A History of the Morris Water Maze, From Inception to Industry Standard Cailey Bromer Science & Medicine The Morris Water Maze (MWM) is practically synonymous with place cells, the spatially-tuned neurons of the hippocampus believed to be central to spatial navigation. Place cells fire preferentially when animals...
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Allen Institute and Open-Source Science Cailey Bromer Science, Science & Medicine By and large, academic science incentivizes researchers to "self-promote" in order to receive funding. In recent years, major journals like Science and Nature have written about how pressure on academic labs...
When an Entrepreneur Becomes a Neuroscientist Cailey Bromer and Matt Gaidica Science, Science & Medicine Matt Gaidica, a second year graduate student at the University of Michigan, is listed in Pacific Standard’s “Top 30 Under 30.” Matt founded a software startup in Silicon Valley and wrote and...
Going Organic Could be Good for a Farmer’s Brain Cailey Bromer Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine What we do to our environment, and to our food, in the name of progress and efficiency may be affecting the health of the population in unforeseen ways.
