Masud Husain

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"Do you remember Google Glass? They were supposed to record everything that you saw through the day. They weren't successful when they came out because most people realize that actually most of the things that are happening during the day are boring."

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"Initially we tried L-dopa, which is the drug that Oliver Sacks describes in Awakenings and many people have seen the film, and it's used a lot in Parkinson's disease for treatment. We slowly ramped up that drug but it seemed to make absolutely no difference behaviorally to David."

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"L-dopa, which is the drug that Oliver Sacks describes in Awakenings, and many people have seen the film."

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"This drug, ropinirole, latches onto dopamine receptors directly and stimulates the dopamine circuitry. Three months after we started this medication, David came back to see us — he'd had a shower, a haircut, he was wearing a suit, he had a new job, and most impressively, he had a new girlfriend."