Barrow-Feld Syndrome

General

Shortcut BFS

• Degenerative brain condition

• Initially manifests by degrading the victim's ethical decision-making centers.
• Sufferers become unable to make consistent moral choices, leading to a variety of antisocial behaviours such as deceit, theft, fraud and increasing incoherence
• In its end stages, sufferers often descend through progressively severe psychosis and ultimately coma and death

• Drug company Cognivia is working on a cure
• Medicine Veritana is now in the testing stages

• Known people afflicted with Barrow-Feld Syndrome:
  • Julian Harrowak, Former Director of the Health Office.
  • Jeanine Lowry-Barton, mother of four, Veritana trial user.

• Miranda Katsoulis, Academy Librarian, Isaac Cymbalisty's murderer lied to Kurt that she had Barrow-Feld to justify not talking about her frequent visits to Cognivia but the Ceretin 6 trial, of which she was a part, excluded people with serious psychiatric or medical illness.

References

• Perplex City Sentinel
  • article, 24-JAN-06 "Harrowak Forced to Offer Resignation" (link)
  • article, 30-MAR-06 "View from Earth: Medical Destiny" (link)
  • article, 03-MAR-06 "Mother of Four Gains 'Whole New Life' in Drug Trials" (link)