Issue 26 Audition for Audition: Could Regenerative Therapy Be The Lead Role for Hearing Restoration? For a large proportion of the population, hearing is a passive process easily taken for granted despite the complex mechanisms required for its function. Due to the intricate structures responsible for hearing, there are myriad ways that hearing loss can occur.
Issue 26 Gene Therapy: Treating the Untreatable If you asked researchers for a list of the last decade’s most important discoveries, most would include CRISPR-Cas9, a system that has the ability to find a sequence within a strand of DNA, cut it out, and replace it with a new sequence.
Issue 26 Improving Memory through Slow Wave Sleep In the ocean, the form water will take at any given time may seem unpredictable to someone not paying attention, though there are patterns that can be identified and relied upon with some certainty.
Issue 26 Navigating the Cosmos of Whole-Brain Imaging Mapping the (B)rainforest Neurons, with their long axons and countless branching dendrites, are often colloquially spoken of in the language of trees. To extend the metaphor likens the brain
Issue 26 Fatal Familial Insomnia: What Happens When You Can't Sleep Introduction Memory loss, paranoia, double vision, disorientation, confusion, and an abnormal sleep pattern: these were the irregular symptoms of a 57-year-old man in the Netherlands. During the day, he would
Issue 26 CBD: New Player on the Pain Block Everyone knows what pain is…right? While most people have a comfortable understanding of what pain means to them, pain as a clinical symptom is nebulous: difficult to describe and even more difficult to treat [1].
Issue 26 Bilingualism and the Brain Introduction Shaina Shetty, a woman born in Detroit, spoke Tulu (an Indian language with only 1.7 million speakers) up until she started elementary school in Detroit: “[My parents] had
