symptoms ranging from quietness to experiencing hallucinations or delusions, schizophrenia is a mental health illness tha...