Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  E Hika ana ki raro i te poka o te kiore. Nā Allan Ropper & B. D. Burrell. (Atlantic £17.99) I etahi tau kua pahure ake nei i te pirihimana i aukati i tetahi taraiwa e tata ana ki te kotahi haora e huri ana i te hurihuri. I tana pātai ki a ia mēnā he raruraru, ka whakahokia e te tangata: 'E kore ahau e mohio me pēhea ahau i tae mai ai ki konei.' He whakamārama whakamīharo a Ropper mō tana mahi hei kairangahau i Boston (whakaahua o te taonga) I kawea te kaihautū pōhēhē, he kaihokohoko, ki te hōhipera, i reira kaore he raruraru i kitea e te taote rangatahi, haunga te ngaro o te mahara. I whakatau ia he wāhanga o te amnesia ao (TGA), he āhuatanga whakamataku, engari he kore kino. I tono te taote rangatahi ki a Tākuta Allan Ropper, i taua wā ko ia te kaitohutohu matua o te hohipera i te roroi, kia whakaaetia te tuku i te tūroro, i te tūmanako ka hoki mai te ngaronga mahara ki a ia, pērā i te tikanga i roto i ngā take o te TGA, i roto i ngā haora. I tirotirohia e Ropper taua tangata. I a rāua tahi, i whakaaro rātau ko te tūtukitanga i te tiriti i te mutunga o te haerenga 12 haora. I mahara anake te tūroro ki te eke ki roto i tana waka i taua ata, me te haere ki tētahi wāhi tino rerekē. Kāore i taea e ia te pupuri i ngā ingoa o ngā tākuta i tirotirohia ia, i te mea rānei i kai ai ia. I te kore e whakapono ki te tātaritanga TGA, ka whakatau a Ropper ki te pupuri i a ia i roto i te po, e whakaaro ana he parekura. I te ata i muri mai, kua hoki mai te mahara o te kaihokohoko, engari he nui nga waahi: mehemea i pangia e ia he waahanga o te amnesia wa poto, kua hoki mai katoa. I muri i te 23 haora, ka pōhēhē te kōrero a te tūroro, ā, ka mōhio tonu a Ropper kei te pāngia ia e te mate pukupuku. I aukati te rerenga toto o tētahi wāhanga o tōna roro i tētahi rerenga toto. I te maimoatanga ki nga anticoagulants me etahi atu rongoa, ka tere te ora o te tangata me te iti noa o nga raru mahara. E whakaatu ana te pūrongo whakamīharo, ā, e hīkoi ana hoki a Ropper mō tana mahi hei kaimātai roro i Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital i Massachusetts he aha te mea ngaro, he iti noa iho hoki te mōhio ki te roro, ehara i te mea iti rawa i roto i te rārangi o ngā mea katoa e hē ai. I ētahi wā ka pā mai nā te pēhanga ā-hinengaro, pērā i te take o tētahi...
He whakamārama whakamīharo a Ropper mō tana mahi hei kaimātai roro i Boston. I atawhai ia i tētahi tangata i ngaro i a ia tōna mahara, ā, i pau i a ia ngā haora 12 e taraiwa ana i tana motokā. I te kore e whakaponohia e te tātaritanga taketake i pupuri ia ia i roto i mo te whakamātautau atu. I kitea e ia he aukati arotahi e aukati ana i te rere o te toto ki tōna roro.