Posted in cultural phenom, history of memory, medicine, public education, science of memory, tagged alzheimer's, antipsychotics, dementia, improving care, NYT's science section on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I would love to read a good history of pharmaceuticals in this country. Just when did we become convinced that it is cheaper to medicate than to provide actual care or change behaviors? How is it that we arrive at the numbers that tell us this is so? And why [...]
Posted in cultural phenom, history of memory, public education, science of memory, tagged aging, memory loss, wisdom on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The NYT’s Science Section featured an interesting article today about how memory loss associated with aging might actually be recast as a widening of the attention/focus to better synthesize information rather than focus on details. This, the article tells us, is another way to define wisdom.
Might this also be true of other “losses” associated [...]
Posted in books, cultural phenom, history of memory, science of memory, tagged books on memory, memory loss, sue halpern, what's normal? on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
As the population ages, the marker of “normal” in memory loss will continue to shift. There are several books out now that address the worry over memory loss in all its manifestations - from seemingly benign to the significant losses in the dementia experience. The latest entry is coming out this month from [...]
Posted in history of memory, science of memory, tagged dementia, memory loss, erase memory on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
As I was strolling through old emails this afternoon, I came across this article that my husband sent to me…and that I forgot about…
We tend to think of memory as an etching on our brains, but this article steers us toward a much more fluid, living sense of memory. Food for thought.
Posted in history of memory, tagged Boncompagno da Signa, history of memory, Le Goff, memory on November 11, 2007 | No Comments »
“What is memory? Memory is a glorious and admirable gift of nature, by means of which we recall past things, embrace present things, and contemplate future things, thanks to their resemblance with past things.”
Boncompagno da Signa, in Rhetorica novissima (in Jacques Le Goff’s History and Memory, 1994)
