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Memory Slips

Author : Linda K. Cutting
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060928794

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"There are three kinds of memory slips, I tell my students. One, when Memory slips but you find your way back without losing a beat. Two, when you don't find your way back until the downbeat. Three, when you don't find your way back in time and must stop and restart the music. I don't tell them about a fourth possibility , when one memory slips, another intrudes and you don't find your way back for a very long time." -- from Memory Slips Linda Katherine Cutting's memoir of family and music movingly portrays the trauma and recovery of a woman whose childhood was betrayed by those who were supposed to protect her. In exquisite prose she illuminates the inner life of a child for whom the gift of music was the only refuge, a refuge that protected her as long as it could. For when Linda began to remember what her father had done to her and her brothers -- both eventual suicides -- she stopped being able to remember Beethoven's notes. Linda Cutting's writing bears witness to what had occurred. Her stunning "Hers" column, originally printed in the New York Times Sunday Magazine in October 1993, was clipped and carried in wallets and pocketbooks and reprinted around the world. Now, her memoir Memory Slips, will not only reach out and give voice to victims of abuse but also move anyone who cares about the power of writing, the beauty of music and the innocence of children. "In her writing, Linda Cutting displays the same grace, thoughtfulness and talent that she's always brought to her music-making. With courageous candor, Linda has shone light into the darker corners of her own compelling life, and we, the readers, are richer for it." --John Williams, Academy Award-winning composer and conductor laureate, The Boston Pops Orchestra "This is a mesmerizing story about the loss of music and innocence and -- very nearly -- the self; and the subsequent recovery of all those things. It is testimony to the power of Linda Cutting's writing that the same book that tears at your heart can, in the end, make it rise up with gladness." --Elizabeth Berg, author of Talk Before Sleep, Range of Motion and The Pull of the Moon

Memory Loss, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia

Author : Andrew E. Budson,Paul R. Solomon
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323316101

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Memory Loss, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia by Andrew E. Budson,Paul R. Solomon Pdf

Now presented in full color, this updated edition of Memory Loss, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia is designed as a practical guide for clinicians that delivers the latest treatment approaches and research findings for dementia and related illnesses. Drs. Budson and Solomon — both key leaders in the field — cover the essentials of physical and cognitive examinations and laboratory and imaging studies, giving you the tools you need to consistently make accurate diagnoses in this rapidly growing area. Access in-depth coverage of clinically useful diagnostic tests and the latest treatment approaches. Detailed case studies facilitate the management of both common and uncommon conditions. Comprehensive coverage of hot topics such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, in addition to new criteria on vascular dementia and vascular cognitive impairment. Includes new National Institute on Aging–Alzheimer's Association and DSM-5 criteria for Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Learn how to use new diagnostic tests, such as the amyloid imaging scans florbetapir (Amyvid), flutemetamol (Vizamyl), and florbetaben (Neuraceq), which can display amyloid plaques in the living brains of patients. Updated case studies, many complete with videos illustrating common tests, clinical signs, and diagnostic features, are now incorporated into the main text as clinical vignettes for all major disorders. Brand-new chapters on how to approach the differential diagnosis and on primary progressive aphasia. Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, references, and videos from the book on a variety of devices.

A Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss

Author : Prudence Twigg,Sandy Burgener
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1846427193

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A Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss by Prudence Twigg,Sandy Burgener Pdf

Memory loss can create problems in every aspect of a person's life. The challenge of communicating thoughts and feelings can be made even harder by other people's negative perceptions of dementia. This book provides practical guidance for coping with progressive memory loss, and includes examples of real people who have faced similar challenges. These stories highlight both good and bad ways to deal with the problems that arise, and are also useful for describing the experiences of memory loss to friends and family. The authors suggest ways of maintaining physical and mental health by staying active and engaged in society. They also offer techniques for improving communication, preserving self-esteem and overcoming the stigma associated with memory loss. A Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss offers inspiration and advice for anyone in the early stages of dementia. It also provides useful insight for family and friends who wish to offer support for a loved one affected by progressive memory loss.

