Meave Pascoe CWRU Graduate Student School of Medicine
Connections This picture is not one, but two images; the background is a photo, the foreground is an illustration. The background is a confocal microscopy image of the corpus callosum, stained for its many cellular components, created as part of research to understand how those components and their interactions can bring about disease states such as multiple sclerosis. However, the corpus callosum itself is beautiful in its simplicity; it is what allows for connections across brain hemispheres, and what inspired the foreground of this picture. The illustration in the foreground is of two people, connected to each other, standing on a precipice above the sea, witnessing the beauty of the expansive universe. The microcosm of the brain and the macrocosm of the universe are not all that different, and in the end, it is our connections, between our cells and between ourselves, that give our experience of the world meaning.
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