FRANCES E. JENSEN, MD, is a professor of neurology and the chair of the neurology department at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She was formerly a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, the director of translational neuroscience and the director of epilepsy research at Boston Children’s Hospital, and a senior neurologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her laboratory research focuses on injury in the developing brain as well as age-specific therapies for clinical trials development, and she has won many prizes and honors, including Basic Scientist of the Year from the American Epilepsy Society and the Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Jensen is the author of more than 130 manuscripts on subjects related to her research and has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1987. She is also an advocate for awareness of brain research and has delivered many public lectures and media contributions, including a TEDMED talk; many of these are related to adolescent brain development, its unique strengths and vulnerabilities, and their effects on medical, social, and educational issues unique to teenagers and young adults.

AMY ELLIS NUTT is a science writer at the Washington Post and author. She is the recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and was a finalist in feature writing in 2009. Her book Shadows Bright as Glass: The Remarkable Story of One Man’s Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph was published by Free Press in 2011.

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