When Can it be Safe to Say a Concussion is Healed?
Concussions are growing in the public eye; there is new research, new worries and discoveries about how much about concussions has been ignored in the past, or ...
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"More than just a game"
Concussions are not something to think lesser of than any other physical or mental impairment. After all, concussions can be damaging to the point where they le...
Concussions: Do we really know enough?
This week in neurochemistry, we talked about the topic of concussions. I had not known a lot about concussions before the week, but I knew that it was caused by...
New posts coming soon!
The 2015 Neurochemistry class is about to start blogging! Topics covered this semester will be autism, endocannbinoids, Alzheimer’s Disease, nitric oxide,...
Capstone Reflection
When I tell people that I study biology and neuroscience, I am frequently asked if I want to be a brain surgeon or something else involving treating people with...
The End is Just the Beginning
Going into the class without being a neurochemistry minor or even a chemistry major for that matter, I felt as if I was blindly walking into a course which woul...
The End That Shows We’re Really Only at the Beginning
When I first signed up for Neurochemistry last spring, I simply took it because it was hitting two birds with one stone. I could use it as my elective course fo...
The Value of a Capstone
Capstone classes are all designed to be just that, a capstone. They are supposed to take what you have learned in four years of lectures, tests, and study group...
Capping it off – 4 months to sum up 4 years
Where do I begin? Last spring when I was registering for classes, I somehow had in my mind that I needed to take this class. That for some reason, this class ...
Neurochemsitry in Review
Neurochemistry – it sounds like a lot to wrap your brain around (see what I did there), and it is. I guess I could say I had no idea what to expect for t...