Neurobiology to Reality
February community service: 12 hours Spring Semester total: 17 hours This month's service hours were an experience. These past few weeks' in-class lectures, we are currently learning about the CNS and its diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, stroke, seizures, and epilepsy. Coming from a biology major my undergrad classes mainly focused on the human body, cellular mechanisms, and the general scope of biology. Currently finishing up the neurobiology module, a particular module I found great interest in compared to other lectures we had completed in this program. The mechanisms, functions, and pharmacokinetics of drugs relating to the current diseases and the neurological pathways gave me a completely different approach to the function of the brain. Recently on one of my service days in the hospital, I was able to visually see a patient who had a stroke during a parade in Mardi Gras. The patient was 50 years old (a pretty young man) and had a generalized stroke at