In Print
Photos by Graham Ramsay
From Focus:
When
Seeing Is Not Believing
Over the past seven years, Gina Kuperberg (right), Tatiana Sitnikova, and their
colleagues have been comparing how the brain reacts to merely unexpected scenarios
versus downright strange ones. Though both types of anomaly are processed rapidly—in
under a second—the more outlandish ones take a bit longer. Now the researchers
have taken the difference in timing and in brain activity to develop a new model
for how humans make sense of events, both verbal and visual.
Upcoming
Career
Forum
Public Health Careers: Myths and
Realities
Wednesday, April 11
3:30–6:30 p.m.
Moderator:
•Myron Allukian, Jr
Speakers:
•Deborah Enos, SM ’79
•Louis DiBerardinis, MS, SM ’75
•Harriet Epstein, MEd, MPH ’81, PhD
•Anthony Chen,
MD, MPH ’06
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Spotlight
Photo courtesy of MGH
Pharmacology to Lead Second Year,
Play Role in Human Systems
Directed by Carl Rosow (above) and co-directed by John Pawlowski,
the new pharmacology curriculum will begin the second year
of medical education and weave through the Human Systems courses
during the rest of the year.
Student Scene
Photo by Jeff Cleary
Re-match Day Leads to
New Specialty
Even though she is completing her internship in family medicine,
Tarayn Fairlie has decided to switch her specialty to pediatrics.
So she will be starting a new internship come July.
Science Progress
A new HMS site tracing
paths to progress in health care through funding, science, and
discovery.
Lab Works
A multimedia site featuring Harvard
Medical research.
StudenTalk
Personal takes on issues inside
and outside the classroom.
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