What is NO, and is it harmful?
Nitric oxide, NO, is a free radical that consists of one nitrogen and one oxygen bound together via a double bond. It is called a free radical because it has an...
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Obesity: How it Happens
Obesity is often a very difficult topic. So many Americans are getting diagnosed with obesity every day. Some people may want to simply say it is their own faul...
Parkinson’s Disease: More Than Just Tremors
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. It effects about 3 in 1000 people in industrialized nations. Alt...
ALS: More is still to come…
This week in NeuroChem we discussed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, which is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes de...
But I Really Love Pizza.
As your typical “Type A” college student, I am running through each day of my life at a million miles an hour. I complain about little things like l...
Current Progress in ALS Research
The body is the vessel through and by which we experience the world. To be unable to interact with it physically while being mentally aware is arguably the scar...
Mystery and Motivation
Lithium has been used to treat bipolar disorder for nearly half a century now, even though lithium’s therapeutic mechanism has remained an enigma. No one is ab...
Rethinking reasons for weight loss: Alzheimer’s and type II diabetes
I don’t mean to harp on body image and societal pressures too much. I know that this was my topic last week, but our article this week begs me to write a second...
Is Alzheimer's Disease really "Type 3" Diabetes?
A rising health concern throughout the world is diabetes. The number of people diagnosed with diabetes in 1985, around 30 million, increased nearly ten fold to ...