so barash is really a puzzle solar. he also happens to have trained as an epidemiologist so he looks for patterns and tries to explain when yousee something new , he's a sort of disease detective or syndrome detected in addition to beinga neurologist . when you see something new you make sense of it? for himself, when he saw this patient i described it was, well, this is weird and this is what we know tabout what happened to him but there wasn't enough to go on to say what actually caused that very unusual damage. it wasn't until he saw the second case when he noticed the link and he said okay, there's a link with both of them with heroin use. people have been using heroin for decades, what's changed? what's changed was in 2012 fentanyl had started to work its way into the drug supply in massachusetts so that was the thing. the rest of the book he's setting out to find out if his hunch is right and it's much harder than it would seem on the surface to figure that out . >> he built a network of people who are equally puz

on the first friday of october, barash leaned forward in his chair and stared at the mri scan on his monitor. he's looking at the brain of a a young man admitted to the hospital last night and the image is so strange and beautiful that he knows something has to be wrong. woe, he says out loud to his empty office. this is weird. floating brightly against the darker background of the rest of the brain are two t-shaped structures talked on either side of the central fluid filled cavity. together they make up the hippocampus, the place that holds the keys to memory and the intense glow is a distress signal from many millions of cells. some mysterious marauding force has laid waste to adjust this tiny region leaving the rest of the brain unharmed. barash looks at his door to the still quite waiting room upon the seventh floor at late hospital and medical center in burlington massachusetts just outside boston. then he looks back at the monitor. last nights phone call from nearby winchester hospital requesting permission to transfer this patient suddenly makes more sense. the distraught 22-

on the first friday of october, barash leaned forward in his chair and stared at the mri scan on his monitor. he's looking at the brain of a a young man admitted to the hospital last night and the image is so strange and beautiful that he knows something has to be wrong. woe, he says out loud to his empty office. this is weird. floating brightly against the darker background of the rest of the brain are two t-shaped structures talked on either side of the central fluid filled cavity. together they make up the hippocampus, the place that holds the keys to memory and the intense glow is a distress signal from many millions of cells. some mysterious marauding force has laid waste to adjust this tiny region leaving the rest of the brain unharmed. barash looks at his door to the still quite waiting room upon the seventh floor at late hospital and medical center in burlington massachusetts just outside boston. then he looks back at the monitor. last nights phone call from nearby winchester hospital requesting permission to transfer this patient suddenly makes more sense. the distraught 22-

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barash is really a problem solver. he really looks for patterns and tries to explain when you see something new the sender detective in addition to being a neurologist. when you see something new how do you make senseor of it? for him when he saw the first patient i described it was well, this is weird and this is what we know about what happened to him. there is not enough to go on it, to say what actually caused that very unusual damage. it was not until he saw the second case when he noticed the link and he said okay there is a link with both of them with heroin use. but people have been using heroin for decades, what has changed? what changed in 2012, fentanyl had started making its way into the drug supply at massachusetts. that was the new thing. so than the rest of the book he is setting out to find out if his hunch is right. it's much harder than it would seem on the surface to figure outt. he built the kind of network of people who work puzzled and fascinated by this particular syndrome. mostly in massachusett

. >> person i should say that jed barash is a friend of mine and we share fascination with weird brains because i was somewhat weird brain predispose we all do. but i saw his opinion or neurological problem he was extremely helpful. so he is really a problem and trained as an epidemiologist. three really looks for patterns and tries to explain that when you see something new, he sort of make syndrome detective in addition to be a doctor but when you see something new, honey make sense of it. so for him when he saw his first patient that i described, it was well this is weird. and this is what we know about what happened to him but the really wasn't enough to go on it which is to say what actually caused that very unusual damage it wasn't until he saw the second case we notice the link and he said, okay there's a link with both of them with heroin use, people of you been using heroin for decades what exchange unwanted changes in 2012, started to work its way into the drug supply in massachusetts. so that was a new thing. it's a really the rest of the book and sending out to find out if h