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 knew how to Read More
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 proven, it is Read More
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 questions that seem Read More
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 to New York Read More
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 without my will Read More
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 surgical aspect was Read More
