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01-Sep-2009
Can Marilyn Monroe or George Clooney Predict Alzheimer's?
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Now you see my memory problem I misspelt remember in my blog,yes I can spell it.but I didn't also I did not notice this until posted it,then it was like a sore thumb.Freudian?may be. My mother had alzheimer's but I think being 79 may have something to do with it.I forgot Marilyn Monroe's name After watching Bus Stop.why? I remember dreams some people dont.but my dreams have meaning.I was on Richard Dawkins website I queried their belief that we all came from one cell They called me all sorts of an idiot .The website was red hot.that night I had a dream,my neighbour had dumped all his rubbish in my garden,symbolic?it was to me.
I am sorry It is a spectacular approach to a normal human funtion memory loss. Strange we can rembember some names and not others some film stars and not others ,I have a simple way of over coming this problem. I have ninety golfing friends names to remember every week. I just imagine crown on the head of George a potty on the head of Jerry A leg of mutton on Jeffs head . long John big Fred and a I never have trouble again,sort of giving my memory a clue.
I agree with Friendma. This type of testing is almost like playing "Trivial Pursuit".... it is predicated on KNOWLEDGE of pop culture and current events rather than on actual brain FUNCTION. Knowledge is self-controlled whereas brain function is not. For a test such as this to be scientifically valid, it should be able to be duplicated. How would you test someone from a different culture? For example, Amish people live in our midst but they do not participate in our culture and would very likely not know the names of pop icons. Like Friendma, I would not recognize many of the faces or names of some of the current heartthrobs, but, for now, my memory is fine. I would label this as "pseudo-science" and is predictive of cultural participation, not purely brain function. A better test would be to show random images and ask the participant to identify a specific type of object, such as a specific geometric shape. Has this "study" been peer reviewed and held up to scientific scrutiny?
I don't have a memory problem but have never been a big movie fan or watched a lot of tv, so putting ME through that kind of test would most likely end up with an incorrect conclusion. My husband couldn't have passed that test 25 years ago when he was healthy! Einstein, probably...Monroe, maybe...Clooney or Spears...not a chance!