Insulin: A Sometimes Under Appreciated Key Player in the Brain
As a relatively healthy person, insulin is something that I rarely consider, I do not consider how my intake of sugar may affect my body, I also do not consider...
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Parkinsons Disease: More Than Just Meets The Eye
Parkinsons disease is a disease that is often associated with people who have motor problems as far as trouble walking around, shaking, rigidity, and slowness. ...
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that does not impact mental faculties, but instead destroys motor neurons over a period of years/decades. Ul...
Mental Decline-A Societal Problem
Modern medicine is nothing short of a miracle. If you take a moment to stop and appreciate just how good we have become at not dying it is pretty mind blowing. ...
Type 3 Diabetes? The Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder diagnosed today. For a long time it was unclear as to the cause of AD, and t...
Alzheimer’s linked to Diabetes
The topic in our Neurochemistry class this past week was Alzheimer’s Disease and how it is linked to Type II Diabetes Mellitus, T2DM. The science behind this li...
Is it time to forget about finding a “cure” for Alzheimer’s disease?
In the last few years I’ve watched my grandmother sink into the mysterious depths of her Alzheimer’s disease. However, as she approaches 90 years old it is not ...
ALS: What’s the best approach when the answer is not in your genes?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS is better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease and is a neurodegenerative disease that appears during midlife of an adult. It resu...
Insulin: impacting more than just diabetes
Those impacted by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has reached an alarming number of 5 million individuals as of 2015 in the United States alone. AD has no cure, which ...
Alzheimers Disease: When Decisions Can't Be Made
Alzheimers disease (AD) is a disease that is very prevalent in the present day. Many people know Alzheimers disease due to its effect on causing people to forge...