A lucky break: Woman reveals how a visit to a GP for an unusually heavy period revealed the cancer that might have killed her in a week As a university ‘fresher’, Katherine Hawkes put an unusually heavy period down to the stress of being in unfamiliar surroundings. The then 19-year-old was, after all, away from […]
To Eric Yttri, assistant professor of biological sciences and Neuroscience Institute faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, the best way to understand the brain is to watch how organisms interact with the world. “Behavior drives everything we do,” Yttri said. As a behavioral neuroscientist, Yttri studies what happens in the brain when animals walk, eat, sniff […]
