About Nervana

Built from lived experience. Shaped by science.

Nervana was built by experts in mind-body medicine with a founding team that has first-hand experience with chronic symptoms.

Founding team

Nora Rodden

Nora Rodden, MS, MBA

Founder & CEO

MS/MBA from Harvard

7+ years in biotech strategy and operations

Sam Kahn

Sam Kahn, MPP

Head of Growth

MPP from Harvard

8+ years advancing healthcare access and innovation

Clinical Advisory Board

Dr. David Clarke, MD

Dr. David Clarke, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor & Author

President, ATNS

David Schechter, MD

David Schechter, MD

Private Practice Physician & Author

Treasurer, ATNS

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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