Memories

Finding just reading through pages of information on the internet really boring at the moment. So decided to try and find a good documentary on the memory.

Found this one which was really good and useful. Took loads of notes, and I feel inspired again to get on with work. Success!

Main notes taken were:

-Memory is you, it shapes your life

-Experiences make up your life

-Past/future-remembering/imagining

-Memory gives you the ability to plan

-Traumatic memory doesn't fade

-Memories are important for an idea of continuity in time

-Age 20- brain starts to shrink, loses 2% in weight and volume each 10 years

-Age 27- memory begins to fade

-Above 40, brain cells dying off at a rate of almost 10,000 per day

-"A tree with dutch elm disease. dying from the inside out."- quote explaining Alzheimer's disease.