Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday

February 13th, 2023 and I'm the host of the show

Kara Santa Maria. Happy Valentine's. That would be tomorrow. Galentines. Better, I think. I hope you are celebrating and that you are making the best of whatever situation you may find yourself in.

And you know, I always right at the top of the show,

want to thank my patrons.

I never want to leave you out.

It's because I really do rely on you

to make this show possible.

You'll see that this week I don't have any host red ads.

I only have the programmatic ads added to the show

after the fact which barely make money

compared to the host red ads.

So I really do rely on the support from individuals just like you to make the show go each week.

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patrons this week include Daniel Lang, David J. E. Smith, Mary Niva, Brian

Holden, David Compton, Gabriel F. Harymio Gonzalez, Joe Wilkinson, Pasqualee

Gilati, Orica Hagman, and so many more of you. Thank you also so so much

for your support each and every week.

All right, let's talk brains.

So this week I had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Sarah Manning Pescin. She's an assistant professor of

clinical neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in

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