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Title: Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research
ISBN: 0307406741
Author:
Sue Halpern
Publicate Date: 2008-05-06
Publish: 2008-05-06
List Price: $24.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: not practically helpful
I hoped this book would be practically helpful for a family member with pretty severe short-term memory problems. It was actually a sort of "travel book" - a tour of scientists who are studying memory problems generally.
This is unfortunate since I had hoped this book would be practically helpful for a family member with pretty severe short-term memory problems. It contained very few useful tips, most of which are already widely publicized, such as drinking red wine (apparently it's the flavanols, like green tea) and aerobic exercise as well as walking (two miles a day in one study, just one and a half hours a week in another) - also ballroom dancing is tops of all leisure activities. Chocolate, because of its flavanols, receives several pages; although it warns that the chocolate should not be processed in the usual way it doesn't suggest which chocolate brands are best - rather irritating but fortunately I have since learned elsewhere that we need to use the raw, organic cacao bean.
More helpful was "The Brain That Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge. One elderly doctor interviewed by the author recommended one of those computer-based programmes with mental exercises scientifically designed to improve memory which he personally had found beneficial and we bought it immediately. It's been a hard slog to get our loved one to use it though (memory problems tend to affect those who don't really use their minds that much - or who take certain types of drugs: read "Lipitor: Thief of Memory " and your blood will run cold).
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2: Interesting but too light
Theis book is about an area of importance to me. It lightly touches some very interesting concepts and ideas, but all too briefly. I was left wanting to know more . Sue needs to put more info in and leave more of the pondering and self-talk out.
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3: Can't remember what I forgot...
Gosh, I did forget what I forgot, I forgot the title of the book. All kidding aside, it's a book for everyone. It is not just for people who have a loved one with Alzheimers. We don't know who will or will not get this horrible disease.
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4: Hard to understand
Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research I am not too pleased with this book because it is so technical. I thought it would be written for the average person, not a professional. I'm still reading it, but it doesn't seem to get any better.
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5: The Brain and investigations in its functioning
The book, Can't Remember What I Forgot, adds to an increasing body of literature on what is being discovered about the brain, its complexity and it's relatively recently recognized plasticity. Sue Halpern has taken it upon herself to investigate some of the recent findings on many of the newer modalities for ensuring retention of what has been learned of cortical functioning. Ms. Halpern embarked on the study as much to report on advances in brain studies as to reduce her own personal anxieties. Nicely written and an interesting read, as a result it is quite engaging for a subject so difficult to comprehend and learn about. This is recommended reading for those with an interest in the brain and its many functions.
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