Memory loss

Memory and personal identity are an integral part of our lives. These characteristics and traits assist us in the way we make decisions and approach situations. Memory in relation to personal identity is a topic that has been studied by several Philosophers. The question of whether or not memory presupposes identity is a circular one, and therefore makes this question important. To study this, I looked at Parfits theory of Psychological continuity, and how it was seen as problematic due to its…

effects brain memory and also brain function. This happens because the brain cells slowly begin to die off. Normally when our brain cells die off, new ones take their place. For Alzheimer’s patients this is not the case. The dead cells are never replaced by new ones. This is what causes the memory loss and the loss of brain function. Most of the time Alzheimer’s patients will remember long past memories but not short term memories. Alzheimer’s disease isn’t just about the memory loss and loss of…

shortage in memory caused by damage in the brain. The person with amnesia won’t be able to remember certain things. The extent of the damage determines whether the memory is fully or partially lost. Though having no sense of who you are is a common plot device in movies and television, real-life amnesia generally doesn't cause a loss of self-identity. Instead, people with amnesia are usually aware and know who they are, but may have trouble learning new information and forming new memories, or…

love and loss, but these stories that on the surface may seem miscellaneous, at the same time they all point back to a metaphorical idea of curation.…

individuals with dementia or other memory impairments strategies so as to better to remember important information. Recalling an answer over increasing intervals of time, such as 1 minute, 2 minutes, 8 minutes, etc., helps to reinforce the information in a person’s memory. These types of trainings often take place two or more times per week which can be costly and inconvenient for the patient. Dementia is not one specific disease. It is a general term for loss of memory and other mental…

Memory is the act of remembering. It is a conscious thought or recollection of experiences. Retrieving memory is not as simple process. “Rather, the remembering subject actively creates the meaning of the past in the act of remembering. Thus, narrated memory is an interpretation of a past that can never be full recovered.” (Smith) If a recounted memory is never going to be exact interpretation of the past, then memory is an intangible quality that can be explain through a number of ways. For…

The Resurrecting Power of Stories The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a fictional story that exhibits love, loss, war, coming-of-age, innocence, and so much more. O’Brien explores all of these themes through an even bigger topic: storytelling. He also inversely picks apart the various aspects of storytelling via the smaller themes. One of the products of this analysis that I find to be most intriguing is the resurrecting power of stories. O’Brien asserts that stories have the capability…

self-physical endangerment. Many sleep disorders affect the amount of time one sleeps, leaving one in a sleep debt or simply completely sleep deprived. This affects can affect reaction times, memory, emotional state, and safety. Stress, work, time management, genetics, diet, illness, and medications all play a role in the loss of sleep. This can affect anyone around the world and actually does affects half of adults over the age of 65. Sleep disorders are widely underreported in younger age…

the most important thing of all, your memory. Your memory is what allows you to remember how to brush your teeth, speak, or experience emotions. The cerebrum, the largest part of the brain, is where the short term memory is stored. It is not stored all in one place. It is stored among the four lobes of the brain: the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobe. These lobes all have different functions and jobs. Depending on what type of short term memory it is, it will have gone to one of…

life reflect a greater effort of the Dominican people trying to separate themselves from the Trujillo legacy through forgetting and selective memory. Beli, “Embraced the amnesia that was so common throughout the Islands, five parts denial, five parts negative hallucination” (Diaz 259). As Monica Hanna states, “Forgetting is a seductive prospect when memory seems only to recall pain, but this consistently proves to be a very dangerous choice” (506). Rather than dealing with the pain of a violent…