Liberal Learning at its Finest
Wow, it is hard to believe that it is already the end of fall semester senior year. Where did the time go? Well that means it is time to reflect on my “capstone...
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Concussions
When I was 15 my sister had an accident while sledding and suffered a concussion. Visiting her in the hospital was a rather surreal experience, with her failing...
Iron on the brain
Continuing a trend of unlikely players, the paper “Targeting dysregulation of brain iron homeostasis in Parkinsons’ disease by iron chelators” tells us the stor...
Adding Injury to Injury: Diabetes can make you more prone to Alzheimer’s?
Like I expect most people would, I used to think that insulin was just something for diabetes. As a biology major I suppose I knew that it regulates how your bo...
Dopamine: For more than just the good times
Dopamine is one of the few neurotransmitters that most people have probably heard of. It’s the ‘reward chemical’, the one that makes us feel good when we reach ...
My Capstone Experience.
In all honesty, before this class started I was secretly a little terrified for it. Now, that doesn’t mean I wasn’t excited about it too–I knew basically ...
My Neurochem Experience
When I first signed up for Neurochemistry I really had no idea what the class was going to be like. At first I assumed it was going to be somewhat similar to th...
The Capstone is laid, the mortar has set
At our school, Concordia College, everyone is required to take a capstone course before they graduate. It does not necessarily have to be in your own fi...
Terrible ALS
Amylotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease is a disease of the central nervous system. It is a nasty progression of neurod...
Autism Explored
You might have met someone with autism before. Maybe they were in your family or at school. If so, then you probably noticed the signs of autism. Thei...