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H. Armağan Uysal

Turkish neurologist, actor, and director; Associate Professor of Neurology at Medicana International Izmir and Atlantic Fellow of the Global Brain Health Institute, blending medicine with theater and film on dementia.

Oct 1, 2026

Brain Bridges

Brain Bridges

Bringing Empathy to Life: Storytelling and Dementia Care

Oct 1 · 19m

Victor Valcour
Victor ValcourHOST
6:00
How did you make that switch? Was it just simplifying your life, [laughs] or did you see a narrative that you wanted to change?
H. Armağan UysalGUEST
6:08
change?Yeah.
H. Armağan UysalGUEST
6:14
I want to tell the people about the neurological diseases understandable.
H. Armağan UysalGUEST
6:22
Because storytelling does something that information alone cannot.
H. Armağan UysalGUEST
6:28
When you tell someone what to do, they may listen, okay, but they may even agree.
H. Armağan UysalGUEST
6:35
But there's often a kind of distance between understanding something intellectually and actually feeling it.
H. Armağan UysalGUEST
6:45
But someone sees a story, that distance collapses.

8 MINS LATER

Victor Valcour
Victor ValcourHOST
14:26
What do you do that others might not see in your position as a leader?

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