Laying the Capstone to My College Experience
It’s December and the semester in Neurochemistry has come to an end, and it has been a class that has taught me so much not only about different topics such as ...
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Autism in a Nutshell
It was not until last year when I heard a student give a presentation on autism that I realized how complicated and broad the disorder was. Autism Spectrum Diso...
Obese Brains
Ohhhhhhhhh obesity…such a big topic in the world we live in right now. It is usually discussed within the context of food and how people in our country ...
Lithium does things?
What do you think of when you first hear the word lithium? To be perfectly honest, before I read this article on lithium, the most that popped into my h...
Drink your tea and watch your Iron
This topic has to do with Parkinson’s disease but you should still read this even if you do not care about Parkinson’s. Why you may ask? Well, you see ...
What if I told you Diabetes will increase your risk of Alzheimer Disease?
Type 2 diabetes is a prevalent disease in America where the body has too much glucose in the blood system. Many adults suffer from this and it results i...
Marijuana and Endocannabinoids: More Research Needed
Cannabis sativa, more commonly called marijuana, and its use has long been a hotly debated topic all over the world. For the most part, the public has been igno...
New and Valuable Experiences Learned Through a Capstone Course
There are many different courses that are we are required to as students at Concordia College. There are exploration courses, perspective courses, and religion...
Capstone: not what I thought, but what I wanted…
Before taking my capstone course at Concordia, I definitely had a bias towards any course that carried the “capstone” tag. The sound of the word itself had alwa...
Breaking the Circle of Obesity
According to the CDC, more than one third of adults in the United States are obese. That means the annual cost of obesity in the U.S. is about 147 billion dolla...