Neuroscience Stay Woke: Caffeine and Parkinson’s The adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” has possibly become a reality in the form of the most popularly consumed psychoactive drug, caffeine, in relation to Parkinson’
Neuroscience Melody and Memory: The Potential of Music Therapy for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease As modern medicine advances, the average life expectancy has been increasing, leading to the discovery of a plethora of diseases in the newest generation of the longest-living humans. Among these diseases is dementia.
Issue 17 Weeding Out Misconceptions: Neurological Effects of Marijuana Due to marijuana’s supposed low addiction potential, a perceived lack of long-term irreversible side effects, and various social dynamics normalizing it after the War on Drugs changed to a
Issue 17 Saturday Night Football, Losing More Than A Game Across the country, the lights are warming up for college game night. One freshman is getting his first starting spot as kick-returner. Looking over the crowded stadium, he sees his
Issue 17 A Gut Feeling Bacteria have a historically well-deserved bad rap. After all, they make us sick and spoil our food. Therefore, a natural reaction to hearing that around a hundred trillion bacteria inhabit
Issue 17 Taken In Context It is freshman year and you stand in the middle of a crowded Chi Upsilon Eta fraternity party. Music is pounding in your ears and drunken yells fill the air.
Issue 17 The Neuroaesthetics of Dance Neuroaesthetics—an emerging discipline of neuroscience—focuses on the biological bases of aesthetic experiences. One branch of neuroaesthetics focuses on the neurological processes that occur while participating in dance, whether
Featured Article Mind Your Language One of the most fundamental things separating humans from all other species on Earth is our ability to use language. While other living things may be able to communicate brief
Featured Article Code of Conduct: Bayesian Predictive Coding To correctly interpret sensory data, the brain is faced with solving an inverse problem: one where the causes need to be inferred from the perceived outcomes [1]. There are many
Featured Article Mind and Matter It is impossible to ignore the association that exists in the modern era between meditation and the calming of one’s mind and emotions––the image of a lackadaisical hippie
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 Stand Up For Your Brain To sit or to stand—a debate many rarely think about due to the prominence of sedentary lifestyles. Many of our daily activities involve sitting, such as being in front of a computer for hours or attending lectures.
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 16 Express Before You Test Anyone who has written an essay for a class knows that writing is a difficult yet necessary task. From grocery lists to PhD dissertations, writing is a vital method 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 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 Neural Oscillations With the new millennium, interconnectivity has undoubtedly become an integral part of society; and with it, the need to learn new information with ease and grace. Traditionally, this has meant
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 Insomnia: Why Students Are Sleeping in Class It’s no secret that college students struggle to get sleep. Between juggling midterms, homework, and 8:30 a.m. classes, it isn’t just a stereotype that students are
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 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 14 Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation One of the most clinically promising treatments for a wide array of neurological conditions is deep brain stimulation (DBS). As its name suggests, this treatment involves the electrical stimulation of
