Q&As

Published quarterly, each Q&A provides an in-depth look at a featured scientist’s research and how it can be translated into practical applications.

2013

Dying to Regrow: Dissecting the Role of Programmed Cell Death in Spinal Cord Regeneration

2012

Imaging Early MS: New MRI Technique Reveals Potential Biomarker of Inflammation and Target for Less Toxic Multiple Sclerosis Treatments

The Drunken Brain: MRS Imaging Yields Clues to Alcohol’s Neural Effects

Visualizing Hearing: Brain Imaging May Improve Outcomes in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants

Deep Brain Stimulation for Severe Depression: New Results Suggest It Works, But How?

2011

Tracking the Tracts: Rare Disease Yields Clues to Early Myelin Development

Ignorance and the Undertreatment of Addiction: Lessons from Prison

Sleep, Aging & Alzheimer’s: New Genetic Findings Reveal Clues to the Brain’s ‘Sleep Switch’

Mirror Therapy for Phantom Limb Pain: Brain Imaging Study Aims to Unravel How Reflective ‘Trick’ Relieves Amputees’ Pain

2010

Bioethics in the Classroom

Separating the Bad from the Good in Neuroimmunology

A Glimpse of Stem Cells in the Living Human Brain

Shifting Paradigms for Intensive Care of Severe Brain Injury

2009

Alzheimer’s and Dementia in Minority Populations: Unraveling Risks, Overcoming Barriers

Will ‘Rubi the Robot’ Be the Ultimate Teacher’s Aide? Machine Learning and the Transformation of Education