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#204024 - 01/03/12 07:56 PM New Year 2012 [Re: LukeJavan8]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	Sometimes its like this for me......
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#204079 - 01/06/12 07:20 AM Re: New Year 2012 [Re: Candy]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1039 Loc: Lancaster, UK	Count your blessings - for some of us, it's ALWAYS like this! _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#204088 - 01/06/12 08:15 PM Re: New Year 2012 [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11582 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	I just finished the book Still Alice, about a Harvard professor who has early-onset Alzheimer's (age 50). It's quite terrifying; if I didn't love the friend who encouraged me to look it over, I'd throw it at her. I don't read books like this!
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#204094 - 01/07/12 12:34 AM Re: New Year 2012 [Re: Jackie]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	Alzheimers is scary, Jackie.....hopefully all we'll get will be common, everyday forgetfulness
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#204098 - 01/07/12 06:07 AM Re: New Year 2012 [Re: Candy]
Tromboniator addict Registered: 05/10/10 Posts: 693 Loc: Alaska	Without any scientific basis for it, I'd like to think that for many of us it's normal to forget a certain percentage, and that the quantity may increase but the percentage may be steady. I don't like the condescending assumption that I forgot something because I'm old: I've always forgotten stuff I should remember, and I've always been good at remembering stuff nobody else does. The latter just may not always be the most practical.
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#204099 - 01/07/12 06:11 AM Re: New Year 2012 [Re: Candy]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	You are correct Peter...our brain must make room for more information...so it just moves 'stuff' to a place where we forget it. Nothing to do with age.
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#204106 - 01/07/12 05:29 PM Re: New Year 2012 [Re: Candy]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1039 Loc: Lancaster, UK	I agree. I have read (I can't remember where and am too lazy to LIU!) that we never forget, but that, if we do not access stuff we have remembered, we can't find where it is filed in our brain-storage discs when we want it some tomme later.. _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#204129 - 01/09/12 11:30 AM Re: New Year 2012 [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5370 Loc: Land of the Flat Water	A Forgettable Theory from dan.lewis@gmail.com: "Now I Know:That's half the Battle". Most of us have had this happen: You have a list of tasks to do and walk around your home or office, intent on accomplishing them. The first one is easy -- empty a garbage can or grab a document. You do it and quickly move onto the next, but when you exit the room, you can't manage to recall what the other tasks were. Try as you might, you mind draws a blank. But don't blame it on getting older or lack of essential vitamins and nutrients in your diet. There's a much more likely culprit: the doorway you just walked through. In November of 2011, a team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, published a study which suggested that entering and exiting rooms can cause our short term memories to fail us. Their theory: our brains take items in our short term memories and stick them into virtual compartments, with different ideas in different areas -- much like a house or office has different rooms. When we cross through doorways in the physical world, our mental world also passes through what psychology professor and head researcher Gabriel Radvansky calls an "event boundary" -- an action which, in his words, "separates episodes of activity and files them away." Basically, when your body leaves the room, your mind leaves that "to do" list behind. Unfortunately, one simply can't return to the room to pick up this virtual "to do" list. In one of the experiments Radvansky and his team conducted, his test subjects were asked to walk around from room to room only to end up where they began. The full study, published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, is available. _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep----
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#204134 - 01/09/12 10:26 PM Re: New Year 2012 [Re: LukeJavan8]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11582 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Wow! That sounds very similar to Somebody's theory (I'll have to find shanks and ask him again) that it is good for the elderly to stay in familiar surroundings because seeing certain things will remind them of tasks they need to get done, such as eating. I, though, have a different experience from what the Notre Dame people describe: if I physically go or turn back to the area where my previous thought of doing something told me was associated with it, I remember what I'd forgotten. It's not always in a different room, though; but sometimes it is.
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#204144 - 01/10/12 06:03 AM Re: New Year 2012 [Re: Candy]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	Thats exactly what I do, Jackie and it works instantly every time!
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