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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

Dan Daneshvar: Making The Death Call

March 25, 2016

To study a dangerous disease, Dan Daneshvar asks families to consider donating their loved one's brains.

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In Neuroscience Tags Dan Daneshvar, organ donation, death, grief, brain, neuroscience, research, Season 6

Brittany Bushnell: A Neuroscientist With a Brain Tumor

September 18, 2015

Just after beginning a graduate program in neuroscience, Brittany Bushnell gets an unexpected look at her own brain.

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Tags Brittany Bushnell, neuroscience, brain tumor, brain, season 5

Bradford Jordan: The Brain In The Trunk

April 28, 2015

Bradford Jordan finds there's more to the brain his dad brings to show his class than just how cool it is.

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Tags Bradford Jordan, brain, parents, season 5

Amy Cuddy: Passing As Myself

April 2, 2014

After a terrible head injury, Amy Cuddy wakes up in the hospital to find she's a different person.

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Tags Amy Cuddy, season 4, injury, brain injury, danger, neuroscience, brain, psychology

Susannah Cahalan: Patient #217

June 30, 2013

Three years after a mysterious illness nearly drove her insane and took her life, Susannah Cahalan visits a patient with the same rare, dangerous condition.

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Tags Susannah Cahalan, season 3, rare disease, brain

Meehan Crist: My mother's brain

May 12, 2013

When Meehan Crist was a child, her mother hit her head. It was only as an adult that she discovered that her mother was covering up something far more serious: something called rather ironically a "mild traumatic brain injury."

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Tags Meehan Crist, neuroscience, season 3, brain injury, brain, mothers, parents

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