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The Human Vagina and Other Female Anatomy – dummies

By Sabine Walter, Pierre A. Lehu

Understanding womens sexual (or reproductive) organs such as the vagina, uterus, and vulva is as integral to sex as understanding the penis. Demystifying female anatomy is key to good sexual functioning, whether youre a mature, experienced adult or looking to learn about womens sexual organs for the first time.

What makes women different from men is that much of our sexual apparatus is on the inside most notably, the vagina. The vagina itself is a hollow, muscular tube that extends from the external opening at the vestibule all the way to the cervix.

The walls of the vagina have several layers: the mucosa, which secretes various fluids; a muscular layer; and connective tissue. Beneath the vagina, on the pelvic floor, are other muscles that are responsible for keeping the vagina elevated, tight, and firm.

During intercourse, the vagina stretches to accommodate the penis. It also becomes lubricated, or slippery, by the passage of fluids through the vaginal walls. This fluid has another function besides making it easier for the penis to slide in and out of the vagina. It also changes the chemical nature of the vagina, making it more alkaline and less acidic an environment that proves more hospitable to sperm.

The cervix, which is the entrance to the uterus, produces a special mucus that changes according to the womans menstrual cycle the monthly process of releasing eggs in preparation for possible pregnancy. Around ovulation, the mucus is abundant, clear, watery, and welcoming to sperm. After ovulation, it is thick, cloudy, sticky, and nearly impenetrable to sperm.

The uterus (or womb) has an inner cavity lined by a tissue called the endometrium, which develops and sheds regularly as part of the menstrual cycle. Menstruation occurs in response to ovarian hormones. The uterus is where the baby develops.

The ovaries (where eggs are stored and released, usually one each month) connect to the uterus via the fallopian tubes. A woman is born with 200,000 eggs, but by the time she reaches puberty, that number has dwindled to 400 or so.

The ovaries also release the female sex hormones, estrogen and progesterone. These hormones trigger the processes needed to create a baby. As far as the role that estrogen and progesterone play in a womans sexual desire, the evidence seems to tilt away from their having much of a role. Women also produce the male sex hormone, testosterone, and this may play somewhat of a role, but the evidence is not conclusive.

The part of the female genitals that you can see from the outside of the body is called the vulva, which lies between the mons pubis and the anus. Its various components are labeled here:

Within the vulvas lips are the clitoris (a womans most sensitive spot), the urethra (from which urine is passed), and the vestibule (the actual entrance to the vagina, covered by a membrane called the hymen), all labeled in the following image.

When a woman is aroused, the vestibular bulbs, which lie underneath the labia minora (inner lips), swell with blood and become engorged, somewhat like a penis which only makes sense, because theyre made from the same spongy tissue as the penis. The clitoris (the pea-sized principal organ of female pleasure) also swells during sexual excitement.

Not all vulvas look alike, and you certainly shouldnt be ashamed of the way your vulva looks like.

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Sexual Violence And Rape: The Anatomy Of Reaction – Feminism in India

Trigger warning: Rape and Sexual Violence

Posted by Solanki Chakraborty

What is it about the act of rape that enrages the public so much?

The 3 rape cases that stirred the public the most in the last 7 years are that of Delhi, Kathua, and Hyderabad. In all 3 cases, the victims were murdered after the gang rape. The brutality of the violence got imprinted in the minds of the spectator public so much so that most people I spoke to could narrate the details of the respective crimes in perfect sequence verbatim. Meanwhile news of several other cases of rape went around, mostly in homogeneous circles that did not create such a stir. So, let me re-frame the initial question and ask, what is it about some acts of rape that enrages the public so much?

We cannot deny the intricate details of the act of each rape that had been discussed by the media. In the incident of the Kathua rape, her photo, the color of her dress, her eyes, her hair all became objects that stood for her innocence as a child. There were even cartoon images of her speaking to the soul of Nirbhaya after death. While the public was shocked that there had been rallies conducted to support the rapists, the public themselves displayed outrage only after the details of the rape were published in the media after the investigation which was about a month after the incident. Why this delay?

