Transient global amnesia

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I saw this article in today's Guardian, which has possible implications for scientists understanding and ultimately treating Alzheimers.

It has absolutely nothing to do with transgenderism but does have an amazing picture of a fluorescent micrograph of a mouse's hippocampus (part of the brain).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2011/nov/0...

Angharad

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Transient Global Amnesia

So perhaps some of the stories here are so good that readers suffer from Transient Global Amnesia, and forget to comment?

Kris

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Kris

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Fascinating...

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...and actually highly relevant. Many of us suffer from childhood trauma that resulted in repressed if not altogether forgotten memories. As it has been explained to me by both my neurologist and my therapist, the hipocampis (logical/temporal) is able to resume function and 'communicates' with the amygdala (emotional/transient), old painful memories and subsequent painful emotions are mitigated as the memories are integrated safely. My therapy not only includes counseling, but incorporates exercises designed to promote bilateral stimulation, so that the brain begins to form or reform neural pathways as both sides of the brain are stimulated. Thank you for a very enlightening article.


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Andrea Lena

  

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And there is...

...a basis for my plot in "Viewpoints".

More importantly, if it does offer some clues to alzheimer's...