Capping Off the Concordia Experience
Initially coming to Concordia, I had no idea what to expect. The institution said that it would “instill a love of education” and at the time, all I...
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A Different Kind of Learning: Neurochemistry at Concordia
I am a senior at Concordia College in Moorhead, and I am just finishing up my approximately 30th college class at Concordia. I can honestly say this class was d...
Autism: What it is and Why it Happens
The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurological disorder that is often characterized by impairments in communication, inappropriate social behavior, and re...
Finding yourself: A Neurochemistry Capstone Experience
Upon registering for this class, I had a hard time grasping I had just registered for Neurochemistry. At the end of spring semester 2015, I attended a meeting f...
Neurochemistry Capstone Overview
That’s me at a neuroscience conference reporting on a year + of undergraduate research under Dr. Askvig at Concordia College. My fiance, Mitchell, is nex...
The Role of Synaptic Pruning in Autism
What is Autism? Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, verbal and non-verbal communication, and restricted and re...
How Stress Can Lead to Obesity
We’ve all heard that stress can lead to weight gain, but how does it really do that? Chronic stress causes many harmful cycles that can lead to this excess weig...
The Role of Nitric Oxide in Alzheimer's Disease
To be honest, I did not know much about Nitric Oxide (NO) before reading the scientific paper on the topic for our neurochemistry class. All I could have told ...
A Promising Outlook to a Devastating Disease: Lewy Body Dementia
What is Lewy Body Dementia? Lewy body dementia is characterized by abnormal protein deposits that aggregate in the brain. When Lewy body proteins aggregate, th...
Neurochemistry: what I know for certain
I am going to come clean. I have no idea what is going on in the human brain. I know I have been shouting out into the black hole that is the internet about it ...