Author: Laird S. Cermak Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 1317695461 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 451
Book Description
Originally published in 1982, this book brings together two areas of research previously studied in parallel, with little interaction (particularly in the US): normal memory processing and the amnesic syndrome. When trying to document the relationship between the two it became apparent that there was much crossover and duplication of effort in a number of areas: whether long-term memory and short-term memory truly represent independent storage systems, or are simply points on a continuum; trying to determine the primary locus of variables influencing the rate at which information is lost during retention; whether episodic memory and semantic memory represent two different storage systems, or are simply artifacts produced by different kinds of query to a single memory system and finally, whether visual and verbal memory are independent. It was written, following a meeting in 1979, by a small group of investigators, brought together to explore this commonality and to share data and theory, thus beginning the promise of a bright future of interdisciplinary interaction in memory research.
Author: Jennifer MacKay Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC ISBN: 1420502077 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 104
Book Description
Once used as a dramatic plot twist in daytime soap operas, amnesia is a real condition that is frightening to suffers and can even be brought on by strokes. Author Jennifer MacKay provides young readers and researchers with careful explanations into what amnesia is. Readers will learn about the mystery of memory loss, and how the brain makes memories. They will learn about the causes and how amnesia is diagnosed. Treatment is also covered. Fast facts and data are further provided through interesting sidebars and charts
Author: Su Meck Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451685823 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
Just twenty-two years old, Su Meck was already married and the mother of two children in 1988 when a ceiling fan in the kitchen of her home fell from its mounting and struck her in the head. She survived the life-threatening swelling in her brain that resulted from the accident, but when she regained consciousness in the hospital the next day, she didn't know her own name. She didn't recognize a single family member or friend, she couldn't read or write or brush her teeth or use a fork--and she didn't have even a scrap of memory from her life up to that point. The fiercely independent and outspoken young woman she had been vanished completely. Most patients who suffer amnesia as a result of a head injury eventually regain their memories, but Su never did. Nearly twenty years would pass before Su understood the full extent of the losses she and her family suffered as a result of her injury. As a series of personally devastating events shattered the "normal" life she had worked so hard to build, Su realized that she would have to grow up all over again, and finally take control of the strange second life she had awoken into.
Author: C. W. M. Whitty Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN: 1483165140 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 323
Book Description
Amnesia: Clinical, Psychological and Medicolegal Aspects, 2nd Edition explores the clinical, psychological, and medicolegal aspects of amnesia. Experimental studies of the organic amnesic syndrome are presented and memory disorders associated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are described. The role of amnesia in cerebral disease, the neuropathology of amnesic states, and psychogenic memory loss are also considered. This book is comprised of 11 chapters and begins with a discussion on experimental studies of the organic amnesic syndrome, along with certain associated studies of normal memory. The reader is then introduced to the link between amnesia and cerebral pathology; transient global amnesia and its clinical manifestations; the amnesic syndrome and its relation to Korsakoff syndrome; traumatic amnesia; amnesias of temporal lobe origin; and memory disorders following ECT. A neuropathological examination of the human brain in cases of amnesia is presented, and examples of the psychopathology of memory are provided. The final chapter analyzes amnesia from a medicolegal point of view. This monograph will be of interest to clinicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychopathologists, psychologists, and medicolegal practitioners.
Author: G.C. Vanhoose Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1504913493 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 316
Book Description
A man (Frank) wakes up with a beautiful woman (Kim) in a plush hotel room in San Juan Puerto Rico to find that he has no memories back from that moment. As it turns out Frank is a very prominent, abundantly wealthy lawyer who owns his own firm based in San Diego but has offices all over the world. Kim is his long term life as well as his business partner. They are blessed with many interesting friends who have unique lives of their own. As the mystery of who he is unfolds Frank seeks the help of prominent psychiatrist and medical doctors specializing in memory loss. After exhausting the mental and physical possibilities and with the help of friends, detectives and Kim they retrace Franks steps all the way around the world to a micro bionic research company in Beijing China. What they find out boggles ones mind as to the advancement of micro biotic organisms. But wait; Im just about to give it all away. Its time for you to read the rest of the story. Enjoy!
Author: Jennifer MacKay Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC ISBN: 1420500406 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 106
Book Description
Once used as a dramatic plot twist in daytime soap operas, amnesia is a real condition that is frightening to suffers and can even be brought on by strokes. Author Jennifer MacKay provides young readers and researchers with careful explanations into what amnesia is. Readers will learn about the mystery of memory loss, and how the brain makes memories. They will learn about the causes and how amnesia is diagnosed. Treatment is also covered. Fast facts and data are further provided through interesting sidebars and charts
Author: Michael D. Lemonick Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 1101872535 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 322
Book Description
In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson—a renowned artist who regularly produced covers for The New Yorker, a gifted musician, a skilled amateur pilot, and a joyful presence to all who knew her—lives in a "perpetual now." Lonni Sue has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. Remarkably, however, she retains much of the intellect and artistic skills from her previous life. As such, Lonni Sue's story has become part of a much larger scientific narrative—one that is currently challenging traditional wisdom about how human memory and awareness are stored in the brain. In this probing, compassionate, and illuminating book, award-winning science journalist Michael D. Lemonick tells the unique drama of Lonni Sue Johnson's day-to-day life and explains the groundbreaking revelations about memory, learning, and consciousness her unique case has uncovered. This is his nuanced and intimate look of the science that lies at the very heart of human nature.
Author: G. H. Ephron Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312981242 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
Sylvia Jackson is shot in the head and left for dead in a deserted New England cemetery. Her boyfriend's body turns up in her blood-spattered home. Now, as the grieving Sylvia comes to grips with her loss, forensic psychologist Peter Zak is determined to unravel the secrets trapped in her shattered mind. But as a deadly scenario emerges, Peter can't help wondering if Sylvia's fragmented recollections are true memories. Martin's Press.
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