Allen at the Harvard study told Adam that he didn’t think this condition was permanent. I just found this article about repairing the hypothalamus at the cellular-level being done at Harvard. Many have hypothesized that our condition was hypothalamus damage. It makes sense but it was highly discouraging to think that was the problem. Since that made me think it was likely permanent brain damage. However this article explains how they might repair such damage.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/rebuilding-the-brain%E2%80%99s-circuitry/