ATLANTA — Emory University and Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) are teaming up once again for a seventh season of the Emmy Award-winning television series Your Fantastic Mind,” premiering Monday, April 13, at 9:30 p.m. ET.
Season 7 will feature six episodes airing weekly on Mondays at 9:30 p.m. through May 18 on GPB’s statewide television network, with repeat broadcasts on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. ET.
The new season will explore a range of topics, including ALS, Alzheimer’s, suicide prevention and early brain development. The series continues its mission of translating groundbreaking neuroscience and clinical care into compelling stories of human experience, recovery and innovation. Each 30-minute episode brings viewers inside research labs, hospitals, schools and communities to witness the lives being changed by medical science.
Since its debut in 2019, “Your Fantastic Mind” has earned 15 Southeast Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The series is nationally syndicated through the National Educational Telecommunications Association and airs on more than 200 PBS stations across 49 states.
Hosted and written by Jaye Watson, a video producer at Emory and an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist, the series is co-executive produced by Watson and Kenny Hamilton, Emory School of Medicine’s director of videography, who is also an Emmy and Murrow award winner and a five-time National Press Photographers Association Photographer of the Year.
Season 7 Highlights
Episode 1 — “Heart and Mind” (April 13): Researchers travel to India to build on the long-running CARRS (Center for cArdiometabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia) study, which has tracked the health of thousands of participants for 15 years. There, they are exploring how diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol may influence the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline, with the goal of finding clues that could help prevent dementia earlier in life.
Episode 2 — “Phone-Free School” (April 20): In Marietta, Georgia, students lock away their phones for the entire school day. Now, researchers are studying what happens next. This episode explores whether a phone-free policy can improve attention, learning, mental health and social connection, while asking what school might look like without the constant pull of smartphones.
Episode 3 — “Hope Against ALS” (April 27): This episode follows patients and families living with ALS and highlights how essential coordinated care from a team of specialists can be in navigating the disease. It also explores gene-targeting therapies for rare forms of ALS and a pilot study of mindfulness-based compassion training to support patients and care partners facing the emotional toll of the disease.
Episode 4 — “Courage and Care” (May 4): This episode follows a teenager living with a rare brain condition and the doctors working to better understand and treat it. It also travels to rural South Georgia, where a longstanding outreach effort brings medical care directly to migrant farmworkers.
Episode 5 — “Building the Brain” (May 11): This episode explores how brain development can be shaped from pregnancy through the school years. In one story, a program promoting early language exposure is used to strengthen infants’ developing brains. In another, structured literacy draws on the science of how the brain learns to read.
Episode 6 — “New Paths Forward” (May 18): Three stories reveal how mental health care is evolving. Researchers are testing brain stimulation treatment for PTSD, communities are learning life-saving suicide prevention skills and children with anxiety are making rapid progress through a therapeutic summer camp.
Full episodes from Season 7 will be available on the Your Fantastic Mind show website following each Monday broadcast. Past seasons can also be streamed on the website or on the show’s YouTube channel.
