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Inside every caterpillar, something astonishing waits. During metamorphosis, the caterpillar releases digestive enzymes that dissolve nearly all its tissues into biological soup. To an outside...
In the 1990s, neuroscientist Jeffrey Schwartz at UCLA made a remarkable discovery. Working with patients trapped in the relentless cycle of obsessive-compulsive disorder, he found...
Michelangelo Buonarroti approached sculpture differently than most artists of his era. While others saw a raw block of Carrara marble as blank material waiting to...
In the 1990s, neuroscientist Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz at UCLA made a remarkable discovery while working with patients trapped by obsessive-compulsive disorder. Their brains had worn...
Orthopedic surgeons call it adhesive capsulitis — most of us know it as frozen shoulder. The capsule of connective tissue surrounding the shoulder joint slowly...
In 1941, Henri Matisse underwent surgery for abdominal cancer that left him largely confined to a wheelchair and, eventually, to his bed. The man who...
In neurology, few moments are as breathtaking as when a deep brain stimulation device is switched on for the first time. A patient with advanced...
Orthopedic surgeons have a name for one of the most frustrating conditions they treat: adhesive capsulitis, commonly known as frozen shoulder. Over weeks and months,...
In emergency medicine, few conditions are as urgent as compartment syndrome. When severe trauma causes swelling inside one of the body's tight muscle compartments —...