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On this special episode Dr. Correa speaks to David A. Evans, MBA, CEO of Texas Neurology and Natalia S. Rost, MD, MPH, FAAN, FAHA, chief of the stroke division at Massachusetts General Hospital and president-elect of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). David and Dr. Rost speak about the AAN's newly published position statement on brain health including the organization's definition of brain health and vision for the future of brain health for all. Dr. Rost and David also discuss their experiences with neurologic conditions and share how they incorporate brain healthy activities into their daily lives.
Additional Resources
Neurology®: The AAN Brain Health Platform and Position Statement
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Guest: Dr. Natalia Rost @nsanar (Twitter & Instagram); Mr. David Evans @davidevanstx (Twitter)
Host: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea
This week the Brain & Life podcast collaborates with CurePSP, an organization that works to raise awareness, build community, and find a cure for neurodegenerative conditions like progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Dr. Daniel Correa interviews Audrey Stafford, care partner for her husband Jeff Golub who passed away from complications of the condition PSP. Audrey shares her story as a partner navigating a PSP diagnosis and how it impacted her family. Then Dr. Correa welcomes back to the podcast Dr. Alexander Pantelyat, Director of Atypical Parkinsonism Center at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Also joining the discussion is Salin Geevarghese, son and care partner for his mother who lives with corticobasal degeneration (CBD). Dr. Pantelyat explains what PSP and CBD are and how these neurodegenerative conditions are related, and Salin offers his perspective as a family member of a loved one who is diagnosed with conditions like these and the role of CurePSP for his and other families.
Additional Resources
Brain & Life: Learn How Rare Movement Disorder Progressive Supranuclear Palsy is Diagnosed
Other Brain & Life Podcast Episodes featuring CurePSP
This week, Dr. Daniel Correa speaks with disability activist Paula Carozzo who shares her story of experiencing a hypoxic brain injury at 5-years-old that led to her being diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Paula discusses how she learned to embrace her diagnosis and advocate for others with disabilities, aiming to enhance accessibility and combat stigma. Next, Dr. Correa sits down with Dr. Andres Jimenez Gomez, a pediatric neurologist neurodevelopmental pediatrician at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital. Dr. Jimenez Gomez explains what hypoxic brain injuries are and how they are related to neurologic conditions like cerebral palsy and discusses ways that parents can learn about and understand their child's condition.
Additional Resources
Brain & Life: Managing Cerebral Palsy in Middle Age
Learn more about cerebral palsy
Other Brain & Life Podcast episodes about cerebral palsy:
Brain & Life Podcast: RJ Mitte on Living Confidently with Cerebral Palsy
Brain & Life Podcast: Josh Blue Uses Humor to Ease the Stigma Around Cerebral Palsy
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Guest: Paula Carozzo @pauuzzo (Twitter & Instagram); Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital @JDCHospital (Twitter)
Host: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea
Esta semana, el Dr. Daniel José Correa habla con Paula Carozzo, activista en favor de los discapacitados, quien comparte su historia de una lesión cerebral hipóxica que sufrió a los 5 años y que le llevó a ser diagnosticada de parálisis cerebral. Paula habla de cómo aprendió a aceptar su diagnóstico y a defender a otras personas con discapacidad, con el objetivo de mejorar la accesibilidad y combatir el estigma. A continuación, el Dr. Correa habla con el Dr. Andrés Jiménez Gómez, neurólogo pediátrico neuropediatra del Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital. El Dr. Jiménez Gómez explica qué son las lesiones cerebrales hipóxicas y cómo se relacionan con afecciones neurológicas como la parálisis cerebral, y analiza las formas en que los padres pueden conocer y comprender la afección de su hijo.
Recursos adiconales
Brain & Life: Managing Cerebral Palsy in Middle Age
Learn more about cerebral palsy
Otros episodios del Podcast Brain & Life sobre parálisis cerebral (en ingles):
Brain & Life Podcast: RJ Mitte on Living Confidently with Cerebral Palsy
Brain & Life Podcast: Josh Blue Uses Humor to Ease the Stigma Around Cerebral Palsy
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Invitados: Paula Carozzo @pauuzzo (Twitter & Instagram); Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital @JDCHospital (Twitter)
Anfitrión: Dr. Daniel José Correa @neurodrcorrea
This week Dr. Daniel Correa speaks with writer John Hendrickson who shares his story of living with childhood onset fluency disorder—also known as stuttering. John discusses the challenges he faced with the neurologic disorder, his experience with various speech therapies, and how he learned to accept his identity as someone who stutters. Next Dr. Correa sits down with Dr. Scott Yaruss, professor of communicative sciences and disorders at Michigan State University and president of Stuttering Therapy Resources. Dr. Yaruss explains what stuttering is and how symptoms may vary if the condition is child or adult onset. Dr. Yaruss also shares tools to help people manage stuttering; however, he emphasizes the importance of teaching society to understand that all speech is valuable.
Additional Resources
Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter by John Hendrickson
Friends: The National Association for Young People Who Stutter
National Stuttering Association
The Stuttering Association for the Young
Brain & Life: What is Aphasia?
