Issue 21 Nootropics: How Online Communities Foster Misinformation and Pseudoscience On a sunny July day in Paris, 189 cyclists breathe a sigh of relief. Some are celebrating, some are disappointed, and some are just grateful that they can get some rest.
Issue 22 Lean, Mean, Psychoactive Machine We Have Lean On the Beat Over the last thirty years, hip-hop music has risen from its humble beginnings in inner-city neighborhoods to the center of the mainstream music stage.
Issue 20 How a Signal is AMPA'fied Find out the role of the NMDA-AMPA receptor system in our ability to associate the occurrence of two events, allowing our brains to learn and form memories.
Issue 20 Old Brain, New Tricks With the increase in computer performance and accessibility of personal computing, most jobs require computer skills as part of their work.
Issue 20 Treating Glioblastoma Getting a cancer diagnosis is a life-altering event, but few diagnoses are as grim as being told you have a glioblastoma. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a very aggressive form of
Cover Article With a Grain of Salt: The MSG “Menace” “No MSG”—two simple words plastered across food packaging and restaurant windows have consumers feeling relieved. MSG has long been criticized by consumers; some charge it as guilty for causing
Issue 15 FOXO Transcription Factors and Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are tragic conditions that cause the loss of memory and motor control. As these diseases progress, patients eventually forget everything, including
Issue 15 Bug Off: The Neural Effects of Insecticides The first thing that comes to mind when people think of insects is probably not their tiny brains. However, scientists have been studying and taking advantage of the relatively simple
Issue 15 Medical Mushrooms: Psylocibin-Assisted Therapy Psychedelics face an overwhelming stigma in Western culture that has limited scientific investigation into their uses since the 1960s. This came as a result of a lack of knowledge that
Issue 14 The Gendered Effects of Neurotoxicants For the past several decades, the number of cases of mental and neurodevelopmental disorders has been steadily increasing.
Issue 14 A New Approach to Huntington’s Among inherited neurodegenerative disorders, Huntington’s Disease (HD) is the most common. [1] HD is a grim diagnosis, for the disease not only takes lives but also leaves the descendants
Issue 14 Up and Running While not everyone participates in endurance sports, anyone can reap the benefits of exercise. A variety of studies show that participation in both aerobic and non-aerobic exercise for as little
Issue 13 Estrogen & Multiple Sclerosis In a case study by researchers at the Royal Free Hospital in London, a 26-year-old man was hospitalized due to a sudden onset of weakness and fatigue on the right
Issue 13 How Alzheimer’s Spreads An estimated 5.5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) [1]. In 2014, AD claimed around 100,000 lives, and this number is only expected to grow [1]
Issue 13 Puppy Love: The Role of Oxytocin in Human-Animal Relationships With the weight of exams, papers, and deadlines on students’ shoulders, it’s not unusual for colleges and universities to promote programs that assist students in managing their stress levels.
Issue 13 Fetal Effects of Opioid Abuse According to the New York Times, the opioid epidemic is the deadliest drug crisis in America, and drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans [1]. Opioids are
Issue 12 Dravet Syndrome: A Model for Autism and Epilepsy Autism and epilepsy affect millions of people worldwide and have a profound impact on the lives of patients as well as their friends and family. These disorders are challenging to
Issue 12 Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier Over a century ago, Paul Ehrlich injected blue dye into the bloodstream of mice to view their biological structures. After dissecting the mice, he was surprised to find that all
Issue 12 Walking Away from Parkinson’s Transporting ourselves from one place to another can seem rather simple to the majority of individuals. We whiz from one class to the next without much conscious regard for our
Issue 11 Rest Assured Sleep sets people back. Every night, people stop and doze off; they don’t eat, work, or learn. Evolutionarily, it should be a recessive trait—after all, non-sleepers could get
Issue 11 Ketamine: A Novel Treatment For Major Depression Finding New Ways of Thinking About Depression Within the last decade, a new agent has appeared in the spotlight of psychiatric research: ketamine. This drug, also known as “Calypsol,” is
Issue 10 Digest This: How Gut Bacteria Affects the Brain In recent years, the scientific community has increasingly been going with its gut. That is to say, scientists have been looking to the human gastrointestinal microbiota for its role in
Issue 10 Depression Every day, millions of students experience the feeling of almost indescribable emptiness caused by major depression, also known as major depressive disorder or simply depression...
Issue 9 Astrocytes and Epilepsy In the 1800s, neuroscientist Ramon y Cajal researched the cellular composition of the brain, leading to an idea known as the “neuron doctrine.” In essence, it is the idea that
Issue 9 Food for Thought There’s a problem in our society of which most people are blissfully unaware: we aren’t feeding our brains. One of the most important nutrients for proper brain development
