Eric Dane received a standing ovation as he channeled his real-life health struggles into his latest guest role on Brilliant Minds. The actor, who revealed his ASL diagnosis in April, played a firefighter with the same disease on the Monday, November 24, episode of the NBC medical drama. (ALS is a "nervous system disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. ALS causes loss of muscle control," per the Mayo Clinic.