Last month, NBC premiered its new medical drama, Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf. The premise is intriguing: a motorcycle-riding neurologist, who’s as unorthodox as he is skilled, treats a wide array of patients with neurological conditions most people can’t even fathom. Between cases, we glimpse into Wolf’s troubled past and his own neurodivergence to paint a complete picture of a man who’s revolutionizing his field.

The Oliver Sacks that most of the world knew — the one I fell in love with after we met in 2008, when he was 75 — was the beloved neurologist and the author of many best-selling books, admired worldwide. A forthcoming volume of Oliver’s letters, nearly 350 of them, spanning 55 years, from age 27 to 82, provides a more complicated picture of the man often referred to in his later years as “the poet laureate of medicine.” 

When Sonia Vallabh learned she has the genetic mutation for prion disease, she and her husband dropped everything to change careers. Today, they lead a Harvard/MIT lab searching for a cure.

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Every Little Thing, Sally Aitken’s documentary about a hummingbird rehabilitator that premiered in Sundance and has gone on to play multiple festivals including CPH:DOX.

HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Tiger Baby, and Emaho Films have set the world premiere of Taira Malaney’s "Turtle Walker" at DOC NYC.

High in Romania's Carpathian Mountains, advocates are pushing to protect one of Europe's last stretches of wilderness and banking on sustainable tourism to revive a struggling rural area.