The Making of a Psychopath
What is a psychopath? Most likely when you think of a psychopath, you probably think of a person like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy. Although t...
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Let’s Talk about Brain Cancer
What is Glioblastoma? In short, glioblastoma (GBM) is brain cancer. More specifically, it is a very lethal brain tumor, sometimes becoming invasive to other par...
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 ...
So You Did the Ice Bucket Challenge, Now What?
Along with 2.4 million other people, I shared a video of myself doing the ALS ice bucket challenge on Facebook in the summer of 2014. I excitedly watched ice bu...
Schizophrenia: A New Possible Target for Drug Development
Mental illness can be quite a burden for anyone affected by one of its many forms. Come mental health diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depr...
Is Deep Brain Stimulation the New Face for Parkinson's?
In the United States, more than 200,000 people are affected each year from Parkinson’s disease. As much of the general public knows, this disease is a debilitat...
A Different Kind of Learning: Neurochemistry at Concordia
I am a senior at Concordia College in Moorhead, and I am just finishing up my approximately 30th college class at Concordia. I can honestly say this class was d...
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...
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...