Mia Michaela Pal

• London Metropolitan University

Motivated by goals ranging from self-actualisation to career development, mature students (i.e. aged 21 or older) are confronted with an array of varying pressures and challenges during their return to university, many of which stem from time and the perception of its waning abundance. Whereas young undergraduate students may be more accustomed to...

This brief review article makes the argument that glutamate is deserving of its newfound attention within the neuroscience literature and that many directions of important research have yet to be explored. Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter with several types of receptors found throughout the central nervous system, and its metabolism is i...

This essay presents a case study of a species of lizards that evolved after experimentally being exposed to a foreign environment. The research is used to demonstrate the importance of both a change of environment and the capacity for change for a species to thrive over time. These findings relate to the field of psychology, supporting an argument...