Where does the sympathy of the public vanish when news of other rape incidents surface? What happens to slogans like Rape is Rape and Rapists are Rapists when Kunan Poshpora is spoken of (23rd February just went by), the Kunduli rape allegation is forcibly falsified? Why does not the public remember the history of Bhanwari Devi and Phoolan Devi? Dont their experiences resonate with our idea of what an act of rape should be like? Or is it that their survival, resilience, and defiance of patriarchy undoes their trauma of the violence and therefore does not deserve much attention anymore?

In the incident of the Kathua rape, her photo, the color of her dress, her eyes, her hair all became objects that stood for her innocence as a child.

So, in order to answer the previous question, let me attempt to answer its negative: Why is it that some acts of rape DO NOT enrage the public so much?

Most of the incidents that make it to the news have taken place in popular cities, capital cities, etc. Nabanita Roy, in an article in Round Table India, has cited an invisibility of non-metropolis locations in national statistics and national media as one reason to overlook rapes that take place in villages and small towns. Reading the Crime in India- 2017 Statistics, she points out that locations are identified either as a State/Union Territory or as a Metropolitan city. Crimes that take place in locations apart from these (Kunduli or Sutia) are subsumed into numbers, not qualifying for an independent dialogue on itself. With a complete invisibility of such incidents from the national media, they do not figure even in the national memory.

Also read: The Protesting Lawyers In Kathua Are A Threat To The Justice System

The more the details/sequence of the violence gets published, the more chances for the sympathy of the reader/audience. There is almost a demand by the public to know more about the violence in order to win their solidarity. It is a price every survivor/victim will have to pay. What else can explain the delayed reaction of the public in the Kathua rape case but publics voyeurism?

On the one hand, the degree of violence involved in the act of rape is a determinant of the degree of victimhood to be conferred upon the woman. On the other, the circumstances leading to the woman being present at that moment in the location also plays a deciding role in whether we would be enraged or complacent. The reaction displayed as the aftermath of the Park Street rape long back where a middle- aged, single mother was gang raped by her peers on the pretense of dropping her home from a pub late at night makes it evident. While all these italicized descriptors should not matter while registering a complaint of sexual violence, it sure does determine how the public opinion would be of the incident. She did not, therefore, qualify to be a perfect victim.

Marginalized identities are often criminalized in the popular imagination. Working class identities like that of cab-drivers, truck-drivers, construction workers are looked at with suspicion and a certain bestiality and penchant for violence is expected of them. Hence, those incidents where the perpetrators belong to marginalized communities, receive more public attention. And it also becomes easier for us to demand the harshest of punishments for the accused- death sentence. One main reason for the outcry against #MeToo movement was the fact that our peers were being called out; those we had never IMAGINED to be capable of such violence; those social identities we too belong to- same caste-class-occupation-region, etc. It is too close to home then.

In the Kathua incident, for example, the victim, who belonged to the Bakharwal nomadic community, was subjected to violence by the upper caste community of the village to force the same community to migrate from the village. The public refused to communalize the issue and chose to condemn only the brutality of the act. The irrelevance of the outcry can be garnered from the fact that though we continued to rage over the incident, her family was not permitted to bury her body in the same village and was forced to do so in another.

Working class identities like that of cab-drivers, truck-drivers, construction workers are looked at with suspicion and a certain bestiality and penchant for violence is expected of them.

As I conclude, I realize that are many other reasons which I could have written of: oblivion of marital rapes, Intimate Partner Violence, sexual violence against trans persons, sex workers, homosexual persons, etc. The uncomfortable answer that emerges of the first question I had asked, is that it is mostly the identity of the perpetrator and the narrative that is woven around it that makes some acts of rape condemnable and others passable.

Also read: How Could The Media Have Done Better In Covering The Hyderabad Rape-Murder? | #GBVinMedia

So, it is not only the act that evokes reaction but the larger political economy in which it is taking place. We need to accept the fact that rape need not be read politically; it already is. And we need to introspect and realize our deep-seated prejudices of caste and class that not only prevents adequate attention to be paid to many cases of sexual violence around us but also enables and grants impunity to perpetrators close to us in social/caste circles.

