Pregnancy and Autism: Can I Prevent My Child From Developing Autism?
Why the panic? Autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are becoming more prevalent as the years continue to pass, with about 1 in 68 children diagnosed with ...
Tag: Neurochemistry
Prescription Exercise: Using Exercise to Combat Anxiety
Anxiety As humans, it is important that we are able to make memories of events in our lives to be able to survive. In the case of anxiety, particularly strong m...
Calling All Parents: Your Role in Reducing Anxiety
Being a parent is one of the most influential roles you can hold in our society, but it is also proving to be one of the most difficult. These days, the books a...
Scare Tactics or Science Talk: Different Approaches to Drug Education
My Drug Education Experience I have always operated under the motto of “Drugs are bad”. But it wasn’t until a recent paper discussion in neuro...
Addicted and Trapped
Just This Once Think back to those college days of little responsibility and too much fun. Some of us were so caught up with our desire to “fit in” and be “cool...
Concordia’s Cap
Neurochemistry certainly blew my mind about the mind. I never knew much about how the brain works, but this class helped to fill in some of the mysterious blank...
Neurochemistry: The Cherry on Top of My Concordia Experience
I would like to formally thank the people that pushed me towards taking Neurochemistry as my capstone experience to be the cherry on top of my entire Concordia ...
Autism Is More Than Genes
Diseases like type 1 diabetes and sickle-cell anemia happen through a defect in a single gene. Sometimes all it takes is one wrong letter in the genetic code t...
Being Happy With Alzheimer’s
My grandmother had Alzheimer’s disease for as long as I remember being around her—we lived overseas so I really only saw her for two months out of the year (so ...
Overprescribed and Undermedicated
A recent segment from the liberal-leaning news source Vox was titled “Do I have ADHD?”. A female in her twenties believed she indeed had the disorder, but had n...