Your Brain on Fat: Why Hypothalamic Inflammation Matters
Most of us know that a high-fat, high-sugar diet can lead to weight gain. Many people are aware of how obesity is linked to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and ...
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Stress Leaves a Mark – Literally: Why the Way We Remember Trauma Matters
We all experience stress. And we all remember those moments when life seemed overwhelming—finals week, heartbreak, a fender bender, or worse. These memories sha...
Medicating Addiction
What is Addiction Addiction is a chronic dependence on a substance. The condition involves compulsive seeking and persistent use despite the negative contributi...
It’s Not “Mental Illness” It’s Brain Health
“Mental Illness” Mental illness is often a scary phrase. It’s thought of in association with the words “disorder,” “sick,” or even worse, “crazy.” People often ...
The Ubiquitin-Proteasome System: A Key Player In Brain Health and Disease
Figure 1 [1] Your brain is like a smartphone, dropping it, similar to a traumatic brain injury (TBI). It may look fine on the outside, but on the inside, the te...
TBI: An Ecosystem in Crisis
The brain is home to a multitude of different cell types that each occupy their own niche. Some of these cells are neurons, which relay information across the b...
Football: The Epidemic Hidden Beneath the Helmet
You dive for the ball, just barely have it in your hands, when you collide head-first with the player from the other team! You pick yourself up off the ground, ...
Glioblastoma; A Case Study of Converging and Complex Cell Signaling Pathways
Glioblastoma is a type of brain tumor; glio means ‘from glial cells’ which are cells that support neuronal cells in the brain, and blastoma means ‘a form of tum...
Endocannabinoid System: Marijuana as Treatment for Disease?
Endocannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system are a fairly recent area of study in the science world. When one just looks at the word “endocannabinoid,” proba...
Metabolic Syndrome: The disease you may not know is there
Is Metabolic Syndrome the same as Obesity? Metabolic syndrome is defined as a cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing your risk of heart disease...