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Emily Winn: After the Accident

December 6, 2019

After a car crash alters Emily Winn's life forever, she must relive the trauma when she testifies in a deposition.

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In Health and Medicine, Neuroscience Tags Emily Winn, brain injury, law, trauma, medicine, Season 9

Craig Fay: This List of Symptoms

November 8, 2019

Growing up, Craig Fay develops strategies to hide how terrible he is at math.

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In Health and Medicine, Neuroscience Tags Craig Fay, math, learning disabilities, disability, diagnosis, Neuroatypical, Season 9

TC Waisman: "Something Called Asperger’s"

November 8, 2019

As a child, TC Waisman is told that she is on the autism spectrum, but her mother refuses to accept the diagnosis.

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In Health and Medicine, Neuroscience Tags TC Waisman, diagnosis, neuroatypical, autism, mothers, parents, asperger syndrome, Season 9

Anna Miller: I Thought that Science was Magic

September 13, 2019

Studying addiction as a neuroscientist gives Anna Miller a new perspective on her past.

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In Neuroscience Tags Anna Miller, Season 9, neuroscience, addiction, graduate school, mental health

Paula Croxson: I Know This Monkey

August 23, 2019

A routine procedure with one of the primates in her lab becomes much more complicated when neuroscientist Paula Croxson cuts herself with the scalpel.

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In Neuroscience Tags Paula Croxson, Season 9, animals, primates, lab work, surgery, Story Collider producer, neuroscience

Tracy Dixon-Salazar: I Stayed in School

August 21, 2019

After doctors are unable to prevent her daughter's daily seizures, Tracy Dixon-Salazar decides to take matters into her own hands.

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In Neuroscience, Health and Medicine, Genetics Tags Tracy Dixon-Salazar, neuroscience, motherhood, genetics, rare disease, Season 9

Luke Rosen: New and Incredibly Unthinkable Normal

August 21, 2019

Luke Rosen signs his daughter up for a research study to find out what's causing her seizures and ends up having to fight to find the answers.

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In Neuroscience, Genetics, Health and Medicine Tags Luke Rosen, fatherhood, rare disease, Season 9, neuroscience, research

Parmvir Bahia: Warrior Princess

February 8, 2019

Parmvir Bahia struggles to appease her parents’ desires for an Indian son-in-law while also satisfying her own desires to be a scientist.

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In Neuroscience Tags Parmvir Bahia, neuroscience, family, career, mothers, culture, immigration, moving, love, dating, Season 9, India, Florida

Devine Joyce: Grieving for Someone I Didn't Even Know

December 28, 2018

While working as a research assistant on a traumatic brain injury study, Devine Joyce struggles with feelings of depression, but an experience with a patient changes her outlook.

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In Neuroscience Tags Devine Joyce, grief, brain injury, hospital, brain, psychology, Season 8

Kelley Remole: A Brain Floating in a Sink

December 7, 2018

Neuroscientist Kelley Remole begins suffering from mysterious and paralyzing headaches.

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In Neuroscience Tags Kelley Remole, neuroscience, brain, chronic pain, chronic illness, diagnosis, motherhood, Season 8

Bianca Jones Marlin: This is Not the Way Beyoncé Made It Look

November 9, 2018

An expert in oxytocin, the hormone released during birth, Bianca Jones Marlin is determined to have a natural birth — even as the hours of labor add up…

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In Neuroscience, Health and Medicine Tags Bianca Jones Marlin, pregnancy, birth, neuroscience, Season 8

Susana Martinez-Conde & Stephen Macknik: The Need to Believe

September 7, 2018

Married neuroscientists Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik are surprised by what they learn when they investigate deception at a psychic convention.

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In Neuroscience Tags Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen Macknik, pair stories, couple, neuroscience, superstition

Sandi Marx: My Brain Fog

August 3, 2018

When storyteller Sandi Marx begins to develop cognitive symptoms of lupus, she worries she'll lose the aspects of her personality that she values most.

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In Health and Medicine, Neuroscience Tags Sandi Marx, lupus, chronic illness, disability

Heather Berlin and Baba Brinkman: Subliminal Images of Love

July 6, 2018

Seemingly incompatible, neuroscientist Heather Berlin and rapper Baba Brinkman try to use science to figure out if they belong together anyway.

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In Neuroscience Tags Heather Berlin, Baba Brinkman, neuroscience, music, rap, relationships, love, couple, pair stories

Eva Higginbotham: Choosing Myself

June 15, 2018

After her father, a well-known intellectual, passes away, neurobiology PhD student Eva Higginbotham tries to live up to his academic standards.

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In Neuroscience Tags Eva Higginbotham, fathers, family, graduate school, grad school, neuroscience

Alison Smith: Forgetting the Fire and Brimstone

June 8, 2018

Writer Alison Smith reconnects with her estranged father after he develops Alzheimer's disease.

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In Health and Medicine, Neuroscience Tags Alison Smith, aging, fathers, family, Alzheimer's

Amanda Gorman: My voice, my power

May 18, 2018

Growing up, Amanda Gorman is determined to eliminate her speech impediment.

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In Social Sciences, Neuroscience Tags Amanda Gorman, speech, speech impediment, childhood, sisters, family

Jamie Brickhouse: The Last Time She Was Mama Jean

May 11, 2018

Jamie Brickhouse begins to notice some startling changes in his mother's behavior.

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In Health and Medicine, Neuroscience Tags Jamie Brickhouse, mothers, aging, Lewy Body Dementia, dementia, parents

Lyl Tomlinson: Falsely Accused

April 13, 2018

Neurobiologist Lyl Tomlinson is startled when he's accused of stealing cocaine from his former lab.

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In Biology, Neuroscience Tags Lyl Tomlinson, graduate school, grad school, mentor, Black in STEM

Jean Zarate: Music to Feed Science

February 23, 2018

Jean Zarate is torn between science and music until a tragic event brings both into perspective.

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In Neuroscience Tags Jean Zarate, art+science, neuroscience, music, parents
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