I am disappointed that the podcasts can only be downloaded now. With my internet connection, they are taking up to half an hour, or more. Why did this change?

I've a friend whose once brilliant wife now, at 53, spends her waking hours sitting on the edge of her bed arguing aloud with a mirror. I was hoping to hear a magical cure like the amnesiac who was triggered by an old song! sigh

Your program is excellent;the one(my first) I heard about "When You and Your Brain ....." , sorry,.I failed to get it all.
But any way,it made me think about my wife's behaviour.
For instance,she once told me that she does things and she doesn't know why she does them.
To be honest,it is quite frustrating.
A couple years ago she had me arrested on false pretenses.
Even this year,on 02/18/2012,she left without telling me why, or where, she's gone.
I'm lost.
Thanks for listening.

I have a proposal for a new show: "What is you?", a question hinted at by this episode as well as the GUTS! episode. In that episode you describe the stomach as the place where "the outside world becomes you" and in this show you talk about brains "attacking" "you". The first brings up a great point: the collection of molecules in our body changes with every breath, let alone every meal and hormone change. Also, I have heard that no studies have shown any sort of synthesizing command center in our brain, the neurological equivalent of a "self". Hopefully you guys can find some interesting stuff on that topic. Thanks for the consistently great shows!!!!

I am a fairly new Radio Lab listener, but I have quickly become a fan! I loved the first story, Liza's story. It was fascinating and had me really laughing while also feeling for this young woman. What a great combination of qualities. The way the story was presented and Liza's own recounting of things was engaging and amusing. Thanks!

Liza Shoenfeld's story rang a very loud bell, one that I intend to follow up on.

Who out there has heard of Non-Epileptic Seizures? They drive neurologists and psychiatrists (and patients) to exasperation. No medical practitioner understands them. So far all want to say it is another specialists problem - not their's.

I have a younger brother, some 30 years a survivor of a CVA (type of stroke). In recent years he has experienced increasing incidents of non-epileptic seizures. Some very dramatic. He also has epileptic seizures, a result of the stroke. Those are controlled with anti-seizure meds.

These new and severe non-epileptic (no EEG link to them, though the baseline EEG is abnormal) are almost entirely non-responsive to attempts to medicate. Hospitals have tried numerous Ativan does, among other drugs.

Psychiatrists find nothing wrong beyond neurological.

Neurologists see no EEG link, so want him to see a shrink.

Liza Shoenfeld's description of symptoms are extremely similar. The facial movements, "Charley Horse" painful twisting of the face around the mouth, uncontrollable motions, loss of speech, all of it.

So I am wondering if Dopamine levels, or something similar along that line, would reveal anything? Or if a treatment similar to Schoenfeld's would be helpful?

Excellent programme. Very well done. So very interesting.

When Brains attack? I was a bit disappointed in the last story... I was hoping it would be more my story. When I heard the phrase, "You wanna talk about pain? I've known real pain," it got my hopes up. But let me tell you... I know about real pain. When my brain attacked? It turned into a 4.5 year migraine that I had to join an experimental study (yes an official FDA one) and go through two surgeries to get them to stop!

I was also the only person in the study to use it at the maximum the bionic device would go...

I know real pain ;)