Solanki is an independent researcher from Kolkata, based in Hyderabad. She is an M.Phil. graduate in Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad. She is interested in food history and she swears by Bollywood. You can follow her on Facebook.

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‘Gale-force wind’ and a wipe-out: The anatomy of spring training’s goofiest play – The Athletic

BRADENTON, Fla. Youve seen it, right? If youre here, odds are good that youve seen it.

Mightve been on TV. Mightve been on Twitter. Mightve been in person and this would gain you admission into a blessed club, populated by the special geniuses of LECOM Park. Welcome.

If you havent, here it is a Very Special Baseball Play, starring Oneil Cruz, Kevin Kramer and Jason Martin on one side, and Chavez Young, Kevin Smith and Patrick Cantwell on the other. Well watch it together, and then well discuss why, exactly, it happened. Well do it together.

Standard, indeed. Cruz hit the baseball. Young chased down the baseball and threw it to Smith. Smith threw the baseball to Cantwell. Cantwell tagged Kramer with the baseball, and then Martin. The aristocrats!

On one hand, its spring training; whats the big deal? On the other hand, its spring training the best...

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Camilla Luddington announces pregnancy, but will ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ write it in? – Page Six

Greys Anatomy vet Camilla Luddington announced on Monday that she is pregnant with her second child which, if the ABC serial were to write it in, sure would throw soon-to-be-ex husband Alex a curve ball!

Stemming from original cast member Justin Chambers abrupt parting of ways with Greys, the March 5 episode revealed via a series of handwritten letters from the MIA doc that characters read to themselves on-screen that he had reconnected with former love Izzie and was now living with her in Kansas, along with their 5-year-old twins, Eli and Alexis.

Alex wrote to his wife Jo that it felt like no time had passed when he reconnected with Izzie after years of silence. And if it had just been a case of him missing his first wife, thatd be one thing. But shed had his kids, via the eggs Alex had fertilized back when Izzie was fighting cancer. I need to give these kids the family you and I never had, he told Jo. When I told you I loved you, I meant it, but Izzie has our kids. Ergo, the enclosed, signed divorce papers. #Ouch #StillTooSoon

As entertaining as it might be to speculate that Greys will write in Luddingtons second pregnancy (after shooting around her first one, during Season 13), and thus give birth to a bouncing bundle of dramatic irony, the fact is that the show has kept hidden the actress pregnancy for months already, Luddington revealed. So it would appear that ship has sailed?

Luddington and her husband, Matthew Alan, have a daughter, Hayden, who turns 3 in April.

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One Life to Live’s Josh Kelly to Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy – Soaps.com

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Josh Kellys character threatens to blow up a pawn shop.

Actor Josh Kelly, who Soaps.com readers may remember as One Life to Lives Cutter Wentworth, a role he played from 2010 2013, and reprised in Prospect Parks reboot in 2013, is set to appear on two ABC primetime shows next week. Kelly will take on the role of an army veteran named Kyle who threatens to blow up a pawn shop in the Thursday March 19 episode of Station 19 entitled Poor Wandering One. As the situation plays out, watch for Sullivan (Boris Kodjoe) to reflect on his past experiences as a marine in order to defuse the situation. Also on this episode, Vic (Barrett Doss) and Dean (Okieriete Onaodowan) struggle to reason with a man battling Alzheimers disease, and Pruitt (Miguel Sandoval) takes a stand to honor fallen firefighters. A Young and Restless alum who played Kyle Abbott, Lachlan Buchanan, recently joined Station 19 as Emmett, and former Charlie Ashby actor, Noah Gerry, recurs on Station 19 as Joey. Garrett Morris (Martin; Mouth, General Hospital) will appear as Earl, the man suffering from Alzheimers disease.

