A student hated reading for years. Her podcast explores finding the right diagnosis
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By Sequoia Carrillo, Janet W. Lee

Friday, October 9, 2026 • 5:00 AM EDT

Heard on Morning Edition
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — Cora Walsh walks home from middle school every day. It's only a few tree-lined blocks in Rockville Centre on Long Island, but the movement helps clear her head of the school day. She probably thinks about how the brain works more than most seventh-graders.

"I want to be a doctor," she says. "And I want to go to Princeton and major in neuroscience."

Her fascination started a few years ago when she was struggling to figure out what was happening in her own head.

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