Nick's Non-fiction

Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! In Awakenings, one of the top selling non-fiction books of all time, we take a trip to Mt. Carmel, NY to meet post-encephalatic patients, reviewing their life from a vessel which they’ve been trapped inside. Dr. Sacks was one of the leading researchers in the fight against Parkinson’s being the first to have assembled a history of the disease. In order to combat this amalgamation of malfunctions, Shock said the medical community needs to combine resources and focus attention on finding causes rather than treating side effects. Like a leukemia patient mustering every bit of strength and technology within their means to rid themselves of cancer, the pharmaceutical industry would need to unite to put to rest this end of life mental degeneration. This book accounts the introduction of L-DOPA a dopamine antagonizer that revitalized catatonic patients to a level of youth they didn't know was within them. Before an age where 1/8 of peo