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As a medical illustrator I have loved creating work for neurosurgeons and neuroscientists. Here’s one of my pieces on a craniotomy showing a subdural grid electrode for the surgical treatment of epilepsy.

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2020-07-31


Lately I've been working with film and dance, but I also sing and illustrate...

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2020-07-31

- Heres a diagram of the brain that I made in illustrator - it took a lot of time but worth it in my opinion.

( this may turn into a thread of my paintings at some point )

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2020-07-30

TOMORROW 🗣️ is day! Post photos of you in the lab, microscopy, data visualizations, your own art, musical & dance performances for an art contest! We also have a live Q&A w/ filmmaker, 🤩 3PM EDT 🤩

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2020-07-30

On July 30th is celebrating as part of Share your favorite brain facts and images, whether of you working in the lab, your microscopy or your artistic endeavors and Tag and use the hashtag

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2020-07-30

Stored Memories Brain. multimedia, 16x20”. This brain is collaged from old CDs. I drew neurons on each and collaged the background from IBM punch cards. The brain represents the computer-like storage of data in many forms by neurons.

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2019-11-06

Fiery Synapses: My new 8x10” acrylic painting showing axons and synapses in central nervous system.

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2019-09-22

Work in progress - this is how far I got last night - let’s see what today brings

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2019-07-07

Spinal Cord. Redid the background on this painting adding extracellular recording traces with I did a lot of these recordings during my postdoc days.

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2019-06-25

Day 5 of is a cartoon teaser by a new artist on our team, Jacinta (). Leonardo da Vinci, famously known as a painter, produced remarkable drawings of human anatomy and the brain! New cartoon posted next week

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2019-03-06

“Speed Inducers” featuring the often forgotten cell of the nervous system, https://t.co/Ui7cIKYeKC

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2019-01-07

It's art reception day! Stop by the Eccles Health Sciences Library between 4:30 and 6pm for some free food and neuro art.

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2018-10-26

My latest cartoon called Pain Wars. It shows neurons shooting neurotransmitters at each other out of their axon terminals at synapses. https://t.co/jgOHzp9oXb

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2018-02-18