TECHNICOLOR CONNECTIONS: Diffusion tensor imaging imbues axonal nerve fibers in the brain with a profusion of color. JG MARCELINO/WEBS R US/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
—University of Virginia neuroscientist Barry Condron, opining on the promise of neuroscience research (The Cavalier Daily, October 10)
—Colin Lever, a senior lecturer in the department of psychology at Durham University in the U.K., speaking to The Scientist about the Nobel Prize recently awarded to his mentor John O’Keefe and to May-Britt and Edvard Moser for discovering cells that constitute the brain’s GPS system (October 6)
—Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, in his 2010 book The Mind’s Eye, in which he discusses his struggles with prosopagnosia, or face blindness
—Sally Rockey, the National Institutes of Health’s Deputy Director for Extramural Research, on the agency’s plan to develop and implement policies requiring NIH applicants to consider sex as a variable in biomedical research involving animals and ...
