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Jon Sarkin: When Brain Injuries Transform into Art

By NPR Staff — 2011

Jon Sarkin was working as a chiropractor when he suffered a massive stroke. Afterwards, the 35-year-old became a volatile visual artist with a ferocious need to create, as his brain tried to make sense of the world at large.

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