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In the episode, Dane plays Matthew, a firefighter who struggles to tell his family about his Als diagnosis \u2014 and later struggles to accept help from them as the prognosis progresses. The episode is set against the backdrop of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really wanted to honor him and his experience and be really truthful about it. [We] didn\u2019t want to sensationalize in any way,\u201d Michael Grassi<\/a>, the NBC<\/a> medical drama\u2019s creator and showrunner, explained over a call ahead of the episode\u2019s airing.<\/p>\n Dane disclosed earlier this year that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord and causes loss of muscle control. There\u2019s currently no cure. Grassi said that Dane…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Dane guest starred on an episode of the Zachary Quinto-fronted Brilliant Minds Monday night, playing an Als patient \u2014 which Dane himself was diagnosed with. In the episode, Dane plays Matthew, a firefighter who struggles to tell his family about his Als diagnosis \u2014 and later struggles to accept help from them as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2176092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2176091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eric-Dane-Guest-Stars-on-Emotional-\u2018Brilliant-Minds-Episode-About.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176093,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176091\/revisions\/2176093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2176092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}