Tales From The Cortex
Tales From the Cortex is a story-driven neurology podcast that takes you inside the mysteries of the human brain.
Each episode begins with a patient, a symptom, and a clinical mystery. Follow the story as it unfolds and become the patient's neurologist: What questions would you ask? Where would you localize the problem? Which tests would you order? And what would you do next?
Hosted by neurologists Dr. Andrew Micieli and Dr. Michelle Jaeggi, Tales From the Cortex explores how neurologists think, make decisions, and navigate uncertainty—one case at a time.
No medical degree required. Just curiosity.
Every symptom is a clue. Every brain has a story.
Tales From The Cortex
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Welcome to Tales From The Cortex: Stories From Inside The Brain. A story-driven neurology podcast that takes you inside the mysteries of the human brain.
It's 7 16 in the morning. Laura is having breakfast with her family. Her daughter can't find her sweater, and her husband is scrolling through emails on his phone. It's an ordinary Tuesday morning. Until Laura tries to speak and can't. A race against time begins. What happens over the next few hours will change her life. Follow Laura's medical journey as her treating neurologist making decisions where every minute matters. A patient walks into your clinic with numbness that's getting worse. Someone who's been living with relentless headaches has already been to the emergency department three times. A woman opens her MRI report and sees three words she doesn't understand. White matter disease. A family begins to notice that dad isn't quite himself anymore. Different people, different symptoms, different stories. But they all leave us with the same question. What's happening inside the brain? This is neurologist Dr. Andrew Michelli and neurologist Dr. Michelle Yeeggy, and this is tales from the cortex, stories from inside the brain. This isn't your typical medical podcast. Every episode begins with a story, a symptom, a mystery. We'll meet patients from the moment something feels wrong and follow their story as it unfolds. But you won't just listen, you'll become the neurologist. What questions will you ask? Where would you localize the problem? Which tests would you order? And would you treat now or wait? What happens when the answer isn't clear? Along the way, I'll show you how neurologists actually think. Using the temporal course of symptoms, accompanying clues, neurological examination, and neuroanatomy to make sense of what the brain is trying to tell us. Not from a textbook, but from real clinical cases. 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. Let's make sense of them, one case at a time. This is Tales from the Cortex. Stories from inside the brain.
