Memory

As the smell of vanilla fills the air, you are taken back to your childhood days when your grandmother baked you chocolate chip cookies after school. Maybe she was wearing a bun that day, with a stray patch of flour decorating her hair, or maybe she was wearing her favorite velvet pants that she cla

Where is your car parked? How did you learn the alphabet? What is your name? Memory shapes our existence. Its destruction and loss is something not only heightened with neurodegenerative disease but a battle we all fight daily. Why can you not remember everything you see, hear, smell, or think? ...

To remember numbers, I find the Mnemonic Major System to particularly helpful. Take the following number you need to memorize: 3.14159 Now we use our chart below (the only thing we need to commit to memory) and replace each number with a letter. 0 - s,z 1 - t,d 2 - n 3 - m 4 - r 5 - l 6 - sh,