Heather Villarreal Introduction. Zika virus (ZIKV) is a growing epidemic affecting several countries, whose effects include severe neurological damage such as Guillain-Barre syndrome and microcephaly. The virus infects peripheral dendritic tissue and transports axonally to neurons, especially neuroprogenitor cells, where […]
Jonathon Cummock Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive, debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by multifaceted decline in cognitive and behavioral functions1, 11. Key neuronal pathology includes amyloid-beta plaques and/or neurofibrillary tangles1, 11. A well-known feature of AD is the marked […]
Esra Gumuser Introduction. Alcohol Use Disorder affects the United States both economically, with excessive binge drinking costing the U.S. $249 billion in 2010 alone1, and in mortality, being responsible for over 30,000 deaths in the 20142. Long-term alcohol use is […]
Jonathon Cummock Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive, debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by multifaceted decline in cognitive and behavioral functions1, 11. Key neuronal pathology includes amyloid-beta plaques and/or neurofibrillary tangles1, 11. A well-known feature of AD is the marked […]
Christina Phan Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a type of dementia that typically occurs in adults older than 65 years of age,characterized symptomatically with the progressive loss of cognitive function and psychiatric manifestations. The depositions of plaques consisting of insoluble […]
Sasha Burrowes Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are leading non-genetic causes of neurodevelopmental disabilities in the US and worldwide1. Acting as a teratogen, ethanol has been shown to drastically change the developmental course of maturing […]
Arko Ghosh Introduction: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by lower motor neuron loss and muscle denervation, which can result in quadriplegia, respiratory failure and ultimately death[1,2]. SMA has an incidence of approximately 1 […]
Nitin Agrawal Introduction. Alzheimer’s Disease is progressive neurodegeneration that is associated with beta-amyloid protein plaques and tau tangle accumulations1. Historically, the amyloid hypothesis, which states that the buildup of beta-amyloid plaques causes direct synaptic damage leading to cell death with […]
Randy Volkmer II Introduction. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a multifactorial disease that displays varying degrees of behavioral, social, and/or intellectual incapacity in the individual that it affects1. Causes of ASD have been widely speculated, but recent discovery of differences […]
Jahnavi Udaikumar Introduction. Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, affects nearly 45 million people worldwide with increasing progression despite its unclear etiology.1 Discovered in 1906, AD is a neurodegenerative disorder that arises from accumulations of amyloid-β plaques […]