Dear Martha
You wrote before about this memory phenomenon. I have heard some others telling
in essentials the same. One is a man who suffered from life threatening
encephalitis, he was weeks in coma, but after that could tell he had remembered
things from his childhood with very much detail which as far as he could check
were right. The scenes he rembered were threatening a.o. being assaulted by a
dog.
A child psychiatrist told that sometimes psychotic children could remember
visual details from their first months of life.
In books on Neurology the story about the neurosurgeon Pribram is often told.
Pribram did neurosurgery with conscious patients. By being stimulated in a
defined area in the temporal lobe they could describe scenes from their life in
all details that normally can't be remembered. The meds had for Neal possibly a
analogous stimulating effect.
Some parallel with the situation of a Parkinson patient is that we too have no
access to certain programs for motoric skills that seem not to be destroyed but
that we can't reach and use any more.
Ida Kamphuis
> I am convinced that nothing that happens to us is forgotten. It is stored
> somewhere in those trillions of brain cells. I came to this conclusion after
> numerous nightime sessions when I listened to my sleeping husband (a retired
> teacher)re-live entire class sessions that had taken place twenty-five or
> more years earlier. These recreations included all of the vocal intonations,
> little coughs or chuckles, and pauses when students were talking, followed by
> his answers. I assumed his brain was undergoing some spring cleaning. Even
> stranger, his voice was what it used to be before advancing PD weakened it.
> Recently this has ceased, but it was eerie while it lasted.
>
> Martha Rohrer (CG for Neal, 77/12)
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