Off With His Head
Sixteen-month-old Jaxon Taylor of New South Wales, Australia was recently internally decapitated after a major car accident severed his upper vertebrae. Upon airlift to a Brisbane hospital where spinal surgeon...
Psychiatry: The Modern Predicament
It is an exciting time for all things neuroscience. President Obama’s BRAIN initiative is dedicated to funding much-needed research on the brain—what Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes...
Brain? We Have a Security Breach!
Meet the human brain’s security system: the infamous blood-brain barrier (BBB). Consisting of a dynamic network of specialized endothelial cells lining brain capillaries, the BBB serves as a nearly...