Hidden Forces
Description
In Episode 198, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Lauren Aguirre, an award-winning science journalist who tells the story of a team of doctors responsible for discovering a surprising connection between the use of opioids and memory loss. This condition, first detected in drug overdose victims with severe damage to their hippocampus has since led to a series of discoveries about the nature of memory, as well as the mysteries that persist about how we remember.