Neural Plasticity and Memory

Author : Federico Bermudez-Rattoni
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1420008412

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A comprehensive, multidisciplinary review, Neural Plasticity and Memory: From Genes to Brain Imaging provides an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the study of the neurobiology of memory. Leading specialists share their scientific experience in the field, covering a wide range of topics where molecular, genetic, behavioral, and brain imaging techniques have been used to investigate how cellular and brain circuits may be modified by experience. In each chapter, researchers present findings and explain their innovative methodologies. The book begins by introducing key issues and providing a historical overview of the field of memory consolidation. The following chapters review the putative genetic and molecular mechanisms of cell plasticity, elaborating on how experience could induce gene and protein expression and describing their role in synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation. They explore how putative modifications of brain circuits and synaptic elements through experience can become relatively permanent and hence improve brain function. Interdisciplinary reviews focus on how nerve cell circuitry, molecular expression, neurotransmitter release, and electrical activity are modified during the acquisition and consolidation of long-term memory. The book also covers receptor activation/deactivation by different neurotransmitters that enable the intracellular activation of second messengers during memory formation. It concludes with a summary of current research on the modulation and regulation that different neurotransmitters and stress hormones have on formation and consolidation of memory.

Memory Loss

Author : Andrew E. Budson,Paul R. Solomon
Publisher : Saunders
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1416035974

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Budson (geriatrics and neurology, Harvard U.) and Solomon (psychology and neuroscience, Williams College, Massachusetts) offer generalist and specialist, student and veteran clinicians a guide to caring for people with memory loss from Alzheimer's disease or other causes. They cover evaluating the patient with memory loss, differential diagnosis of memory loss, treating memory loss, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, additional issues, and case studies. Among specific topics are mild cognitive impairment, normal pressure hydrocephalus, cholinesterase inhibitors, caring for and educating the caregiver, and legal and financial issues. Appendices with technical material are available online. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Emerson's Memory Loss

Author : Christopher Hanlon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190842529

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Introduction: Recalling Emerson -- Emerson's memory loss -- Knowing by heart -- Streams of thought -- Coda: Inside information

Why Can't I Remember?

Author : Pavel Yutsis,Lynda Toth
Publisher : Avery Publishing Group
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0895298414

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Why Can't I Remember? by Pavel Yutsis,Lynda Toth Pdf

A guide to the remarkable supplements, therapies, and lifestyle changes that can help us remember.

Forgetting

Author : Scott A. Small
Publisher : Crown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780593136195

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“Fascinating and useful . . . The distinguished memory researcher Scott A. Small explains why forgetfulness is not only normal but also beneficial.”—Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of The Code Breaker and Leonardo da Vinci Who wouldn’t want a better memory? Dr. Scott Small has dedicated his career to understanding why memory forsakes us. As director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia University, he focuses largely on patients who experience pathological forgetting, and it is in contrast to their suffering that normal forgetting, which we experience every day, appears in sharp relief. Until recently, most everyone—memory scientists included—believed that forgetting served no purpose. But new research in psychology, neurobiology, medicine, and computer science tells a different story. Forgetting is not a failure of our minds. It’s not even a benign glitch. It is, in fact, good for us—and, alongside memory, it is a required function for our minds to work best. Forgetting benefits our cognitive and creative abilities, emotional well-being, and even our personal and societal health. As frustrating as a typical lapse can be, it’s precisely what opens up our minds to making better decisions, experiencing joy and relationships, and flourishing artistically. From studies of bonobos in the wild to visits with the iconic painter Jasper Johns and the renowned decision-making expert Daniel Kahneman, Small looks across disciplines to put new scientific findings into illuminating context while also revealing groundbreaking developments about Alzheimer’s disease. The next time you forget where you left your keys, remember that a little forgetting does a lot of good.

List It! Activity Book for Dementia Patients

Author : Dementia Activity Studio
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1070575844

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List it! Activity book for dementia patients is an anti memory loss activity book for the elderly and is developed specifically for those suffering from Dementia and Alzheimers, or other elderly citizens who may be showing signs of memory loss. Unlike other elderly activity books, these pages are tailored for those at all stages of dementia. With no complex activities, and the use of simple memory recall activities that encourage the appropriate mental patterns required for memory stability. Each page is timed and counted, which allows carers to clearly see process from the start of the book to the end of the book. Although pages are not ranked in order of complexity, the repetition of pages throughout the book will allow clear patterns of improvement to be observed by family, friends and carers. The dementia activity book was developed from insights given by neurologists, psychologists, caregivers and dementia and alzheimers patients, to only contain what is proven to work. It is recommended that a schedule is developed with these activities, to provide further structure to the task. This may be one page a day, one each morning and night, or a number each day for consecutive days. Book Features: - 50 individual tasks - Simple recall questions for reduced stress - Memory loss and recall functionality

39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss

Author : Tom Davis
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555849160

