Last month this column considered current and future progress in Alzheimer Disease (AD) diagnosis, management, and treatment. Because AD is a terrible brain disease with an increasing rate of prevalence
Any terminal illness is a terrible thing; but to a cryonics member, a brain-destroying neurodegenerative disease is the worst contemporary medical “death sentence” one can receive. There are several flavors of
Cryonics seeks to preserve terminally ill humans in anticipation of future medical advances that may restore these patients to youthful vigor, cure their devastating diseases, and resuscitate them from cryopreservation
Cryonics Magazine, February 2013 This is the first entry in a new series of short articles about neuroscience and its implications for the field of human
First published in Cryonics, 4th Quarter 2011 Robert Ettinger on Substrate-Independent Minds Introduction and Afterword by Aschwin de Wolf Introduction Robert Ettinger, the “father of
Cryonics Magazine, September-October 2012 On Saturday, July 7, 2012, I attended the Symposium on Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders in Portland, Oregon. The symposium was the “brain child”
Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are by Sebastian Seung, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, 384 pages, 2012. [This review originally appeared in
On October 11, 2013, the Wall Street Journal featured a cover story about the unintended consequences of Norway’s long-time insistence on “plastic graves” (“Grave Problem: Nothing is Rotting in the
[This interview was originally published in Cryonics magazine September 2013] By Stephen Cave This magazine generously reviewed my book Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and
A major obstacle to strengthening the case for cryonics is the perception that meaningful research aimed at resuscitation of cryonics patients cannot be done today. Attempts to be more