by Samantha Cunningham Illustration: “Brain” by Michelle Shi The Role of Patients and Doctors in Decision-Making A Patient’s Request “I need a laparoscopy,” I told my doctor. Sure, I was the patient, and he was the provider, but I already...
by Fiona Boardman Illustration: “Prescription/Drug” by Sushant Thomas If one Googles “uses for medical marijuana,” they will find a long list of pains, aches and conditional symptoms that cannabis may alleviate. As much of the list is not yet scientifically...
by Anthony Oganov Illustration: “Zebrafish Olfactory Bulb Connectome” from Nature May 2016 The brain has always been regarded as an enigma. Consequently, the field of neural science has always been stigmatized as coming up short, providing only cursory answers to...
Kavinda Wijayaratne She woke up that day as if to start anew. She left her town halfway across the country for this city. She was willing to go out and give it a shot to go to college here. Moving...
Rebecca M Walton Similar to a spider’s web and its labyrinth of connections A variety of paths, as it crawls in all directions Up, down, left, right, fast, slow, then still A cortical network elicited an action, with or...
William Pang For many centuries, surgery was treated as a craft performed by barbers. In medieval times, barbers had an expanded scope of practice in an array of surgical procedures that would later cement the foundation of modern surgery. The...