Issue 22 Don't Forget Your Fats If you’ve gone grocery shopping recently, you’ve likely come across the word “keto-friendly” labeled on many foods. These foods are all marketed as low-carbohydrate and accompany the ketogenic diet (KD).
Issue 21 An Area of Exception: Is the Brain Immune-privileged? In the human body, the immune system plays a crucial role in protecting us from foreign substances. For example, when you contract the flu, the immune system is responsible for fighting against the virus and keeping you healthy.
Issue 21 Alzheimer's Environmental Factors The denizens of modern-day, developed countries have living standards that have not been available ever before in human history: a permanent food surplus, technologies that were unthinkable just decades ago, and healthcare that allows us to live for more than a hundred years.
Issue 21 Nutritional Therapy for Fibromyalgia Most people are familiar with the concept of eating better to feel better. You are what you eat after all. This takes on new meaning when considering the integral connection of gut health and brain health. What you eat affects your gut health, which affects your brain function.
Issue 21 Awake Under the Knife: Conscious Brain Surgery Imagine, for a moment, that you are undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumor. While the surgeons operate on you, you remain deeply sedated and unconscious -- but before they finish, you begin to wake up.
Issue 20 Return of the Retina Vision is a sensory system that we rely on heavily, and yet many people face visual impairments. The National Eye Institute recently reported that there were over 4 million people with visual impairments in the United States, mostly due to disease.
Issue 20 Just Dance, It'll be Okay It starts with the hand lift – the body moves with the melody while the mind thinks about a feeling that has yet to be worked and the lungs breathe as they travel through space. Calmness, happiness, release.
Issue 19 Holy Molly: Treating PTSD with MDMA Our ever-changing socio-political landscape creates many feelings of uneasiness, and individual experiences of war, terrorism, or sexual abuse only corroborate these feelings.
Issue 19 Decoding Neuroblastoma Late stage neuroblastoma is one of the most difficult childhood cancers to handle because of its poorly understood genetic markers, erratic tumor growth, and difficulty to remove. The primary treatment
Issue 19 Getting a Grip on Dystonia Hold out your hand, make a fist, and squeeze as hard as you can. If you squeeze long enough, you’ll experience some pain. This is a pain that individuals
Issue 16 Treating Pediatric Chronic Pain A painful feeling starts in your fingertips and spreads through your hand, radiating up your arm until it reaches your brain, prompting an “Ouch!” Pain is most commonly defined as
Issue 16 Eye Opening Epilepsy Epilepsies include a variety of disorders, characterized primarily by a disturbance in neuronal activity known as a seizure.
Issue 16 Changing Focus: ADHD in Women Picture a twelve-year-old girl. She’s always losing her homework. Whenever she starts a project she ends up with a half-cleaned room, an almost-done math assignment, only the first part
Issue 15 Motor Conversion Disorder Motor conversion disorder is a subset of conversion disorder, which is one of the most common psychiatric diagnoses in neurology; it accounts for at least four percent of all general
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 Computing a Better Diagnosis In the early 20th century, the primary purpose for mental disorder classification was to organize asylums.{[1] The process for categorizing symptoms lacked standardization and thus was inconsistent. Even so,
Issue 15 Biomaterial Scaffolds Spinal cord injury (SCI) occurs at an estimated global incidence rate of 250,000 to 500,000 every year, with causes such as car collisions, falls, and violence [1]. Currently,
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 The Blood Brain Barrier Baffles Big Pharma Despite there being a large unmet need for treatments in neurological disorders, big pharma is beginning to withdraw from drug development due to the challenge of crossing the blood-brain barrier,
Issue 14 Understanding Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder that can begin in late adolescence and early adulthood with an array of severe symptoms, including hallucinations and delusions. When left untreated, these symptoms
Issue 14 Speak Your Mind Inner speech, also known as verbal thinking or inner voice, is a common daily experience believed to be significant in the retention of short-term memory, development, self-awareness, and cognitive thought.
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 Rewiring the Spinal Cord The largest concern for patients and physicians regarding traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCIs) is the severity of irreversible damage. Spinal cord injuries do not heal in the same way as
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
