Hello,
I apologise if this posting is not appropriate, but having been made aware of Terry's plight (and been a fan of his novels for many years), and also having my eyes opened to Alzheimer's thanks to Terry's publicizing of the situation, I have attuned my personal radar to any tidbits of info that might benefit this condition.
I have seen just today on the news a lady named Jill Price interviewed about her recent book "The woman who can't forget", which explores her medical condition known as "hyperthymestic syndrome". It seems to me that Alzheimer's is a condition whereby there is no choice but to lose memories which are 'edited' by the brain and deleted from the knowledge-base. In Ms. Price, there is the exact opposite : A condition whereby the editing function is simply not present, and every experience of every day since she was 14 is indelibly burned into her mind.
Consequently, I wondered if the Alzeimer's research Terry is attempting to kick into activation would benefit from the data accumulated by the medical team who have been studying Ms Price, as there would seem to be an opportunity to accelerate the investigation into Alzheimer's by seeing things from the opposite end of the spectrum. Instead of looking for simply what is missing from the Alzheimer brain, I suspect the medical investigation could combine that data with what is 'present' in the hyperthymestic brain and use a non-afflicted brain as a 'control' against which to assess the data.
I hope that this information is of some benefit to Terry and all the others who suffer, and that if not in these pages, the information comes to him through other sources as quickly as possible.
My best wishes to all,
Marc
I apologise if this posting is not appropriate, but having been made aware of Terry's plight (and been a fan of his novels for many years), and also having my eyes opened to Alzheimer's thanks to Terry's publicizing of the situation, I have attuned my personal radar to any tidbits of info that might benefit this condition.
I have seen just today on the news a lady named Jill Price interviewed about her recent book "The woman who can't forget", which explores her medical condition known as "hyperthymestic syndrome". It seems to me that Alzheimer's is a condition whereby there is no choice but to lose memories which are 'edited' by the brain and deleted from the knowledge-base. In Ms. Price, there is the exact opposite : A condition whereby the editing function is simply not present, and every experience of every day since she was 14 is indelibly burned into her mind.
Consequently, I wondered if the Alzeimer's research Terry is attempting to kick into activation would benefit from the data accumulated by the medical team who have been studying Ms Price, as there would seem to be an opportunity to accelerate the investigation into Alzheimer's by seeing things from the opposite end of the spectrum. Instead of looking for simply what is missing from the Alzheimer brain, I suspect the medical investigation could combine that data with what is 'present' in the hyperthymestic brain and use a non-afflicted brain as a 'control' against which to assess the data.
I hope that this information is of some benefit to Terry and all the others who suffer, and that if not in these pages, the information comes to him through other sources as quickly as possible.
My best wishes to all,
Marc