Scooby-Doo and the Medical Marijuana Mystery
Before I break down the mechanisms behind medical marijuana, I would like to emphasize that I am not affiliating my favorite childhood T.V. show with marijuana ...
Tag: Neurochemistry
ALS – We Need to Care
I’m sure that in the past few months your news feed has been flooded with the Ice Bucket Challenge. It probably even got to the point where you couldn’t stand ...
Behind the Bucket: A mechanism behind ALS appears to be too much of a good thing
Before the ALS awareness social media frenzy, the term “ice bucket challenge” meant nothing more to me than the 5+ month reality of living in Minnesota, also kn...
Capstone: an unexpected surprise
I really didn’t know what to expect out of this semester. I needed a class that counted both as a capstone, as well as an elective for my major, and I settled ...
Liberal Arts, the Brain, and My Capstone Experience
One of the biggest reasons I chose Concordia College was the fact that it is a liberal arts college. Contrary to my stepdad’s belief that a liberal arts college...
A Reflection on my Capstone Experience
Throughout my three and a half years at Concordia College, one aspect I have really enjoyed is the liberal learning that students are required to experience. Be...
A Connection from Type 2 Diabetes to Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is well known neurodegenerative disorder that affects many people all over the world. Popular media and modern science has made it clear tha...
Akt/GSK3 Pathway: Quick and Dirty Version
Let’s be honest…after a week of dissecting the article “Beyond cAMP: the regulation of Akt and GSK3 by dopamine receptors,” I barely understand any of it....
Capstone? What's a capstone?
At the start of the semester, other than knowing I had to take a capstone course in order to get my degree, I had absolutely no idea what I was getting myself i...
Is the complex world we live in a possible cause of the rising cases of autism?
Our final neurochemistry topic of the semester focused on the developmental disorder known as autism. Autism is a very interesting topic because its cause can ...