Anxiety-induced memory formation and current research
Introduction: Anxiety can be characterized by feelings of nervousness, fear, and stress. Having some anxiety in everyday life is normal and can be positive, but...
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Western Society’s Toxic Role on Hallucinogens
Hallucinogens have been a controversial recreational drug type that has “plagued” Western nations for decades. However, hallucinogens have shown to have innumer...
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...
Can We Cure It All?
A lot of medications that we have heard of today that are designed to make diseases more livable don’t actually treat the source of the problem. More often than...
Autism and Autism Research On the Rise
In the past decade the prevalence of autism has approximately doubled in diagnoses for children. In 2006, 1 in 110 children were diagnosed in the United States,...
The Vicious Cycle of Obesity
America has a problem Obesity rates are on the rise in America. Obesity is currently the second leading cause of preventable death in the US behind tobacco use....
Behind Schizophrenia: Research and Understanding
This past week, the Concordia Neurochemistry Class talked about the neurology behind Schizophrenia, which is a long-term, developmental mental disorder that inv...
Why Endocannabinoids are the New Frontier
The stigma and restrictions surrounding the medicinal uses of endocannabinoids need to be lifted. Regardless of the conversation about legalizing endocannabinoi...
5 Reasons to Legalize
Marijuana, originally used as an anesthetic in traditional Chinese medicine, is a psychotropic, euphoric drug that has been a controversial topic in modern Unit...
Type 3 Diabetes? The Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder diagnosed today. For a long time it was unclear as to the cause of AD, and t...