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Couldn't sleep!

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Couldn't sleep so finished writing an article on Medium about Depression and the memory palace technique.

For anyone interested, the article can be found here: https://binary939.medium.com/depression-and-the-memory-palace-74ebc409edec

I always enjoy writing about the Method of Loci technique, especially when it comes to using it to learn new information. This will be especially useful now that I'm offically a student with the OU.

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Hallucinations and neuropsychology

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A potential result of failing eyesight is the peculiar condition, Charles Bonnet Syndrome.

This syndrome is marked by hallucinations which can be incredibly varied. For some, the hallucinations entail some rudimentary geometric shapes whereas for others it might involve sophisticated images comprised of people.

One risk according to one of Oliver Sacks' books is that this may be confused with dementia and thus Charles Bonnet Syndrome must be considered when reported hallucinations occur within a geriatric population.
What is Charles Bonnet syndrome, the eye condition that causes hallucinations?

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Prosopagnosia and Neurology

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A wonderfully inciteful article on face blindness. I first came across this interesting condition by reading the works of Sacks. This piece captures how crucial the social ability to recongise other people truly is.

Prosopagnosia or face blindness is a problem with how the brain processes faces rather than the eyes. This strange ailment causes the sufferer to forget faces, as if they cannot store the collected details of a face and thus while they don't forget the person they can't remember the face.

Certain coping mechanisms are used, such as trying to remember a beard or glasses or any other details that might aid the sufferer in remembering the individual.

Sacks describes these coping mechanisms with his own conversation of how he suffered with prosopagnosia.

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