Capping the Stone – The Culmination of My Concordia Experience
If any one of you decides to attend Concordia be prepared to hear a lot about BREWing. However, unfortunately this BREWing is not of the alcoholic variety (gene...
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Alzheimer’s – What Makes Memories
Alzheimer’s is all around us. It’s pretty hard to ignore considering it not only is the the most common form of dementia but it also affects over 3 ...
5 Things Your High School Gym Teacher Didn’t Tell You About Concussions
Like many other students at Concordia College, I am (was) a student athlete. I wrestled for three years at Concordia, and I wrestled all the way from hig...
Having Trouble Remembering Simple Every Day Tasks? Read This!
I forgot that my research group was meeting in our classroom instead of the professors office? Does that mean I have Alzheimer’s disease? To answer my own...
Dopamine’s Other SECRET Job
You’ve likely heard about the neurotransmitter called dopamine. The first time I heard about it was in 7th grade health class when we were talking about i...
Four Things About Autism You’ve Probably Never Hear…
One word that parents always dread hearing is coming up more and more in elementary schools. Autism. For some it’s a debilitating disorder that impairs ba...
Capstone Courses Are Pretty Neat
Sometimes we like to make fun of liberal arts degrees. I may not understand my tax forms, but at least I know about quantum tunnelling! Those kinds of comment...
CAP-Ping Off My College Experience
The neurochemistry capstone is unlike any science class I have taken at Concordia. While the background of chemistry, biology, and neuroscience is helpful, it w...
The Stickiness of Parkinson’s Proteins
You have probably seen the muscle tremors that affect Parkinson’s patients. Parkinson’s is a disease that kills dopamine-producing neurons in the brain. While...
Concussion Background and Visual Imaging
In the good old days as some people would call it, if you get hit in football or any sport and you were knocked out it was almost seen as a sign of weakness. N...