
Lauren Aguirre's Interviews
Lauren Aguirre is an award-winning science journalist who has produced documentaries, short-form video series, podcasts, interactive games and blogs for the PBS series "Nova." She has covered everything from asteroids to human origins to art restoration, but is particularly fascinated by the brain. "The Memory Thief" i
Lauren Aguirre, "The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery" (Pegasus, 2021)
How could you lose your memory overnight, and what would it mean? The day neurologist Jed Barash sees the baffling brain scan of a young patient with devastating amnesia marks the beginning of a quest to answer those questions. First detected in a cluster of stigmatized opioid overdose victims in Massachusetts with sev
Investigating The Memory Thief with Lauren Aguirre
Of all the side effects of opioid use that exist, one that is only recently starting to get the attention it deserves is that of becoming amnestic. That doesn’t mean that this effect hasn’t been on the radar of some researchers over the years, though. As far back as 2016, Neurology Specialist, Dr. Jed Barash, brought s
Science journalist Lauren Aguirre discusses her new book “The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember."
The Memory Thief & the Secrets Behind How We Remember | Lauren Aguirre
In Episode 198 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Lauren Aguirre, an award-winning science journalist whose book “The Memory Thief,” tells the story of a team of doctors responsible for discovering a surprising connection between the use of opioids—specifically fentanyl—and memory loss. This condition, first
In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Lauren Aguirre, the author of "The Memory Thief and the Secrets Behind How We Remember: A Medical Mystery", to discuss the surprising connection between pain relieving drugs and memory. Lauren Aguirre is an award-winning science journalist who has produced documentaries
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