A patient of mine recently referred me to an article from The New York Times Magazine (February 20, 2011) entitled "Total Recall." The article, written by Joshua Foer, describes his personal journey into competitively participating in memory contests and how he trained his brain to remember huge amounts of information through practice and perseverance. I was impressed, as was he, by the fact that he was a "regular" person with no prior unusual abilities. As a neuropsychologist, I thought if he could improve his memory so radically, then there is great hope for people recovering from brain injuries!
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