Neurochemistry: A Capstone Reflection
Neurochemistry, or neurochem as we like to call it, has been single handedly the most interesting class I have ever taken. Neurochem has spiked my interest in n...
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What causes Autism?
Autism had dramatically grown in the past fifty years. The US documented that 19 out of 10,000 individuals had autism in 1992. This rose to 1 in 150 in 2002, fo...
Oxytocin is More than Just a Love Hormone: Could it be the Future for ASD?
It isn’t really possible to narrow autism down to one specific difference or symptom, really it is a combination of many different things. Every single case is ...
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,...
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...