Our brains are magnificently complex - and highly fallible. This hour, neuroscientist and novelist Lisa Genova explains how to keep our brains healthy and what to do when something goes wrong. This ...

Lisa Genova expressed that her knowledge as a neuroscientist was not enough to fully understand or explain the brain and certain neurological diseases—she had to become a storyteller. “Going beyond ...

The prospect of a neurological condition like Alzheimer's or ALS can be terrifying. But these illnesses affect us all. Neuroscientist and novelist Lisa Genova asks us to confront that reality head-on.

Recently, a friend of mine was sitting with his elderly mother, baffled by her new and uncharacteristic silence, when she suddenly came to and asked: ‘And how is your mum?’ The answer, as they say, ...

In Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice, Alice Howland, a professor of psychology at Harvard, develops early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 50. She begins to suspect that something is wrong when she ...

RICHMOND, Va. --"Alzheimer’s Day in RVA” was founded in 2018 and features world-renowned experts in Alzheimer’s Disease and brain health. Cara Dickens Marketing Representative and Carli Nelson ...

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