Patients and researchers confront ALS with compassionate care and emerging new treatments.

Hope Against ALS Your Fantastic Mind

Premiered April 27, 2026
Hope Against ALS

This episode follows patients and families living with ALS and highlights how essential coordinated care from a team of specialists can be in navigating the disease. It also explores gene-targeting therapies for rare forms of ALS and a pilot study of mindfulness-based compassion training to support patients and care partners facing the emotional toll of the disease.

About the Program

Your Fantastic Mind

Every thought, every feeling comes from one place. Your Fantastic Mind takes you behind the curtain in the brain, the operating room and in the lives of people. It digs deep into transformative, life changing science, showing us how to be healthier and happier and how we can prevent disease and live longer.

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