Exploring the psychological impact and personal experience of living with uncertainty, including the desire for certainty, emotional toll, and temptation to seek signs or superstitions.
Sonia Vallabh had just lost her mother to a rapid, mysterious brain disease. And then, she found out that the disease was genetic. Doctors told her there was a 50-50 chance she had inherited the same rare genetic mutation that killed her mom. Sonia tells Maya how she managed a torturous state of limbo, and how what followed led her to the cutting edge of science.
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