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 Reflecting on Mirror Neurons On the lush savannah stand a herd of gazelles, grazing. Behind them, men prowl, registering one another’s actions in order to work together and formulate a plan to split their spoils.
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 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 The Floating Brain: Neuroscience of Microgravity Anyone who has ever flown across the world is aware of the exhausting journey that a 12-hour flight can hold, from headaches due to the engine’s grueling background noise
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 13 Feeding Behavior Within the human body, many conditions need to be kept within a physiologically optimal range for the system to function properly. This is highly important at the cellular and subcellular
Issue 13 Dive Into the Mind of an Octopus Humans are intelligent beings capable of complex cognitive feats such as self-awareness. There are many existing and emerging theories proposing different explanations for this exceptional intelligence. A common strategy for
Issue 13 The Mosaic Brain Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed the stunning level of diversity in the human brain: virtually every neuron is genetically unique due to hundreds of mutations present in each cell
Issue 13 Open Your Mind: Understanding Implicit Bias Although society has progressed toward equality, discrimination continues to play a role in the daily lives of minorities. At the time of the last census, non-white minorities comprised about one-fourth
