My father went to the ER in April 2020 after developing an unrelenting fever and worsening shortness of breath. At the time this all happened, the COVID diagnosis was not surprising, but still, I felt the floor give way beneath me. From the phone calls letting me know my father had fallen ill to the phone call informing me he had passed, I was in free-fall. Even afterwards, I kept falling. The wind was whistling by my face, and it became the song stuck in my head as the groun

All neurologists, I imagine, have a favorite lobe. Mine is the frontal lobe. Let me explain why. Athena sprang fully formed from Zeus’s forehead. Obviously this means she erupted from his frontal lobe, that’s what makes her the goddess of wisdom. Obviously. Anyways. While things are not neatly encoded in discrete brain regions in general, it’s still fair to say the frontal lobe houses much of what makes us human. All neurologists, I imagine, have heard the story of Phineas Ga