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Do I know you? : a faceblind reporter's journey into the science of sight, memory, and imagination
\"Science writer Sadie Dingfelder has always known that she's a little quirky. But while she's made some strange mistakes over the years, it's not until she accosts a stranger in a grocery store (who she thinks is her husband) that she realizes something is amiss. With a mixture of curiosity and dread, Dingfelder starts contacting neuroscientists and lands herself in scores of studies. In the course of her nerdy midlife crisis, she discovers that she is emphatically not neurotypical. She has prosopagnosia (faceblindness), stereoblindness, aphantasia (an inability to create mental imagery), and a condition called Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory. What Dingfelder learns about the brain captivates her. What she learns about the places where her brain falls short forces her to reinterpret major events from her past and grieve for losses she didn't even know she'd had\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Narratives of Desire in Mid-Age Women With and Without Arousal Difficulties
There is controversy about the nature of women's sexual desire. The aim was to explore narrative descriptions of sexual desire among mid-aged women in hopes of clarifying how women define and experience sexual desire, and how these might differ among women with and without female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD). Mid-aged women without (age: M = 45, n = 12) and with (age: M = 55, n = 10) FSAD took part in in-depth interviews that invited them to share personal stories of sexual desire. Women also completed the Brief Index of Sexual Functioning and the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). Women in both groups described sexual desire in genital, non-genital physical, and in cognitive-emotional terms. Although women with FSAD had low ratings of sexual desire on the FSFI, they could recall recent experiences of desire that did not differ from the control group. Women identified a number of triggers of desire including touch, memories, and partner's responses-the latter of which acted as both a trigger and an inhibitor. Women in the control group were more likely to express conflation about the distinction between desire and arousal. Among the different \"objects\" of women's desire, most women acknowledged emotional connection as most important.
Journal Article
Dementia with cardiac problems
Jennifer Bute, a general practitioner, became aware of the first symptoms of dementia and cardiac problems around age 60. Since then, she has experienced episodic memory loss, loss of consciousness, and hallucinations
Journal Article
Herpes simplex virus encephalitis
Darren Egdell developed herpes simplex virus encephalitis 10 years ago, aged 31. He and his father, Raymond, look back at the initial illness and describe his remarkable progress
Journal Article
The Harmony of Illusions
As far back as we know, there have been individuals incapacitated by memories that have filled them with sadness and remorse, fright and horror, or a sense of irreparable loss. Only recently, however, have people tormented with such recollections been diagnosed as suffering from \"post-traumatic stress disorder.\" Here Allan Young traces this malady, particularly as it is suffered by Vietnam veterans, to its beginnings in the emergence of ideas about the unconscious mind and to earlier manifestations of traumatic memory like shell shock or traumatic hysteria. In Young's view, PTSD is not a timeless or universal phenomenon newly discovered. Rather, it is a \"harmony of illusions,\" a cultural product gradually put together by the practices, technologies, and narratives with which it is diagnosed, studied, and treated and by the various interests, institutions, and moral arguments mobilizing these efforts.
This book is part history and part ethnography, and it includes a detailed account of everyday life in the treatment of Vietnam veterans with PTSD. To illustrate his points, Young presents a number of fascinating transcripts of the group therapy and diagnostic sessions that he observed firsthand over a period of two years. Through his comments and the transcripts themselves, the reader becomes familiar with the individual hospital personnel and clients and their struggle to make sense of life after a tragic war. One observes that everyone on the unit is heavily invested in the PTSD diagnosis: boundaries between therapist and patient are as unclear as were the distinctions between victim and victimizer in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
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Anecdote or Evidence?
The APA was convinced that it needed to bolster its position with letters to the FDA from former patients who were satisfied with their treatment. It was aware of the letters pouring in from ex-patients reporting permanent memory loss and cognitive disability. In an effort to neutralize the effect of these reports, Richard Weiner begged for letters in support of ECT from expatients in the APA newspaperPsychiatric News(April 4, 1984), publicly admitting that the majority of letters received by the FDA were anti-reclassification.
Many years later, as the battle between doctors and patients dragged on, he tried again.
Book Chapter
I'll never forget what's-her-name. (memory loss in older people)
As a man of 75, the author finds that his memory sometimes deserts him. He recounts some of his misadventures involving his inability to remember things.
Magazine Article