Hacking the Nervous System to Heal the Body

Kevin Tracey, a neurosurgeon based in New York, is a man haunted by personal events - a man with a mission. "My mother died from a brain tumor when I was five years old. It was very sudden and unexpected," he says. "And I learned from that experience that the brain - nerves - are responsible for health." This background made him a neurosurgeon who thinks a lot about inflammation. He believes it was this perspective that enabled him to interpret the results of an accidental experiment in a