"Inside the Brain: Unraveling the
Mystery of Alzheimer's Disease," by Stacy Jannis and her team at Jannis
Productions, Silver Spring, Md.
In a brain riddled with Alzheimer's
disease, protein tangles grow and connections between nerve cells shrivel. This
video animates this microscopic damage to explain how the disease starts. The
team from Jannis Productions produced the movie for the National Institute on
Aging to depict scientists' most current understanding of what happens inside
cells during the disease.
This is one of two images that won
Honorable Mention in the Non-Interactive Media (Screen Shots) category of the
2009 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge (SciVis)
competition, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the journal
Science. The competition is held each year to celebrate the grand tradition of
science visualization and to encourage its continued growth. The spirit of the
competition is to communicate science, engineering and technology for education
and journalistic purposes.
(Date of Images: September 2008)
Credit: Stacy Jannis, William Dempsey
and Rebekah Fredenburg; Jannis Productions
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