Founding story
I built the tool I wish I had
“For years, I felt like I was playing whack-a-mole with my health. After being hit by a car as a senior at Cornell University, I developed chronic back pain that never healed the way my doctors expected. Then came GI issues, then insomnia. I saw countless specialists, tried multiple treatments, and spent thousands of dollars out of pocket, yet I still wasn't improving.
With my background in biology and biotech, I believed there had to be a scientific explanation. While earning my MS in Biotechnology and MBA from Harvard, I discovered a science-based mind-body approach that helped me recover fully. I built Nervana so more people could access these tools, feel less alone, and find a path forward when they feel they've tried everything under the sun.”
— Nora Rodden, MS, MBA
Founder & CEO
Clinical guidance
Clinical Advisory Board
Physicians with deep experience in mind-body medicine help shape Nervana's approach.
Our mission
A different future for chronic symptoms
We want nervous-system care to feel understandable, evidence-informed, and available before people lose years searching for answers.
01 / The problem
Millions are suffering from conditions medicine barely recognizes
Every day, people live with chronic symptoms that consume their lives: pain, IBS, insomnia, fatigue, migraines, brain fog, and more.
People try medications, procedures, diets, supplements, and even surgeries. They keep searching because nothing so far has explained why the symptoms will not stop.
Their nervous system has learned to sustain symptoms, and nobody is teaching it to stop.
02 / The blind spot
Medicine has a massive blind spot
Our healthcare system was built to fix structural problems. But when symptoms persist without a clear structural cause, the system often runs out of answers.
Patients can be left in a loop: new doctors, new tests, new labels, and after enough disappointment, symptom management instead of real hope.
03 / The science
Your brain is trying to protect you. It just forgot how to turn off
Physical symptoms are part of the body's alarm system. Sometimes that alarm gets stuck on. The brain keeps firing danger signals for threats that are no longer there, or were never there in the first place.
These are neuroplastic symptoms. When that happens, physical treatments often fall short because the root cause may lie in the brain's wiring, not the body's tissues.
The good news is simple: what the brain learns, it can also unlearn.
04 / The future
We are building a different future
One where neuroplastic symptoms are recognized more quickly. One where people stop chasing false answers and start retraining their brains with support that feels compassionate, practical, and accessible.
Nervana is for people whose symptoms are real, exhausting, and still not explained by structural damage. We're here to help change what recovery can look like.
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