Dementia: no new memories

In an extract from his new book, Oliver James explains how we store memories in our mental photograph album.

Penny Garner uses the analogy of a photograph album to illustrate her view of how memory works and to explain why dementia is so frightening to the sufferer. Think of this imaginary album as the place where each new memory is stored. The photographs at the beginning are the oldest, those towards the back are the recent additions.  Link to read more…..

Source : Telegraph, July 28, 2008

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