Cora Walsh with her parents, Chris Walsh and Emily Johnson.

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Cora Walsh stands outdoors between her parents, Chris Walsh and Emily Johnson.

Cora Walsh with her parents, Chris Walsh and Emily Johnson. LA Johnson/NPR

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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

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