Breakthroughs in medicine have increased substantially over the last hundred years, and most would agree that the introduction of antibiotics in 1942 has been one
After a few articles considering Alzheimer disease from several angles, I would like to switch gears this month and talk more generally about the interaction between the immune system and
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
This article was originally published in Cryonics Magazine, 2011 Issue #1 I am an ardent supporter of Dr. Aubrey de Grey and his work to advance
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
Cryonics Magazine, July 2013 [The following is a text adaptation of a PowerPoint presentation given on Sunday, May 12, 2013 at the Resuscitation and Reintegration of Cryonics
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
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
The idea that aging is a choice will strike many readers as preposterous and I will admit at the outset that such a position can ultimately not be maintained.