Kelly will then appear as Kyle on the Thursday March 19 episode of Greys Anatomy airing directly following Station 19, as the army veteran is admitted for care at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Entitled Give A Little Bit, the installment will surround Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) doing a pro bono surgery day and struggling to keep things in order as she is overwhelmed by the patient response. Additionally, DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti) suspects a teenage patient hes treating is in danger and becomes desperate to get Bailey (Chandra Wilson) to support his theory. Station 19 airs on CBS at 8:00 PM EST followed by Greys Anatomy at 9:00 PM EST.

Kelly recently appeared as Mr. Davenport in the thriller film, InstaPsycho, and plays Robbie on Bluff City Lawyers, which is awaiting word on whether it will be renewed for a second season. The actor just completed work on another film, Alone, which centers on a woman who is forced to fight for survival after being lured to a cabin in the woods, co-starring actor Michael Par (Eddie and the Cruisers).

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Behind-the-Scenes Photos From the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Set – MarieClaire.com

2005: Becoming Meredith Grey

Ellen Pompeo is the highest-paid actress on TV thanks to Meredith Greybut she almost turned it down.

"I was offered the role of Meredith. I had done a movie for the studio called Moonlight Mile, so the studio was aware of me. Then...I met Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman...We sat down and talked about me possibly doing an arc on Alias. That didn't happen. Bob and Alex wrote a show called Secret Service," Pompeo told TV Guide. "I really wanted to do that and the studio really wanted me to do Grey's instead. I wanted to do the Secret Service pilot that didn't go, of course; me and my brilliant choices. I read Grey's and I went and met Shonda and I decided to come on and do this. It was just an invitation and I happily accepted."

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Grey’s Anatomy: 5 Reasons Crossovers With Station 19 Work (And 5 They Don’t) – Screen Rant

Grey's Anatomy and its spin-offStation 19 co-exist within blocks of each other in Seattle. Under the same production company, Shondaland, and showrunner, Krista Vernoff, the two series had the rare crossover event. However,whenStation 19 began its third season, the behind the scenes crew decided to merge the two shows more often.

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Starting in the first half ofGrey's sixteenth season, Jackson Avery began a romantic relationship withStation 19's Vic Hughes. However, the merge also helps married couple Miranda Bailey and Ben Warren to spend more time together, as their storylines get more time split between the two shows. While the weekly crossovers may have helped ratings, fans viewed the crossovers to be a more controversial topic.

With Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital and the Station 19 Fire Department so close, it makes sense that they would run into each other sometimes. Rescuing characters from a dangerous fire or situation and bringing them directly to the hospital allows viewers to see a patient all the way through. It also shows that the fire station and hospital find ways to work together, not just professionally, but personally as well.

By the patients moving from one show to another, they can grow more as characters in different environments. Joey, an orphan, watching after his foster siblings inStation 19, continues his journey to recovery inGrey's Anatomy.

Although this has less to do with the storylines and more to do with the audience, it is still a valid concern. While the weekly merges may be a more fun event for fans of bothGrey's Anatomy andStation 19, not both shows are for everyone. Long time fans ofGrey's Anatomy that did not watchStation 19 were upset to find that to stay caught up with their favorite Grey Sloan doctors, and they had to tune in toStation 19.

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Meanwhile, for those less interested in doctors but enjoy the firefighters, they have to remain watching to keep up with their favorite characters showing up at Grey Sloan.

WhenStation 19 premiered, it was not described in the best light. The spin-off did not have the same emotional impact that fans had been known to expect fromGrey's Anatomy from as early as the pilot episode.Meanwhile,Station 19 did not have the same responses during the first two seasons.

However, after starting to combine withGrey's Anatomy, reviews forStation 19 improved, stating that the series had developed in a positive direction. The show was able to come out on its own, gaining more followers each week.

It makes sense thatGrey's Anatomy andStation 19 would cross paths every once and a while. Especially during events such as a dense fog, massive wind, or blizzards. However, weekly crossovers remove some of the excitement that comes with a crossover event.

