Young people experience their most critical developmental phase during adolescence because their brains and mental health remain highly sensitive to stress, anxiety, and identity exploration. The growing number of smartphones has created new difficulties for young people because their excessive phon...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severe mental disorder identified as one of the most common mental illnesses. For 50 years, there has not been a full understanding of the brain’s biology when depression occurs. To reach a conclusive outcome, 86 MDD patients were surveyed, giv...
Bacterial infections negatively affect public health. Many organisms mobilize lipids as a source of energy to resist against pathogens. One pathway, the BMP pathway, plays a role in the regulation of lipid metabolism. By understanding the use of fat in cases such as loss of appetite in infection cou...
Developmental prosopagnosia (DP), also known as face blindness, is a condition in which individuals have an impairment in the FFA region of their brain. This results in inability to recognize faces. Majority of the current body of literature focuses on the biological aspect of developmental prosopag...
Fischer esterification is one of the most prominent industrial methods of ester production, involving a reaction between an alcohol and carboxylic acid in the presence of a catalyst to turn the carboxylic acid into an ester. However, Fischer esterification results in large amounts of waste due to th...
Red 40 dye has been banned in European countries due to rising health concerns. There is evidence that Red 40, also called Allura red AC, can cause hyperactivity in humans along with negatively affecting the colon and causing Early Onset Colorectal cancer in mice. This study aimed to investigate if ...
Every forty seconds, suicide steals a life, yet no biomarkers exist for suicide. Suicide has largely been investigated from a psychological lens, and therefore the pathogenesis remains unclear. This study investigated blood-brain barrier (BBB) claudin-5 breakdown, the most enriched BBB tight junctio...
Bistable structures, structures with two distinct equilibrium states achieved via buckling-like deformations, are seen throughout engineering applications in shape-morphing and energyharvesting systems. Typically actuated by mechanically induced snap-through buckling, sinusoidal arches, a unique geo...
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a debilitative illness that severely impacts quality and duration of life, with neurologists and psychologists seeking remedies to this disease. Currently, past studies have found that metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5) and melatonin have been impli...
Gel polymer electrolytes (GPE) have attracted the attention of researchers over the last decade. Combining the merits of solid- and liquid-state electrolytes, GPEs reduce the risk of leakage and flammability, while offering higher ion mobility and conductivity than solid electrolytes. In particular,...
