Monday, November 4, 2013

Opinion: Predicting Perfect Storms ... On embracing technology and collaboration to tackle brain disorders

Brain disorders like multiple sclerosis (MS) are “perfect storms.”
Trying to predict the course of MS—or any complex disease—based on a few kinds of disconnected data is like trying to track a hurricane by measuring air temperature and wind speed alone.
Can we come to predict them and their severity just as meteorologists are able to do for perfect storms like Hurricane Sandy? 
Check out this opinion piece featured in The Scientist on embracing technology and collaboration to tackle brain disorders -





Read more here:
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38058/title/Opinion--Predicting-Perfect-Storms/

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