A neurologist who had spent his career treating brain disorders became an unusual patient himself at 55. After a series of strokes and seizures, he found he could not stop rhyming. The pull reached his private thoughts and his everyday conversations, and it eventually drew him into freestyle rap.
His case was described by Dr. Mario F. Mendez, a neurologist at UCLA and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, in a report titled "The neurologist who could not stop rhyming and rapping." It was published in the journal Neurocase in January 2022.
