When Adam Raikes, PhD, meets someone new, he’s inevitably asked about his job. He may tell them he’s an assistant scientific investigator at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Innovation in Brain Science (CIBS). Pushed for more details, he might say he processes, reconstructs and analyzes raw data from brain MRIs. If they respond with a blank stare, he’ll take out his smartphone and show them an image: wisps of multicolored fibers arrayed in the shape of a brain.
“That’s what I do,” he tells them. “I make this picture.”
In Dr. Raikes’ case, a picture really is worth a thousand words. Read more…