Remembering "The Remember" by Aimee Bender is a short article that touched me deeply after reading it. Annie's unwavering commitment to the relationship after her lover gets lost in memories. In the writing, it can be inferred that Ben's illness is related to memory and intellectual decline. In the first sentence of the story, it is written that "MY LOVER IS experiencing reverse evolution," which describes Ben's condition from a biological perspective, while also arousing readers' curiosity. Similarly, the author compares Ben to an animal, from the depiction of apes, to turtles, then salamanders, and finally to a single-celled organism that can only be seen under a microscope. It is interesting that when Ben was diagnosed, the author did not directly inform the readers of its purpose, but followed this logic to ask the biology …show more content…
It can be seen that the teacher mentioned in the writing may have been referring to the identity switch of a doctor, "According to him, the whole process should take about a year, but from the way things are going, I think we have less than a month left." This seems to be the conclusion given by the "biology teacher" about evolution theory, but also indirectly reflects the severity of Ben's condition. As Annie continued to communicate with her lover, from "Can you understand me" to "Do you remember me," it can be seen that Ben's illness is not far from Alzheimer's disease. This also reminds me of a movie I watched before, "The Father," which tells the story of a father who slowly accepts the changes in his thoughts and reality brought by Alzheimer's disease, but eventually gets trapped in a chaotic timeline and becomes increasingly unaware of the world. This process of change in both thought and
Lisa Genova, the author of Still Alice, a heartbreaking book about a 50-year-old woman's sudden diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. She is a member of the Dementia Advocacy, Support Network International and Dementia USA and is an online columnist for the National Alzheimer's Association. Genova's work with Alzheimer's patients has given her an understanding of the disorder and its affect not only on the patient, but on their friends and family as well (Simon and Schuster, n.d.).
One can almost feel the searing penetration of Lewis Thomas’ analytical eye as it descends the narrow barrel of the microscope and explodes onto a scene of vigorous, animated, interactive little cells—cells inescapably engrossed in relaying messages to one another with every bump and bounce; with every brush of the elbow, lick of the stamp, and click of the mouse…
This theory views the family as a system containing interrelated and interacting parts. Whether something is affecting a family member positively or negatively, all family members are affected by these factors (Mitrani,Feaster, McCabe, Czaja, Szapocznik, 2004). In this case, the Howland family must cope with the vast changes in the cognitive function of their mother Alice. Throughout the film, we see how the impact of Alzheimer’s disease affects the family as a whole. Lydia who lives in California must move back home so that she can take care of her mother while her father is away at his new job. This is an example of how Alice’s Alzheimer’s diagnoses does not only affect her, but also affects Lydia’s life. Another example of how the disease affects the family system is when John and Alice are about to go for a run; Alice advises John that first she must use the bathroom before they part. Sadly Alice does not remember where the bathroom is in the house and she urinates in her
For this paper I read the novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, this novel is told in the span of 25 years, it is told by two characters David and Caroline, who have different lives but are connected through one past decision. The story starts in 1964, when a blizzard happens causing the main character, Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. During the delivery, the son named Paul is fine but the daughter named Phoebe has something wrong with her. The doctor realizes that the daughter has Down syndrome, he is shocked and remembers his own childhood when his sister was always sick, her dying at an early age and how that affected his mother. He didn’t want that to happen to his wife, so David told the nurse to bring Phoebe to an institution, so that his wife wouldn’t suffer.
Hamilton’s psychological perspective of aging seems to be norm for her age. Despite the fact she had two cerebral vascular accidents (strokes), her long-term and short-term memories seemed to be intact. Mrs. Hamilton appropriately answered questions and we reminisced the time when we met for the first time as well as the times we ran into each other at the Arcadia senior center’s educational lectures. Mrs. Hamilton stated she has been experiencing forgetfulness since the strokes and difficulty finding words (aphasia). However, she was able to remember where she wrote my contact number and called me numerous times after our meeting. Mrs. Hamilton was a bookkeeper for her husband’s business and always had outstanding knowledge about investment, finance and businesses aspect of discussion. This is reflective of the Crystallized intelligence which is the information and skills that people have learned through experiences. (Quadagno, 2013, pg.
journey from memories to recovery. Truddi Chase, the patient and author of this work, had
His daily life has been influenced by his memory problem completely, he can remember his wife and play piano, however, he expresses surprise and excitement when his wife leaves him for a few seconds. Herpes simplex encephalitis also destroyed his frontal regions, causing him to have poor emotional processing. He often gets angry and is not able to cope with his emotional expression, especially when he senses that he is forgetting something again. He lives in a township in the UK now, and his wife is the only person who can remember him.
Allie Hamilton accurately depicts that she suffers from dementia. Her husband, Noah, visits her in a nursing home and reads her a book that consists of their memories. She does not recognize him nor remember any events he is reading out to her. She becomes lucid for a moment and remembers that that was the story she had written about how they’d met and instructed him to read it to her
In the film, “The Alzheimer’s Project: The Memory loss tapes” there was an 87-year-old woman with Alzheimer disease named Bessie Knapmiller. It seems as Alzheimer runs in her family because her older sister has the same disease. Bessie sister is 93 years old and she has lost her entire memory. Bessie sister does not even remember their family members. However, Bessie stage of Alzheimer is not as bad as her sister, she still drives and still remembers people. At times, Bessie does forget others. Bessie went to take a memory test in May and few months later, when she returned she did not remember her doctor or him giving her the exam. When Bessie took her first memory test she could not remember the previous president before George Bush. She
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Ben is one of the main characters in the movie. It all started with the class going to a
The One Memory of Flora Banks is a fiction book written by Emily Barr about this 17-year-old woman who has a terrible memory. Flora had a brain tumor removed when she was about 10-years-old, but when this tumor was removed, part of her brain that holds the long and short term memory was removed in the process, causing her anterograde amnesia. Flora only remembers concepts for about an hour or so and then forgets them. To remind herself what happens during the day, she has to write herself notes on her wrist.
Mykenzie Moyle Ms. Douglass English I, P.4 16 May 2014 Research Paper Alzheimer’s Disease is formed in the brain but, yet, has no known cure or treatment. Alzheimer’s disease has many symptoms. Memory is the biggest symptom along with mood swings and having a hard time keeping up with a conversation. A patient with Alzheimer’s goes through 7 stages; The first stage, which is misplacing things or forgetting what something is used for, second stage, they start losing more of their memory and they begin to forget where they are or what they are doing, the third, fourth and fifth begin to mentally decline and need someone to take care of them and worsen over time.
Through the use of the microscope and the discovery of DNA, there were many advances in anatomy and physiology throughout the twentieth century to the present time. However, the early discoveries by Erasistratus and Herophilus as well as the others created a foundation for the future scientists to base their research off of, which impacted where we are today in the field and contributed to the great advances that have been made in anatomy and physiology.