Memory

Yesterday's post was permeated with the topic of today, memory. The cases of H.M. and Clive Wearing have contributed much to the study and understanding of memory. Although we are still unsure as to how the memory system exactly works. Through the use of the lesion method and other experiemental methods involving animals and scanning techniques, we have been able to uncover a lot about the memory system. Last year I wrote a case report about Zatsesky (sic), a Russian soldier injured in combat who was the protagonist of the book, The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound., by A.R. Luria. In the book, Zatsesky describes relearning how to do everything and how painstaking it is to recognize that he has lost the ability to remember certain things.

How does memory work? How can we enhance memory? How can we forget unwanted memories?

I will attach a paper on learning and memory and tomorrow...
(dial-up internet and blogs don't work to well together)
I will finish more of this too...