Alzheimer's Disease: A Disease Worth the Research
There is no getting around it – Alzheimer’s Disease is devastating. It affects the lives of not only those afflicted, but also their families and friends. And i...
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Could Diabetes lead to Alzheimer's Disease?
In the world of medicine, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) a hot topic in the recent decades. With it affecting over 90,000 Americans annually, the prevalence of ...
Alzheimer's and Diabetes: The Link We've Been Missing
Until recently the brain was thought to be a insulin-insensitive organ. It has been discovered that there are various actions of insulin in the brain. Insulin a...
The Rise of a New Era?
Will the older generations begin to look different with the rise in type II diabetes? Recently more and more studies have been shown to prove that having type I...
Diabetes and Alzheimer’s: Eating Healthy Results in More Than Just Weight Loss
In Neurochemistry class, we talked about Alzheimer’s Disease, which is one of the most detrimental disorders that someone can experience. We talked about how t...
Alzheimer's disease and insulin resistance
Research into the molecular nature of Alzheimer’s Disease has been a major focus the past 20 years, with (AD) claiming about 90,000 Americans annually. With gen...
Parkinson's Disease: Finding the Balance
Merriam webster’s dictionary defines Parkinson’s disease as “a chronic progressive neurological disease chiefly of later life that is linked to decreased dopami...
The Imbalance of Parkinson's Disease
Commonly seen in people over the age of forty, approximately 60,000 United States citizens are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease every year. The magnitud...
Stem Cells and Parkinson's Disease
Stem Cell Research has been the on the cutting edge of science, and become extremely useful for many neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s Disease. Parkin...
The Parkinson's Brain
This week in Neurochemistry class, we talked about one of the many mysterious neurodegenerative disorders; Parkinson’s Disease. I like to think of the brain as ...