_BrainWorks_, a theatrical performance and future public television
series, explores the wonders of the human brain by dramatizing
real-life neurological cases to reveal the science behind brain
diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, brain tumors and
stroke. This fascinating production is a collaboration between
Washington University neurosurgeons Eric C. Leuthardt, MD, and Albert
H. Kim, MD, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Nine Network of Public
Media.What began in 2011 as an annual TED-style lecture series about
advances in medicine became neuroscience theatre, selling out multiple
performances and introducing new ways for the public to understand the
human brain. Nine Network’s _BrainWorks_ production
[http://www.ninenet.org/blogs/nine-network-specials/brain-works/]—a
televised one-hour special—won a Regional Emmy in 2016. Drs.
Leuthardt and Kim are nationally renowned neurosurgeon scientists and
hosts of the Brain Coffee Podcast
[https://www.barnesjewish.org/The-Brain-Coffee-Podcast].
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