By Anna Medaris Miller — 2016
One of the most difficult aspects of dining out for Maria Lee wasn't deciding what to order or calculating whether she could spare the expense. It was getting up from her chair.
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As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa on Microglial Cells and Nature's "Neat Evolutionary Trick".
A new understanding of long-overlooked cells called microglia is challenging the assumption that body and brain function are completely independent.
When physicians help patients come to the profound revelation that childhood adversity plays a role in the chronic illnesses they face now, they help them to heal physically and emotionally at last.