Book: Remember
Author: Lisa Genova
Pages: 272
This is my 185th read for the year
Lisa Genova is a neuroscientist turned author, and she uses this non-fiction book to delve into how memories are made and how we retrieve them. She describes the distrinction between dementia, alzheimers, and just a "lapse in memory". She discusses how memory is affected by diet and exercise, sleep and age. She then gives tips and tricks to help improve your memory and what really works and what is just a myth.
This was a fantastic book. I like Genova's fictional books and this one was no different. She is a Harvard trained neuroscientist and she uses clear and understandable language to talk through how memory works. The conclusion for me is that most lapses in memory are completely normal and there are things you do without even realizing it that makes you feel like you have a bad memory. Forgot where you parked your car? You probably never took a second to calculate where the car was in the first time, so when you don't form a memory, of course you cannot remember it. It was fascinating and enlightening, and I encourage you to read it. Especially if you are in the second half of your life.
Stars: 5
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