"On the Brain" with Dr. Michael Merzenich

Ethics class

I delivered a lecture about ethical considerations related to the neuroscience of brain plasticity to a class at Stanford last...

A child therapist who I very greatly respect, Ann Osterling (from Champaign, Illinois) wrote me an email message in response...

There are now a number of published studies that have revealed that the progression of Alzheimer's-like pathologies can be slowed...

My wife Diane and I visited our friend Mary in the hospital on Friday. Mary had just had her "knee...

A couple of weeks ago, Jerry Emmons shared his story with Posit Science. It seems that the 84-year-old was spending...

Dazee is frustrated because we have not included any discussion of Down Syndrome at this site, even while autism and...

Jacksonville, Florida is making an unprecedented attempt to move up in the world. How can a large American city accomplish...

I just read disturbing comments by a highly respected University of California doc Karen Seal [who screens and treats returning...