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A memoir from the Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live writer that is “funny, spiky, and twistedly entertaining” (Entertainment Weekly). 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny and irreverent memoir that gives an insider’s view of the birth and rise of Saturday Night Live, and features laugh-out-loud stories about some of its greatest personalities—Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O’Donoghue, and Chris Farley. Tom Davis’s voice is rich with irony and understatement as he tells tales of discovery, triumph, and loss with relentless humor. His memoir describes not only his experiences on the set of SNL but also his suburban childhood, his high school escapades in the sixties, his discovery of sex, and how he reveled in the hippie culture—and psychoactive drugs—from San Francisco to Kathmandu to Burning Man over the last four decades. Hysterical, lucid, and wise, 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is an unforgettable romp in an era of sex, drugs, and comedy. “Though it features some lurid and hysterical SNL stories, Davis’s memoir is less a backstage expose than a winning coming-of-age story featuring a funny Midwestern kid following his unlikely dream to the top.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

A Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss

Author : Sandy Burgener,Prudence Twigg
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781843108634

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A Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss by Sandy Burgener,Prudence Twigg Pdf

This book provides practical guidance for coping with progressive memory loss, and includes examples of real people who have faced similar challenges. These stories highlight both good and bad ways to deal with the problems that arise, and are also useful for describing the experiences of memory loss to friends and family.

Let's Look Together

Author : Rae-Lynn Cebul Ziegler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1932529519

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Research demonstrates that sensory integration in the brain reinforces and excites neural connections. Using the principles of sensory integration, occupational therapist Rae-Lynn Ziegler presents photographs that trigger multiple and varied sensory reactions: visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, and vestibular and proprioceptive (motion and movement). Tested with people with middle to late Alzheimer s disease, Ziegler's work demonstrates that spending time with an interactive picture book can help keep people with memory loss connected and engaged.

Reversing Memory Loss

Author : Vernon H. Mark,J. Paul Mark
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-18
Category : Memory
ISBN : 039594452X

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Written with warmth and clarity, this book belongs in the hands of anyone who has agonized over an aging friend or relative or worries about his own capacity to remember. No physical problem is as destructive or frightening as the loss of memory. Stress, pain, depression, overmedication, stroke, or Alzheimer's disease -- these are just some of the causes. In this fully revised and updated book, an internationally known neurosurgeon and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital outlines the latest treatments that help reverse memory loss: New forms of memory recently discovered by researchers, new tests to evaluate memory capacity, new research on the effects of prescription medications, including widely used antidepressants, and brain "poisons", new research on the important role of nutrition and exercise in promoting memory, advances in early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's, and promising new research on the regeneration of damaged brain cells.

Memory Slips

Author : Linda Katherine Cutting
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Adult child sexual abuse victims
ISBN : UCSC:32106012839368

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Memory Slips by Linda Katherine Cutting Pdf

Linda Katherine Cutting's memoir of family and music movingly portrays the trauma and recovery of a woman whose childhood was betrayed by those who were supposed to protect her. In exquisite prose she illuminates the inner life of a child for whom the gift of music was the only refuge, a refuge that protected her as long as it could. For when Linda began to remember what her father had done to her and her brothers - both eventual suicides - she stopped being able to remember Beethoven's notes. Linda Cutting's writing bears witness to what had occurred. Her stunning "Hers" column, originally published in the New York Times Magazine in October 1993, was clipped and carried in wallets and pocketbooks and reprinted around the world. Now her memoir, Memory Slips, will not only reach out and give voice to victims of abuse but also move anyone who cares about the power of writing, the beauty of music, and the innocence of children.

Memory Loss

Author : Dr Bruce Miller
Publisher : Oak Publication Sdn Bhd
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9789832106241

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Are you having trouble remembering things like birthdays, client's names and phone numbers or where you placed your car keys? Isn't forgetfulness a sign that age is creeping up on you? Wait! You're only 40. Memory loss causes us to lose our personality, our enjoyment of life and our social acceptability. Is there anything you can do to stop the slide into forgetfulness, and memory loss? Yes, growing older does not mean that you have to experience memory loss. If you can take care of your brain just like you do to your heart by feeding it with the right food and nutrients, giving it enough rest and giving it proper medical care and without abusing it, there is no reason why your brain cannot serve you well into your twilight years. This book is filled with practical information on how you can keep your memory intact against the ravages of time. This is a must read book if you are interested in preventing age memory loss and other mental functions as well as possible for as long as possible. Act now if you think you are beginning to lose your memory. Preventing mental decline is much easier than reversing it!