Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery

From an award winning science journalist, this book explores the watershed event following the discovery of a certain type of amnesia, first found in people who have overdosed on fentanyl. The story follows a group of doctors who set out to understand this symptom in these survivors, but their findings had implications that brought about plenty of skepticism from many in the medical establishment as well as outright disdain and indifference. They would come to share the discovery that opioid use can damage new memory formation in the brain, by affecting the hippocampus. This is a story of how new information and discovery can move in the scientific world, it talks about memory and general, and what the future of memory and treatments for ailments like Alzheimer's. 

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