Women & The Brain

Valerie talks with Emmy-Award winning producer and media superwoman Regina Scully about her advocacy of women’s health and brain health through her foundation Artemis Rising, the importance of activism and storytelling through film, and how to move from just caring about something, to taking action.  

Comedian extraordinaire Judy Gold gets personal and opens up about her depression and anxiety, as well as motherhood and discrimination she has faced about her sexuality, and how all these experiences have shaped her comedy, and who she is today. Social media: @jewdygold

Neuroscientist and Columbia University professor Dr. Ai Yamamoto studies a cellular mechanism that may hold the key to treating lethal brain diseases. Ai divulges how this mechanism, autophagy, is involved in many brain diseases including ALS, Huntington’s, and Parkinson’s, and how figuring out autophagy could bring us closer to treatments for these devastating diseases that affect so many people. 

Former first-lady of New York City, journalist, and actress Donna Hanoverhas been an advocateand philanthropist for scientific, health and women’s causes for decades. She tells uswhythese issues are important to her and why thestoriesof those affectedneed to be told. 

Emily Rhodes Lowry is the real deal. Learn why and precisely how this young, gifted neuroscientist is approaching the first effective therapies for the currently untreatable ALS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and related brain diseases. This motivating hour features Dr. Rhodes Lowry's passion for translating clever academic theories in to real-life solutions. The biggest health care crisis that no one's talking about? Brain disease! But help is on the way. A discussion guaranteed to inform you and your family.

It was a night like any other when New York powerhouse Nancy Jarecki was struck with devastating brain aneurysm. This personal account of her recovery is guaranteed to inspire.

The dynamic Dr. Jinsy Andrews, a neurologist at Columbia University, discusses her noble work in treating patients with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, and how this drove her to work on clinical drug trials to help find a cure. She also draws from experiences in her demanding career and personal life as a mother of three to teach us how to take care of our brain health and mental health.