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This semester has been full of information that would make most people’s heads spin! Some of the material could be so dense at times that reading it three times and going through the words with a dictionary sometimes still didn’t give you a specific answer. This makes the course frustrating because you want to...
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Some people don’t consider alcohol a drug because it doesn’t give a person the same symptoms as say cocaine or heroin would. But this is not the case. Alcohol is as much a drug as any other because it causes impairments and can be highly addictive just like actual drugs. Just because alcohol is...
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You could say I am lucky enough to have the experience of two capstones for my undergraduate degree. Officially as a chemistry education major student teaching is my capstone, but neurochemistry sounded so good I couldn’t pass it up. It is nice to have student teaching count as a capstone for teachers because our majors are...
Continue Reading »One of the articles we read had the main topic of autism and the environmental and genetic factors that can cause it. In the article it talks about the redox/methylation hypothesis and how it leads to the development of autism. The hypothesis states that genetic factors and environmental factors bot lead to impaired sulfur...
Continue Reading »One of the articles we focused on was a review on the signaling caused by ethanol (commonly known as alcohol). Ethanol has various cellular effects that result in dependence, preference, and seeking behaviors. One of the main pathways is where ethanol stimulates the synthesis of the second messenger cAMP through activating the enzyme adenylyl...
Continue Reading »Neurochemistry was a unique science course, different from any of my other courses throughout my college career. We read articles, focusing on understanding them, and then discussing the scientific concepts along with how they pertain to everyday life. The latter aspect is one of the most important lessons I took away from the semester....
Continue Reading »Head injuries are becoming an increasing concern, especially with contact sports. Successive concussions without treatment are also an issue. Concussive force to the head can be caused by a variety of biomechanical forces including impact between brain and skull due to angular or straight force on head, traction on brainstem neurons due to forceful...
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Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder that has increased in number of cases, from 3 in 10,000 in 1970 to 66 in 10,000 in 2002. Genetic factors alone cannot compensate for the level of increase in autism, so there must be some environmental effect. Or perhaps diagnoses for autism has changed. Whatever the cause...
Continue Reading »Bipolar disorder (BD) is a mental disorder characterized by changes in mood. BD I has cycles of mania and depression while BD II has cycles of hypomania and depression. In general, the mania cycles are treated with mood stabilizers medication. Antidepressants tend to induce the manic cycles. Based on the effects of treatments like...
Continue Reading »Autism is a disease that has affected families around the world and has become an ever-growing problem in the United States. Autism is known as a complex, developmental disability linked to abnormal biology and chemistry in the brain. Experts believe that Autism presents itself during the first three years of a person’s life. The...
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