By making it so often, viewers may feel forced to watch both just to understand what is happening. Sometimes it may be better to keep the events more separate to allow it to feel more like a novelty. Separating the number of crossovers enables the audience to feel more invested in the individual shows.

During significant scale events, the crossovers affect everybody. There is a more substantial chance of a fan-favorite getting injured or killed in an incident during the weather storms or other problematic matters. Bailey had gotten scared of why Ben was not answering his phone during a terrifying weather problem.

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By utilizing the events that way, the viewers understand that something may have been happening and are naturally curious to see if there is a development. For fans that know what to expect from Shondaland, they understand that there could be an unfortunate incident leading into the next hour.

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IfGrey's Anatomy andStation 19 are continually interacting, does that accidentally causes each series to lose their identities? While this may be less of a struggle for the veteranGrey's Anatomy,Station 19 does not have the same background. The spin-off is still early in its run of the third season.

Not just one of their main characters is from the original series, but even their pilot could be considered a crossover event. If the two shows continue to consistently crossover, it may eventually just feel like one long two-hour episode rather than two individual shows.

BeforeStation 19, Miranda Bailey and Ben Warren met during the merge between Seattle Grace Memorial and Mercy West. They eventually got married, and Ben's character was utilized as the jump point to diverge into the spin-off. By making the two shows more involved with each other, the viewers are shown a more in-depth knowledge of each other's work lives and time at home.

It also gives theGrey's Anatomy characters a chance to branch outside the hospital for their romantic relationships. For so long, the doctors have mainly held their romantic advances with their colleagues,which caused a lot of in-house problems. However, by getting them connected to the firefighters, it has given some breathing space to hospital romances. Jackson and Vic are two of the members that have taken advantage of the connection.

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By separating romantic couples, even the brief time they spend together appearing on each other's shows may not be enough to prove the relationship convincing.Grey's Anatomy features a long line of great, devastating pairings that all stem from the hospital. Given that characters like Miranda Bailey and Ben Warren had spent years together onGrey's Anatomy before Ben joined the fire station, their relationship avoids some of these struggles.

However, others do not have that advantage. Following relationships between characters when fans have not watched both shows may make the relationship seem less significant than if it had been with a character that they were more familiar with.

With both shows having such massive casts, it can be challenging to manage so many characters at once. By introducing romances between characters from each show, they appear in both series. Not only does that give the relationships room to blossom, but they also allow audiences to become more accustomed to the characters.

Those who may not have had such significant roles beforehand are appearing more often in guest roles on the other show.Grey's Anatomycharacters like Miranda Bailey, Jackson Avery, and Carina De Luca andStation 19's Barrett Doss have appeared more often due to the number of crossovers.

Just because the creators and writers can merge the shows weekly doesn't mean they should. Each series was doing fine on its own without the need for a merge.WhileStation 19's ratings may have improved weekly, that is not a reason to continually mix the shows.

Often, it is not a full crossover anyway, just glorified cameos by a few members of each series. However, while it may be amusing, it does not always add something to either show. Sometimes, the cameos appear for continuity's sake with the guest stars not doing much of anything.

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Washington University to build neuroscience building in the Cortex – KMOV.com

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Washington University to break ground on neuroscience research hub – St. Louis American

Washington University in St. Louis will begin construction this month on what will be one of the largest neuroscience research buildings in the country. Located on the School of Medicine campus, the 11-story, state-of-the-art research facility will merge, cultivate and advance some of the worlds leading neuroscience research.

The 609,000-square-foot facility and interconnected projects initially will bring together over 100 research teams focused on solving the many mysteries of the brain and the bodys nervous system. Those teams, comprising some 875 researchers, will come from a wide array of disciplines, including the medical schools neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery, psychiatry and anesthesiology departments.

Washington University is one of the premier institutions in the world in neuroscience research, with faculty known for their contributions to the understanding of normal brain development, how nerve cells communicate, neuroimaging, neurological diseases such as Alzheimers disease, and surgical treatments for cerebral palsy, among other contributions, said Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

With this new building, we are able to offer the neuroscience community a central home and a laboratory environment that can inspire entirely new concepts that allow us to grasp a much deeper understanding of the brain and have a global impact on health and science.

