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It's 7 16 in the morning.
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Laura is having breakfast with her family.
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Her daughter can't find her sweater, and her husband is scrolling through emails on his phone.
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It's an ordinary Tuesday morning.
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Until Laura tries to speak and can't.
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A race against time begins.
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What happens over the next few hours will change her life.
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Follow Laura's medical journey as her treating neurologist making decisions where every minute matters.
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A patient walks into your clinic with numbness that's getting worse.
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Someone who's been living with relentless headaches has already been to the emergency department three times.
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A woman opens her MRI report and sees three words she doesn't understand.
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White matter disease.
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A family begins to notice that dad isn't quite himself anymore.
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Different people, different symptoms, different stories.
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But they all leave us with the same question.
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What's happening inside the brain?
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This is neurologist Dr.
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Andrew Michelli and neurologist Dr.
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Michelle Yeeggy, and this is tales from the cortex, stories from inside the brain.
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This isn't your typical medical podcast.
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Every episode begins with a story, a symptom, a mystery.
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We'll meet patients from the moment something feels wrong and follow their story as it unfolds.
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But you won't just listen, you'll become the neurologist.
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What questions will you ask?
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Where would you localize the problem?
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Which tests would you order?
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And would you treat now or wait?
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What happens when the answer isn't clear?
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Along the way, I'll show you how neurologists actually think.
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Using the temporal course of symptoms, accompanying clues, neurological examination, and neuroanatomy to make sense of what the brain is trying to tell us.
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Not from a textbook, but from real clinical cases.
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And you don't need a medical degree to follow along, just curiosity, because every symptom is a clue and every brain has a unique story.
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Let's make sense of them, one case at a time.
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This is Tales from the Cortex.
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Stories from inside the brain.