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Unusual amnesia case puzzles doctors until they find brain cyst

Ken Collins KPaulC at email.msn.com
Thu Jul 29 00:37:36 EST 1999


i'm =so SORRY= John.

i'll carry you in my 'heart', and heart, forever.

be at Peace, Gentle, Courageous one.

Sincerely,

ken

John wrote in message <932625091.978208 at server.australia.net.au>...
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>Ken Collins wrote in message ...
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>This is not what I meant, not at all. Okay, I'll try to roll the universe
>into a ball ... . Recently I reread "The Strange, The Familiar, and the
>Forgotten" Israel Rosenfield. I had to reread because after reading a
review
>of it I realised I didn't get it all. His stress on memory function is that
>it relates not so much to information but to meaning, and meaning
>specifically related to the state of the self. Another text I read on this
>lately White Gloves, John Kottre, plays in the same field.
>
>The article suggest the patient has lost his time sense, as if his memory
>has been transported back 11 years. I don't accept this. I can't conceive
>how this can happen. What I suspect has happened is that the patient has
>lost access to many if not most recent memories and upon awakening looking
>for action cues or whatever the brain retrieved what it could and came up
>with the mentioned memories. So I would like to know of other cases and
more
>particularly whether or not the personal importance of these first
recovered
>memories by which the individual seeks to find meaning in the life has been
>established. I would expect that these first recovered memories would have
a
>high personal significance.
>
>Now you know why I need help with this.
>
>
>John
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