Endless Memory, Part 1
December 19, 2010 5:00 PM
Lesley Stahl reports on the recently discovered phenomenon of "superior autobiographical memory," the ability to recall nearly every day of one's life.
The Gift of Endless Memory
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December 19, 2010 5:00 PM
Lesley Stahl reports on the recently discovered phenomenon of "superior autobiographical memory," the ability to recall nearly every day of one's life.
The Gift of Endless Memory
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See all 29 CommentsSometimes, for some young people, just GROWING UP is a HARD ENOUGH EXPERIENCE without having a "recognizable difference" from other people.
A lot of growing up is "trying to learn how to fit it." - - and - - THAT DID NOT! The people with whom I wished to be friends ALREADY THOUGHT I WAS STRANGE ENOUGH.
NOW I think you should SEARCH for similar young people with what I NOW believe to be a LOST SKILL.
My bad memory has ruined or retarded my life experience, learning ability and earning potentials. I used to work for CBS, but my bad memory ruined my abilities to move forward in the company and several companies. If I had they're memory I know I would be a billionaire several times over - no question. I feel like I have a weird form of life long Alzheimer's disease. Any help? LOL
to see if there are higher than normal levels of the brain enzyme
PKMzeta. As I understand it, this enzyme plays an important role
in long term memory.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
A teacher and masters student of people with autism.
In the 1970s, when he was nearly ninety, he wrote a two-volume autobiography which reads like a novel. A real page-turner, told with great zest and humor, every day of his life unfolds just as it happened, down to details of meals, hotels, what music and exact piano he played at which concert; anyone's name, what they said and did, ad infinitum, going back to his childhood in the 1890s.
And with all this detail, the narrative strands never become tangled or stray. At the beginning of volume one he says:
"I have never kept a diary, and even if I had, it would have been lost with all the rest of my belongings in the two world wars. But, it is my good fortune to be endowed with an uncanny memory which allows me to trace my whole long life almost day by day."
Rubinstein would have fitted right into this story. I'm surprised he wasn't mentioned, even in passing.
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