Pamela Weintraub is the commissioning editor for psychology, neuroscience and biomedicine for Aeon and author of Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic, published by St. Martin's Press and winner of the American Medical Writer's Association award for best book, 2009. She is author of 16 additional books. She was previously executive editor of Discover and Editor in Chief of OMNI. She has been a science journalist writing largely about the brain and the life sciences, including biomedicine, neuroscience, psychology, evolution, and environmental science, for national media since the 1980s. She has also helped spearhead the launch of interactive science journalism in the early days of the world wide web.