Posts tagged brain
Conversations: Jake Broder, Lucy Davenport & Bruce Miller, MD
Conversations: Jake Broder, Lucy Davenport & Bruce Miller, MD

Playwright Jake Broder, actor Lucy Davenport, and neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller discuss Broder’s play UnRavelled, which explores the fascinating relationship between dementia, art, and music.

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ConversationsThe Nocturnistsneurology, storytelling, playwriting, acting, art, medicine, music, unexpected diagnoses, mental decline, brain, pandemic play, frontotemporal disorders, dementia, changing identity, relationships, degenerative disease, frontotemporal degeneration disease
Conversations: Sidarta Ribeiro
Conversations: Sidarta Ribeiro

Neuroscientist and author Sidarta Ribeiro speaks about his book The Oracle of Night, which investigates the art and science of dreams and the extraordinary power dreams have in shaping our world.

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ConversationsThe Nocturnistsmedicine, dreams, sleep, memories, remembering, forgetting, rem sleep, waking, lucid dreams, learning, sleep deprivation, anxiety, dream imagery, creativity, hallucination, mental illness, unconscious, brain, medical training, doctors, Brazil
Conversations: Cindy Weinstein & Bruce Miller, MD
Conversations: Cindy Weinstein & Bruce Miller, MD

Professor Cindy Weinstein and Dr. Bruce Miller speak about their co-authored book Finding the Right Words, which explores literature, grief, and the brain through the story of Cindy’s father, who lived and died with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

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The Nocturnistsaging, early-onset dementia, alzheimers disease, brain, degenerative, memory, Moby Dick, neurology, Thomas Pynchon, science, death, shiva, father, story, writing
Conversations: Ross Douthat
Conversations: Ross Douthat

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat speaks about his book The Deep Places, which chronicles his harrowing experience with chronic Lyme disease.

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ConversationsThe NocturnistsAlzheimer’s, disease, dementia, book, longtermcare, caregiver, caregiving, brain, aging, memory, history, science, socialconstruction, geriatrics, cognitiveimpairment, disability, nursinghome, autonomy, selfdetermination, narrativemedicine, morality, forgetting, creativity, creativecare, delirium, pharmacology, supplements, FDA, policy, technology, homelessness, deception, home, extendedmind, neurodegeneration, architecture, healthcare, medications, therapeutics, treatment, moralchoice, medicalethics, cme, doctors, patients, storytelling, lyme disease, antibiotics, bacteria, chronic illness, CDC, medical controversy, evidence, Connecticut, medical consensus, establishment, climate change, Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, Rife machine, anecdata, medical research, experimental treatment, skepticism
Conversations: Jason Karlawish, MD
Conversations: Jason Karlawish, MD

Dr. Jason Karlawish speaks about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s, and the mounting practical, moral, and ethical quandaries of caring for patients with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-causing diseases.

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ConversationsThe NocturnistsAlzheimer’s, disease, dementia, book, longtermcare, caregiver, caregiving, brain, aging, memory, history, science, socialconstruction, geriatrics, cognitiveimpairment, disability, nursinghome, autonomy, selfdetermination, narrativemedicine, morality, forgetting, creativity, creativecare, delirium, pharmacology, supplements, braingames, FDA, policy, technology, surveillance, homelessness, design, deception, home, extendedmind, neurodegeneration, architecture, healthcare, hospital, medications, therapeutics, treatment, moralchoice, medicalethics, cme