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...
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Obesity: The Mother's Fault?
It has been proposed that obesity is a disease of the brain. The article we read for class revealed that there are substantial effects on the brain that qualifi...
Should Parkinson's Be a Priority?
Parkinson’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects both motor and non-motor systems in the body, which is characterized by the death of neurons in ...
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...
Heritability of ALS
What is ALS? Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the motor neurons in the brain and the spinal cord. As ...
Basics of Endocannabinoids and the Developing Brain
As our country slowly shifts its stigma on marijuana, there are many issues that need to be discussed. Some of these issues include its medicinal properties, if...