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.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsFebruary 16, 2023neurology, 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: Wesley Ely, MD

Dr. Wesley Ely speaks about his book Every Deep Drawn Breath, which explores deep sedation and immobilization in the ICU, and how he's transforming critical care, one patient at a time.

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.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsMarch 15, 2022Alzheimer’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

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.

Conversations: Kirsten Johnson

Documentary filmmaker speaks about her film Dick Johnson Is Dead, which explores her experience caring for her father, a psychiatrist who has dementia.

ConversationsThe NocturnistsApril 13, 2021film, humor, dementia, Alzheimer’s

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