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The Case of the Frozen Addicts
Working on the Edge of the Mysteries of the Human Brain
J. William Langston
ISBN0679747087
Vintage, 1996, lst Vintage edition
Softcover in good condition with good cover.
Text is clean and unmarked, binding is tight, one page is folded over inside. Cover is clean but does show some signs of wear, several notations inside front cover in ink.
Summer of 1982 saw emergency rooms in the SF Bay Area received six baffling new patients. All were drug addicts. All has recently used a synthetic analogue of heroin. All six were “Frozen”, full conscious but unable to move or speak. Dr. Langston was the first to diagnose them as suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease ad degenerative brain disorder. This book is a look into the chemistry of the brain and what happens when the most effective treatment transplants fetal brain tissue. Spellbinding.
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