Until the late 1970s, the study of such personal memory was not considered suitable for scientific inquiry. Whatever played across the mind's screen was private and unknowable to the outside world.This lack of knowledge about how memory works made it almost impossible to unravel one of medicine's most vexing questions - the cause of Alzheimer's, an age-related disease affecting more than six million Americans.
But an examination of the latest research, some of it not yet published, shows that, neuron by neuron, scientists are finally making their way into the deepest recesses of human memory. Like the first blurry, black-and-white pictures sent back from the surface of the moon, the view is still imperfect, but memory's secret landscape is slowly being revealed.For example Scientific are now using laser and different type of wire devices to cause regression to the memory.
Science is unlocking many of the mysteries of the brain, but we don’t have all the answers yet. You can do everything “right” and still not prevent Alzheimer’s disease. What’s offered here is the best and most up-to-date information available so that you can make your own decisions about your health.
Mary Joseph Foundati0n
Mary Joseph Foundati0n
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Like so much of life, it's a crap shoot. Drink wine, don't drink--smoke to prevent Parkinsons, die of lung cancer, drink caffeine to ward off Alzheimer's, but watch out for your heart...
How very ironic--for a disease to attack "memory." We know so little of how or why we remember at all. We remember to protect ourselves, for comfort, to learn from.
Even when I walk my dogs, I see them lingering in front of one house or another.
They "remember" a dog lives there. Some dogs they want to fight with--others, they want to play. But just like humans, they long to see "someone" some dog that's "like them," and they have a memory of a furry four-legged creature.
I observed my mother for more than forty years. I'm a writer, and that's what we do--half in our bodies and our minds. I listened --especially in the latter years as her memories began to fall like leaves and I'd gather them for her. Keep them. I observed how her memories changed over the years. Some deepened, took on a new meaning--others dimmed, once important became significant.
It's easier to observe someone else's life than your own.
Memory is subjective, it evolves, and yet it is personally and uniquely ours--until it's not.
~Carol D. O'Dell
Author of Mothering Mother: A Daughter's Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir
available on Amazon
www.mothering-mother.com
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