As an individual that has had the opportunity to shovel a variety of antidepressants into my system throughout my twenty-two years of life, I have become quite accustomed to the positive and negative effects that each drug has had on my psychological functioning. My most recent relationship was with...

Recent evidence has shown that after an injury, neuronal circuits can be reorganized by the growth of neuronal processes, forming new synapses to replace the ones that were lost due to injury. But how is this neuronal plasticity achieved? Growth factors called neurotropins are believed to be...

When first glancing at the image below, the direction the dancer is spinning will seem obvious. However, due to the different processes handled by the left and right hemispheres of the brain, perception of the spin's direction is interpreted differently by each of us. For example, I see the image...