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I didn't know that was a sign!! I also have had that problem.Just a few days ago I stopped a law officer I had met 9 months ago and had seen 3-4 times since and couldn't remember his name. He looked familiar but I could not remember who he was and he was in uniform. I felt so bad about that. Shirley ----------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/ -----Original Message----- From: Leo Fuhr <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 3:39 AM Subject: Re: PMID: 10689058: Understanding memory for faces in PD >Janet posted the article re:understanding memory for faces in PD. I wonder >if that is part of the reason I can never remember people's names unless I >have actually SEEN the name written on a name tag or beside the person's >picture > > This memory is enhanced when I am the one who writes the name by the >picture. It's not that I forget the face.....I just have trouble putting a >NAME with the face. > >Jeanette Fuhr 49/47/44? > >---------- >From: janet marie paterson <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: PMID: 10689058: Understanding memory for faces in PD >Date: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 2:24 AM > >Understanding memory for faces in Parkinson's disease: the role of >configural processing. > >It has previously been reported that unfamiliar face recognition memory is >impaired in Parkinson's disease (PD) [(Dewick, H. C., Hanley, J. R., >Davies, A. D. M., Playfer, J. R. & Turnbull, C. J., Perception and memory >for faces in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia, 1991, 29, 785-802), >(Haeske-Dewick, H. C., Are perception and memory for faces influenced by a >specific age at onset factor in Parkinson's disease? Neuropsychologia, >1996, 34, 315-320), (Levin, B. E., Llabre, M. M. & Weiner, W. J., Cognitive >impairments associated with early Parkinson's disease. Neurology, 1989, 39, >557-561)]. > >In the work reported here, we consider the possible mechanisms that might >underlie this impairment. > >28 PD patients and 28 controls were given a two-part test of recognition >memory for words and faces, and two perceptual tests to measure their >configural and componential processing ability. > >We found that PD patients were significantly worse than controls on the >recognition memory test for faces, but not when the stimuli were words. > >In addition, PD patients were significantly impaired relative to controls >on the closure test (FCT) used to measure configural processing, but there >was no difference between the two groups on a test of componential >processing ability. > >Multiple regression analyses revealed that even after accounting for the >influence of age, intelligence and level of depression, configural >processing ability was the important predictor of unfamiliar face >recognition memory in Parkinson's disease. > >There was no effect of Parkinson's disease specific variables on either >face recognition or FCT performance. > >In addition, some recently diagnosed patients were poor at face >recognition. > >It is suggested that face configuration skills may be affected very early >in the course of Parkinson's disease, and that this may be connected to the >fact that considerable nigrostriatal degeneration and alteration in brain >neurotransmitter levels occur before the clinical symptoms of PD appear. > > >Neuropsychologia 2000 Jun 1;38(6):837-847 >Cousins R, Hanley JR, Davies AD, Turnbull CJ, Playfer JR >Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK > >PMID: 10689058 > >http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=10689058&form=6&db= m >&Dopt=b > >janet paterson >52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset >a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ >613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0