Study Of 'Flexible Brains' May Aid Injury Understanding [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 9/19/144:00 AM

Physicist Danielle Bassett has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship based on her work studying the human brain. She talks with Melissa Block about the advances it may lead to.

The complexity of the human brain has long fascinated Danielle Bassett. She's a physicist at the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Bassett studies the interconnections of the brain and how those connections change over the time. This is work that could have a profound impact on efforts to improve how people learn or how they recover from brain injury. And she joins me now from Philadelphia. Professor Bassett, congratulations on the MacArthur and welcome to the program.

[To read or listen to this story go to http://www.npr.org/2014/09/17/...injury-understanding]

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