Obesity and Diabetes: Understanding the Link
Obesity is obviously a growing epidemic throughout many countries including America. There is rarely a day that goes by where I do not hear some mention to obes...
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Beethoven Without Bipolar: The Cost of Creativity
This week’s discussion topic was on bipolar disorder. So far we have only focused on the negative effects of bipolar disorder and finding ways to treat it. I a...
Bipolar Disorder: We Need A Pokeflute
Bipolar disorder is one of the most well known neurological disorders, characterized by alternating states of prolonged depression or manic states (the term is ...
Working Backwards…
Bipolar disorder is a psychological disease characterized by extreme mood change. The highest point, termed mania, is a period of extremely good mood and impuls...
Over Medicated and Undiagnosed
This week our topic focused around bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is characterized by continual changes in mood that last over a long period of time. Thes...
"Delayed Concussions"
I was a football student manager from 6th grade until I graduated high school so I saw my fair share of concussions but what I had never seen was a delayed conc...
What happens when you get knocked on the head?
One of the most current and serious health issues today is concussion. You hear about it everywhere from the 4th grade football game to the scene of a fender be...
Magnesium and Other Treatments for Speedy Concussion Recovery?
Contact sports, falls, car accident, etc. can all lead to concussions. But what exactly is a concussion? Concussions are defined as a traumatic brain injury, o...
Tough Questions with Science: All the small things.
This week’s assignment is to explain why the public should care. Specifically, why they should care about the article we read which covers Alzheimer’...
How far down does the PD rabbit hole go?
Most people know what Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is and for those that don’t know, the blogs below that were written by my fellow students all give a ...