The School of Medicine has a long history as one of the worlds foremost centers for neuroscience research, including as a leading institution in the study of Alzheimers disease. Its scientists have identified key molecules involved in sculpting nervous system development and triggers of neurodegenerative diseases, mapped connections from brain region to brain region, and developed pioneering surgical treatments for nerve injuries, among other groundbreaking discoveries.

David H. Perlmutter, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs, the George and Carol Bauer Dean of the School of Medicine, and the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor, said the new facility will open the door to bold new research initiatives and partnerships.

Understanding the brain is key to addressing some of the most devastating afflictions that affect mankind, Perlmutter said.

So many of us have been touched by the inexorable decline of our loved ones due to diseases and conditions such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons, brain trauma, glioblastoma and severe mental illness, and we have learned that the development of effective therapies has proven formidable. As scientists, we believe that a deeper understanding of cognition and emotional regulation can help us address major public health problems such as obesity, substance abuse, depression and suicide.

The initiative will increase synergy and facilitate greater collaboration between scientists in the medical schools neuroscience-focused departments and researchers in related disciplines, especially those whose work requires close collaboration with neuroscientists.

Collaboration across disciplines will be key to advancing our understanding of this new frontier in medicine, Perlmutter said.

For example, new studies have recognized the importance of the microbiome and its interaction with our immune system in shaping the development and function of the brain. Work on synaptic connections in the nervous system is also critical to the development of machine intelligence and socially interactive robots that could solve many of the most important challenges of modern society. This building will be dedicated to advancing our global leadership position in solving these very big problems with imagination and rigor.

The new research center to be located at 4370 Duncan Ave. also is expected to inspire health-minded entrepreneurial pursuits and synergy with visionary business developers situated within a stones throw of the new research center. The building and related construction, which will be built at an expected cost of $616 million, will sit at the eastern edge of the Medical Campus, in the 200-acre Cortex Innovation Community, one of the fastest-growing business, innovation and technology hubs in the United States, and home to numerous biotech startups founded by Washington University faculty, staff and students.

We are constructing the building at the intersection of Cortex and the Medical Campus to encourage efforts by Washington University neuroscientists to transform their research into innovations that can move rapidly to improve medical care and quality of life for people with neurological conditions, said Jennifer K. Lodge, the universitys vice chancellor for research.

Among Washington Universitys achievements in the field of neuroscience, two Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been won by scientists at the university. In 1944, Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Gasser won the Nobel for their work studying nerve fibers. They showed that the conduction velocity of nerve impulses is faster in thick nerve fibers than in thin fibers, and identified numerous other properties of sensory and motor nerves. And in 1986, Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini won the Nobel for discovering chemical growth factors essential for cell growth and development in the body. In the 1950s, they discovered nerve growth factor, a protein crucial for building networks of nerves.

A key goal for the neuroscience center is to take what we discover in our laboratories and get it out into the public sector so patients, and society as a whole, can benefit, said David Holtzman, MD, the Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor and head of the Department of Neurology. This building and the collaborations it will grow will position us to achieve meaningful breakthroughs in science and medicine.

An internationally renowned expert on the causes of Alzheimers disease, Holtzman and his team helped develop antibodies aimed at preventing dementia by reducing deposits of the Alzheimers proteins amyloid beta and tau in the brain, and have advanced the understanding of how sleep and apolipoprotein E the most important genetic risk factor for Alzheimers contribute to brain injury. Holtzman also is involved in a project led byRandall J. Bateman, MD, the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology, to develop a blood test that can measure levels of amyloid beta and other proteins in the blood with the goal of diagnosing Alzheimers before symptoms develop.

Neuroscience research is a synergetic enterprise that depends on the expertise of people in many fields, Holtzman said. By bringing together so much knowledge, talent and passion, this new facility will make it considerably more likely that people will have the kinds of water-cooler discussions that lead to interdisciplinary game-changing ideas and projects.

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