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Recovering from a stroke or brain injury can feel very lonely, but the NeuroNerds are here to help! Every Monday, join Joe Borges and co-host Lauren Manzano as they share their personal recovery journeys mixed with discussions on varying nerd topics from comics to superhero movie theories to video games and more. If you’re a stroke or brain injury survivor, a caregiver or family member of a survivor or just a big lover of nerd culture, this podcast is for you.

Comic Con 2019 Wrap with Ash and Malcom

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San Diego Comic Con 2019 is over and The NeuroNerds have lots of feelings and reactions to shar…

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Comic Con & Prime Day 2019 Pre-Game

We’re counting down to San Diego Comic Con 2019 and co-hosts Joe and Lauren are talking in depth about all of the panels and nerdom they’d like to hear about from our NeuroNerd correspondent Ash who will be on-location. (Stay tuned for our next episode will include live interviews with Ash at the show!) Joe and Lauren talk Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Disney, Marvel plus their Amazon Prime picks for Prime Day as well as Lauren’s new obsession with the Amazon Prime show ‘Good Omens’. What are you most excited to see at Comic Con and what will you be getting on Amazon Prime Day? Share with us in the comments on our socials!

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Comic Con & Prime Day 2019 Pre-Game

All episodes available at https://TheNeuroNerds.com. Follow @TheNeuroNerds on Twitter/Instagram and Like us at Facebook.com/TheNeuroNerds.
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We’re counting down to San Diego Comic Con 2019 and co-hosts Joe and Lauren are talking in depth…

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Hangin With My Stromie Tamsen & The Butler Crew

This episode features a very special, in-person interview with Tamsen Butler of The Stromies! We’ve had Tamsen on the show before with The Stromies – a collective of 3 stroke survivor friends who created a blog to share their recovery journeys along with featuring other stroke survivor stories. Tamsen and The Stromies do amazing work for the stroke and brain injury survivor community so we are happy to have her on the show again along with her whole family! With Tamsen’s “stroke-iversary” approaching on July 15th, it was the perfect time for her to share her personal stroke story along with her family sharing their experience including the unique perspective of her children, Monet and Abram and how Monet’s quick thinking helped save her mother’s life!

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Hangin With My My Stromie Tamsen & The Butler Crew

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This episode features a very special, in-person interview with Tamsen Butler of The Stromies! W…

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Joe’s Birthday vs The 4th of July

It’s a couple days away from Joe’s birthday (July 3rd), the 4th of July and the premiere of the new Spider-Man movie! The NeuroNerds are talking all about how they have beat their personal struggles with celebrating their birthdays and how their brain injury experiences have been a big part of that! Plus they share how they deal with the overstimulation that comes with July 4th parties and fireworks, how they overcame bullying and became comfortable in their own skin after childhood growing pains.

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Joe & Lauren Go Into The Spider-Verse

Our co-host Lauren, is back!! And in honor of her return she and Joe are getting super nerdy. With ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ coming out in a week, Joe and Lauren talk about their theories about the Spider-verse and how Marvel is going to connect the different iterations of Spider-Man on the big screen using alternate realities unleashing the Marvel multiverse! Which of course leads them into a further discussion of alternate realities, science fiction and quantum physics in general. What do you think about the idea of connecting all the Spider-Man movies through the multiverse? Let us know on our socials!

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Joe & Lauren Go Into The Spider-Verse

Our co-host Lauren, is back!! And in honor of her return she and Joe are getting super nerdy. With *Spider-Man: Far From Home* coming out in a week, Joe and Lauren talk about their theories about the Spider-verse and how Marvel is going to connect the different iterations of Spider-Man on the big screen using alternate realities unleashing the Marvel multiverse! Which of course leads them into a further discussion of alternate realities, science fiction and quantum physics in general. What do you think about the idea of connecting all the Spider-Man movies through the multiverse? Let us know on our socials!

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Migraine and Headache Awareness Month

It’s Migraine and Headache Awareness Month and our host Joe is talking all about how migraines and headaches could be signs of stroke or brain injury with guest co-host and producer of the show Felice. They run down all the different kinds of headaches, symptoms and phases of a migraine. Their overall message is to always err on the side of caution so if you’re experiencing your worst headache or first time migraine as an adult, you should go to the doctor ASAP to make sure everything is ok!

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Thank You

In response to last week’s episode, our listeners and stroke/brain injury survivor community has stepped up and supported our host Joe by flooding Twitter with complaints to Valley Presbyterian Hospital asking them to take responsibility and apologize for their negligent care of him during Joe’s stay there. We really appreciate your support so this episode is dedicated to our listeners plus Joe and guest co-host and our producer, Felice, talk about what’s planned for our upcoming episodes this summer. What would you like to hear us talk about on future episodes? Let us know on our socials! And please keep tweeting at Valley Pres. Link to tweet is below.

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