What is your brain function worth?

Picture your twenties. Maybe it’s in your near future and filled with great plans, perhaps it’s in your past, good memories of being young and free from responsibility. For Sarah,* it’s her now, but it isn’t filled with freedom or dreams of the future. It involves a walker – the kind you typically see used by the elderly, almost daily uncontrolled seizures, shaking hands, and a terrible memory. Sarah’s freedom and great plans have been stolen by a crippling, and completely preventable, disability. Sarah has Epilepsy and Neurodegenerative Disease; her body just doesn’t like listening to her brain. She is 24.

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