在《隐藏力量》第198集中，主持人Demetri Kofinas与获奖科学记者Lauren Aguirre对话，探讨了她的新书《记忆窃贼》中的一项发现：阿片类药物，特别是芬太尼，与记忆丧失之间存在惊人的联系。这一发现始于对海马体严重受损的药物过量受害者的研究，并引发了对记忆本质的一系列新发现，以及我们如何记忆、记忆存储何处、记忆如何形成等未解之谜。

🔍 《记忆窃贼》揭露了阿片类药物，尤其是芬太尼，与记忆丧失之间的联系。这一发现最初是在药物过量导致海马体损伤的受害者中观察到的。

🧠 该书探讨了记忆的本质，包括记忆的存储位置、形成过程以及为何我们能够清晰地记住一些事件，而忘记日常生活中的大多数经历。

💡 Lauren Aguirre在书中还试图解答阿尔茨海默症这一导致痴呆和早逝的退化性脑疾病，为何在困扰全球数千万人的同时，却百年来一直未被科学界攻克。

🎧 在Hidden Forces的加长版节目中，Lauren还分享了一些可能有希望治疗甚至治愈阿尔茨海默症的新策略和发展。

📚 通过Hidden Forces的Patreon页面，听众可以获取节目的加长版内容、转录文本和本期节目概要。

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 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—where memories live, how they’re formed, and why we forget most of what happens to us in a day but can remember some events with stunning clarity, years, even decades later.

Perhaps the greatest mystery that Lauren tackles in her book is why Alzheimer’s—a degenerative brain disease responsible for causing dementia and early death—has evaded scientific capture for a hundred years despite afflicting tens of millions of people around the world. It’s one of the questions we explore in-depth during the episode overtime, where Lauren also reveals promising new strategies and developments that may finally lead to an effective treatment and perhaps even cure of this devastating disease.

You can access the episode overtime, as well as the transcript and rundown to this week’s episode through the Hidden Forces Patreon Page. All subscribers gain access to our overtime feed, which can be easily added to your favorite podcast application.

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Episode Recorded on 07/03/2021