https://www.laurengravitz.com/home daily 1.0 2023-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612204718147-O0VXZUP6PMGY4PFTL5KE/Biology+of+forgetting.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612205209478-I78IIS45WHJ94R4PCJR2/Autism-PTSD.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612204429476-C4FYW4KDA9KC5LGHXF6E/Spotless+mind.jpg Home https://www.laurengravitz.com/about daily 0.75 2021-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612243827476-E7TT6UONYHD4GUJD3VIC/Gravitz2017-201.jpg About I spent my earliest years exploring tangles of scrub oak, manzanita, and blackberry brambles behind our home in the Oakland hills. In the years since, I’ve spend at least as much time surveying urban landscapes and have, at different times, called New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, London, Phoenix, and Hershey “home.” (One of these things, admittedly, is not like the others. And it’s true—at times the air there really does smell like chocolate!) After receiving my undergraduate degree in biology, I thought I was squarely on the path toward conservation science. But numerous experiences in the lab — in everything from botany to radio telemetry, marine toxicology to parrot cognition — taught me that I have no patience for delayed gratification. That’s when I turned to journalism. Today, my reporting often feels equally peripatetic, as I jump from migraine therapies to dangerous knockoff car seats to polypharmacy in autism (this last one received a national award from the NIHCM Foundation). My recent work has focused, in large part, on all facets of the brain — neuroscience, neurology, psychology, and where these intersect. My work has appeared in The Washington Post, Nature, NPR.com, The Christian Science Monitor, Aeon, The Economist, and many other publications. I have worked on staff at O Magazine, Medscape, and Discover magazine, and as a contributing editor for bioGraphic, SAPIENS, and Nature Outlook. (If you’re curious, you can find my resume here.) More than anything, I like to tell a good story. Science is full of amazing stories. https://www.laurengravitz.com/editing daily 0.75 2021-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612290815290-JKS4RKRN22JSE7L7H8HY/medscape.png Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612286630539-GTTS8542X1DVCACTTQSF/Cancer+immunotherapy+Outlook.jpg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612289432302-5NVABS9EPFBFUW030I4S/biographic4.jpg Editing https://www.laurengravitz.com/reporting daily 0.75 2021-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612328856061-S51WAZKCEZ6H9M4A7DI2/Spotless+mind.jpg Reporting My Spotless Mind: If you could alter or mute your worst memories, would you still be you? Aeon, 1 Aug, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/4404c641-f2f1-499d-a3d4-3ee8b8f2a702/STAT+image+-+air+pollution.jpg Reporting Scientists are finding increasing evidence for a link between air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. STAT News, 11 Jan., 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/0da90da4-867c-4584-a246-a417fd3c6b71/ptsd.jpeg Reporting Many hope psychedelics could ease PTSD, but the science has yet to catch up with the hype. Nature Outlook, 28 Sept., 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612300226164-3ZUC4NMJDWBUUFOLT3YM/Carseats.jpg Reporting Knockoff car seats are infiltrating the market, and they could be deadly. The Washington Post, 5 Nov, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612296436945-CWCWES4KGBP21713H8HW/Biology+of+forgetting.jpg Reporting The Importance of Forgetting. Nature Outlook, 24 July, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612303297265-JYJ0BTBR2SIV70FDP6WV/npr.jpg Reporting To manage dementia well, start by caring for the caregivers. NPR.com, 18 Sept., 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612302743993-72AK2ID367BR798K630K/neo.life.jpg Reporting The Dawn of Cheap and Easy DNA Writing. Neo.Life, 19 Nov 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612302145833-VABXXXTUU0LXY04QN1E6/AARP.jpg Reporting HABIT trains patients — and their care partners — to live with memory loss. AARP.com, 22 Aug, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612305246859-R8LOVDXZ75SM6OWOR4BJ/Spectrum+polypharm.jpg Reporting Autism's drug problem. Spectrum, 19 Apr, 2017 (This story won NIHCM Foundation's trade journalism award.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612300788174-07J8WBT8UWR1VI5LIGG6/seatbelt.jpg Reporting Risky transport: Camps, churches & others trade car-seat safety for convenience. The Washington Post, 30 July, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612303757179-FG91HLQ9FNX4FBABX1EU/Autism-PTSD.jpg Reporting At the intersection of autism and trauma. Spectrum, 26 Sept, 2018. (This story received a second-place award for excellence in health-care journalism from AHCJ.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6016fc2c3c15960033d6034e/1612305269451-8CE1HVYKDU2FAV0G4U2L/npr+migraine.jpg Reporting Gone with a shot? New hope for migraine sufferers. 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