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 ...
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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 ...
Behind Schizophrenia: Research and Understanding
This past week, the Concordia Neurochemistry Class talked about the neurology behind Schizophrenia, which is a long-term, developmental mental disorder that inv...
Let's Talk About Schizophrenia
The Treatment Advocacy Center states that 1.1% of the world population is affected by schizophrenia and it is estimated that 40% of people with schizophrenia go...
Schizophrenia and Brain Development
Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects a range of factors in a person, including how he or she thinks, feels, and behaves. Positive ...
The Major Concerns of Bulimia Nervosa
Body image is a topic that many adolescent girls and boys struggle with in the modern society. Wherever you go, there are unrealistic and hurtful images posted ...