Jamie Talan
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Jamie Talan

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Jamie Talan is a science writer specializing in the brain. The first two decades of her career was spent in the newsroom at Newsday, a Long Island daily newspaper. Her articles have appeared for the last twelve years in Neurology Today, a publication of the American Academy of Neurology. She is the co-author of The Death of Innocents,that won an Edgar Award for best nonfiction in 1998; and Deep Brain Stimulation, published by the Dana Press. In 2023, she published Atypical Dementias,"that tells stories about people in the prime of midlife who experience visual/spatial, language and/or behavioral symptoms, and the science that drives these changes. She is an assistant clinical professor at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, where she started the art and literary journal, Narrateur: Reflections on Caring. She was editor-in-chief for the first ten years and stepped down in 2020, after a moving COVID-19 issue was published. She lives in Idaho, where she and her husband are sheep farmers and cattle ranchers.
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