Autism and Autism Research On the Rise
In the past decade the prevalence of autism has approximately doubled in diagnoses for children. In 2006, 1 in 110 children were diagnosed in the United States,...
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Breaking down Autism
Introduction to Autism Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of various developmental disabilities defined by impaired social interaction and communication,...
Obesity and the Brain
Hypothalamus It has been recently discovered that unlike inflammation in the in the peripheral tissues, inflammation in the brain due to high fat intake occurs ...
What Came First: Obesity or the Brain Disease?
As we all know, obesity is a danger to this country but it may be in more ways than one. There are the physical dangers that come with obesity that are pretty w...
Obesity as a Brain Disease – A Public Wakeup Call
It’s a weird thought – an obese person being at the mercy of his or her brain – but recent research suggests this may be the case. According to a study done by ...
Obesity: Social Issue or Brain Disease?
Defined as the excessive amount of body fat, obesity has historically been described as a physiological disease. However, recent research has challenged this cl...
Nicotine in the Brain: Will E-Cigs be able to Solve the Problem of Smoking?
As we are all aware, smoking has some pretty severe possible side effects that result in physical changes inside and outside your body that could potentially ca...
A Martini A Day Keeps the Doctor Away?
This past week in Neurochemistry class focused on Alcohol and Nicotine. We learned about how the effects of both drugs are more related on a chemical level tha...
Cheers to Ethanol and Nicotine is the Devil: Why We Need to Take a Second Look at the Glories of Ethanol
Everyone knows the horrors of cigarettes. We’ve all seen the commercials of the premature aging, the inevitable lung cancer, the life draining chemicals that co...
Why Nicotine is so Hard to Quit
The amount of people smoking cigarettes in the United States has been on the decline since it was first recorded in 1965, and is continuing to decline. This is ...