The current issue of Chemical & Engineering News contains a series of articles by Sophie L. Rovner on memory:
- Hold that thought is a comprehensive piece about what is known of the cellular and biochemical bases of memory formation.
- Molecules for memory discusses the ethical issues regarding memory-enhancing drugs being developed by several pharmaceuticals companies.
- The well-endowed mind considers what studies of knockout mice tell us about variations in human memory performance.
- Memory at its worst looks at how highly emotional memories can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
- Sleep anchors memory: on the role of sleep in memory consolidation.
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I was living in Manhattan on 9/11. I can vividly recall the horrifying details of the day. I can still smell the acrid odor of burnt plastic and the pall of oily smoke and the feeling of disbelief, the sense that history had just pivoted in a tragic direction.
September 11. The Challenger disaster. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. If we were over the age of 10 when these events occurred, we all remember them vividly: where we were when we heard the news, the weather that day, how we felt.
To enhance any system, one first needs to identify its capacity-limiting factor(s).
Think, for a moment, about one of your cherished childhood memories, one of those sepia-tinged recollections that you've repeated countless times. I've got some bad news: big chunks of that memory are almost certainly not true.