There’s a lot of electronic activity going on about “video proof” of a “miracle cure” for Alzheimer’s – the anti-arthritis medication Enbrel. I think it’s important to listen to all the voices out there on this one. The impulse is to fly into action and proclaim a cure. But there’s a lot of science that [...]
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A Buzz on Enbrel
Posted in cultural phenom, medicine, public education, science of memory, tagged alzheimer's, dementia, Enbrel, miracle cure, peter whitehouse on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Can We Erase a Memory?
Posted in history of memory, science of memory, tagged dementia, erase memory, memory loss on January 30, 2008 |
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.
On the trail of memory loss…
Posted in cultural phenom, medicine, public education, science of memory, Uncategorized, tagged carved in sand, Catherine Jakobson Ramin, dementia, forgetting, Jane Brody, memory loss on December 11, 2007 |
For two weeks in a row now, Jane Brody’s Personal Health column in the Science Times section of the New York Times has focused on aging-related memory loss. In the first, “Cracking the Code to the Memory Vault,” she talks about how it haunts her and her husband, who is older than she is, but [...]
from Oliver Sack’s article “The Abyss”
Posted in cultural phenom, science of memory, tagged , amnesia, forgetting, memory, music, Oliver Sacks on September 30, 2007 |
In the Sept. 24th issue of the New Yorker, Oliver Sacks tells the tale of Clive Wearing. In his forties, Wearing suffered herpes encephalitis and as a result, has a memory of only seconds. Sacks is fascinated by Wearing’s retained musical skills and his love for his wife Deborah. It’s a long article – fascinating [...]
in search of the perfect memory
Posted in cultural phenom, science of memory, tagged alzheimer's, dementia, forget, forgetting, immortality, memory, software on September 26, 2007 |
A. R. Luria gave us “S” in the Mind of a Mnemonist. “S” could remember extensive, random sequences of numbers years after he’d seen them. Yet, he was nearly socially illiterate. Now there is Gordon Bell and life logging. Bell endeavors to record every bit of data in his life (literally everything he sees and [...]
