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Episode 2 - Long COVID | Making of a Brain Surgeon

Episode 2 | Aired January 3, 2022
Run time: 55:05

 

Your Fantastic Mind explores living with long COVID and research helping to better understand the disease and the connection it has to other conditions. The episode also follows four neurosurgery residents as they begin the road to becoming a brain surgeon.



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Long COVID

Episode 2 | Segment 1 | Aired January 3, 2022
Run time: 26:16

 

It is estimated more than 11 million Americans are living with long COVID, never fully recover from the virus, while others recover and then relapse with the same or new symptoms. The segment features four different people with long COVID, and research helping to better understand the disease and its connection to other conditions.

Making of a Brain Surgeon

Episode 2 | Segment 2 | Aired: January 3, 2022
Run time: 26:40

 

The road to becoming a brain surgeon, or neurosurgeon, is widely known as the most difficult and longest in all of medicine. We follow four residents as they begin the road to becoming a brain surgeon.

Your Fantastic Mind
  • Season 6
    • Episode 1 - New Frontiers in Pain Relief
    • Episode 2 - Body, Brain and Behavior
    • Episode 3 - Living with Parkinson’s
    • Episode 4 - Unlocking the Mind
  • Season 5
    • Episode 1 - Physical Therapy in the Dominican Republic
    • Episode 2 - Racism and the Brain | Inflammation-Induced Depression | Mental Wellness Parenting Class
    • Episode 3 - Emory Healthcare Veterans Program | Maternal Substance Abuse
    • Episode 4 - Physician-Scientist | DBS for Depression Patient Update | ZIP Codes and Mental Health
    • Episode 5 - Hemorrhagic Stroke and the ENRICH Trial
    • Episode 6 - Memory
  • Season 4
    • Episode 1 - Adolescent Mental Health Crisis
    • Episode 2 - Focused Ultrasound
    • Episode 3 - Glioblastoma | Proteomics | Brain Science in Cows
    • Episode 4 - Thrill-Seeking | The Real Mental Health Experts | Brain Tumor Cancer Rehabilitation
    • Episode 5 - Psychedelics
    • Episode 6 - Menopause
  • Season 3
    • Episode 1 - Your Brain and Love
    • Episode 2 - Long COVID | Making of a Brain Surgeon
    • Episode 3 - Game Changers
  • Season 2
    • Episode 1 - COVID-19
    • Episode 2 - What Our Dogs are Thinking
    • Episode 3 - Stress
    • Episode 4 - The Opioid Crisis
    • Episode 5 - Depression
    • Episode 6 - Second Chances
    • Episode 7 - Memory
  • Season 1
    • Episode 1 - Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy | Video Game Addiction | Tuberous Sclerosis
    • Episode 2 - Traumatic Brain Injury | Tango for Parkinson's Disease | Blepharospasm
    • Episode 3 - Awake Brain Surgery | Massage Therapy | Exercise and the Brain
    • Episode 4 - Dystonia | Focal Dystonia | Humanities and Residents
    • Episode 5 - Hypersomnia | ALS | Resilience Gene
    • Episode 6 - Early Onset Alzheimer's | Preventing Alzheimer's | Amiel and Elise
    • Episode 7 - The Hunger Nerve | Rudeness in the Workplace
    • Episode 8 - The Science of Migraines
    • Episode 9 - PANK2 | Brain Aneurysms | OCD
    • Episode 10 - Sleep Apnea | Jerry Grillo | The Klein Brothers
    • Episode 11 - Stroke Treatment
    • Episode 12 - Epilepsy
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