Where did I leave my glasses?
Subtitle: the what, when and why of normal memory loss
By: Martha Weinman Lear
Publisher: JR Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781906217563
Subjects: Mnemonics; Memory; Mental discipline
Description: According to Martha Weinman Lear and the memory experts she taps in the book, the memory lapses that begin in middle age are typically no cause for alarm. In other words: You're normal! In fact, remembering less in later years is rarely a sign of Alzheimer's or any other scary memory-loss condition. It's just a part of normal aging. On her hunt for answers, Lear explores why names are the first things to go and what can be done about it, why we forget certain things on purpose, why we forget more than our parents did, and in which cases our brains are actually doing us a favor by letting go of certain knowledge. Weaving together insight from psychologists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary biologists with anecdotes, Lear explores the whys and wherefores of garden-variety memory loss, and, in the process, offers reassurance and hope to the millions of forgetful baby boomers.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : but first (and before I forget) ...; title: Say hello to Whatsisname : the name problem; title: Multitasking, anyone? : The attention problem; title: Lose some, win some : the upside of forgetting; title: He remembers, she remembers : gender and memory; title: I'm dancing as fast as I can : exercise and memory; title: A meditation on the elephant : the things we never forget; title: It's not ketchup : the varieties of memory; title: Amnesia, Hollywood style : forget it; title: Telling it like it isn't : memory and its deceptions; title: Ouch! That hurts to remember; title: The med student syndrome : this must be Alzheimer's; title: So when isn't it normal? : or, Who hid my keys?; title: You say brain food, I say spinach : diet and memory; title: It's all in the computer. Isn't it?; title: Flashbulb memories : where were you when ...?; title: The big picture : why did this happen (to me), Mr. Darwin?; title: Beyond the Botox generation : memory and tomorrow.