I didn’t aspire to an ignorance I didn’t possess, it was real I really didn’t know what these people did in the laboratory, and I really did want to know what it was. I made use of the natural fund of ignorance that I came in with. I think Scientific American Frontiers worked as well as it did because in a way it was a rare thing – I hadn’t seen it done before and so maybe it has, but I hadn’t seen it – where you had a naïve person – ignorant, played by me – and I wasn’t acting. If you miss one of the crucial words I say at the beginning of a paragraph, the rest of the paragraph is dead you’re spending most of your time trying to figure out what I’m talking about.Īs an example, say, in Scientific American Frontiers, you elicited great storytelling I mean, I assume part of that was picking the right speakers, but how do you coax it out of them in an understandable way? I mean can you essentially guide people without saying, “Hey, come on, bring it down, bring it down.”? We all know that.īut one of the things that I think that we’ve found at the Center for Communicating Science that I helped start is that you need to get in the habit of doing that you need to really go through the experience of actually opening up to other people, getting their feedback, being able to read from the signals that they give you on their face and their body language – all the various signals you can get – whether or not they’re really paying attention and really following you. We know this intellectually because everybody knows that you want to know your audience, everybody knows you want to start where the student is, you know, find out what they know and build on that, that kind of thing. I think the most important thing to remember is that it’s not nearly so important to worry about what you have to say to the other person, as it is to think about how the other person is receiving what you have to say. What, at this point, would you say are the one or two biggest pieces of advice you could give to any technical person or a scientist trying to get his point across to the general public? He met with MSDF recently to talk about the art of good science communication. But he’s also a longtime advocate of science and scientific literacy and the founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. Alan Alda is an actor known for his television roles in M*A*S*H and The West Wing. But the researchers were able to reverse the process, suggesting a potential new therapeutic target for drug development. In this animal model of MS, even normal-appearing axons failed to transport organelles as quickly or as effectively as healthy axons. Recently a team of researchers discovered that axonal transport is disrupted in mice with EAE. A disruption in this process is associated with neurodegeneration. Axons rely on motor proteins to carry cargo across long tracks of microtubules in order to survive. Moving from the macro to the micro, we recently published an article about axonal transport. The researchers also called for studies that examined the connection between the psychological and the physical more directly. They suggested that psychological well-being should be assessed and treated along with physical disability in people with MS. The investigators found that interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy helped patients deal with physical symptoms like fatigue and pain. Positive thinking may lead to positive clinical outcomes, according to a new meta-analysis. But to begin, here’s a brief summary of some of the latest developments on the MS Discovery Forum at. This week’s podcast features a special interview with actor and science advocate, Alan Alda, whom you may remember as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H. Hello, and welcome to Episode Twenty-Five of Multiple Sclerosis Discovery, the podcast of the MS Discovery Forum.
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