More information about guests
John Hendrickson - https://johnhendrickson.org/
Dr. Scott Yaruss - https://www.yaruss.com/
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Guest: John Hendrickson @JohnGHendy (Twitter); Stuttering Therapy Resources @StutteringTherapyResources (Twitter & Instagram); Penguin Random House @penguinrandom (Twitter)
Host: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea
In this episode Dr. Daniel Correa talks with jazz musician John Stein about the symptoms he experienced that led to hospitalization and a myasthenia gravis diagnosis. John also shares his recovery and rehab journey after his hospitalization. Next, Dr. Correa sits down with Dr. Carolina Barnett-Tapia, neurologist and associate professor of neurology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Dr. Barnett-Tapia explains what myasthenia gravis is and why it may present differently in each person, as well as important considerations for caregivers when someone is newly diagnosed with the condition.
A special thank you to John Stein for permission to feature the title track "No Goodbyes" from his upcoming album release in this week's episode. Available on Spotify and Apple Music.
Additional Resources
Brain & Life: Physical Activity Helps Manage Myasthenia Gravis
Learn more about myasthenia gravis
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America
Other Myasthenia Gravis Brain & Life Podcast Episodes:
Brain & Life Podcast: Ashley Brooks on Advocating for Herself and Others with Myasthenia Gravis
Brain & Life Podcast: Soap Opera Star Suzanne Rogers Brings Awareness to Myasthenia Gravis
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Guest: John Stein https://johnstein.com/; Department of Medicine University of Toronto @UofT_DoM (Twitter)
Host: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea
This week, Dr. Daniel Correa sits down with Dr. Jennifer Molano, neurologist and associate professor at the University of Cincinnati to talk about the importance of sleep for your overall health. Dr. Molano offers tips to improve sleep quality and duration, explores sleep medications and supplements, and discusses common sleep disorders.
Additional Resources
Brain & Life Podcast: Why Sleep is Important for Brain Health
Brain & Life: Five Ways to Sleep Well
Brain & Life: Are Nightmares Associated with Neurologic Conditions?
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Guest: Dr. Jennifer Molano @JRVMol (Twitter)
Host: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea
This week, Dr. Daniel Correa talks with Wesley Hamilton, disability activist and founder of Disabled But Not Really. Wesley shares his story of becoming paralyzed after a spinal cord injury and how he changed his perspective on life as a parent and for other people with disabilities. Next, Dr. Correa speaks with Dr. Barth Green, neurosurgeon and specialist in the surgical management of complex spine and spinal cord injuries and disorders at the University of Miami Health System, and co-founder of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. Dr. Green discusses the different types of spinal cord injuries, what happens to the muscles after injury, and the future of improving recovery and rehab for people with this condition.
Additional Resources
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Brain & Life: A Spinal Cord Injury Survivor Opens an Affordable Rehab Center
Learn more about spinal cord injury
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Guests: Wesley Hamilton @WesSpeaksLife (Twitter), @IAmWesHamilton (Instagram); University of Miami Health System @UMiamiHealth (Twitter)
Host: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea
This week, we are joined by guest co-host Dr. Payal Patel, pediatric neurologist and assistant professor at University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. Dr. Patel speaks with Dr. Janna Friedly, physiatrist and professor of rehabilitation of medicine as well as director Post COVID Rehabilitation and Recovery Clinic at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. Dr. Friedly shares her experience with COVID-19 and long COVID, rehab strategies to manage symptoms, and resources that are available for people experiencing the condition.
Additional Resources
Brain & Life: How to Manage Long COVID
Brain & Life: New Research May Help People with Long-Haul COVID-19
National Institutes of Health: What is the RECOVER initiative to study long Covid?
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Guest: UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine @UWRehabMed; UW Medicine @UWMedicine
Hosts: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea
In this special episode, Dr. Reena Thomas, neuro-oncologist and clinical associate professor at Stanford Medicine, joins as a guest co-host to talk with former professional BMX athlete now personal coach Josh Perry. Josh shares his experience of being diagnosed with brain tumors known as meningiomas, the surgeries that he has undergone to treat them, and how he moves forward by talking about his experience with others. Next, Dr. Thomas speaks with Dr. Michelle Monje, pediatric neuro-oncologist and professor of neurology, of neurosurgery, of pediatrics, of pathology and of psychiatry at Stanford Medicine. Dr. Monje explains the role of a neuro-oncologist, what a meningioma is, and the different phases involved in clinical trials.
Additional Resources
Brain & Life Podcast: Lawyer, Model Victoria Vesce Uses Her Platform for Brain Tumor Advocacy
Brain & Life: Expert Tips for Navigating Special Events with a Neurologic Condition
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Guest: Josh Perry @JoshPerryBMX (Instagram) Josh Perry (LinkedIn); Dr. Michelle Monje @michelle_monje (Twitter)
Hosts: Dr. Daniel Correa @neurodrcorrea; Dr. Reena Thomas of @Stanford_Neuro
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