| Memory has always been
a subject of scientific inquiry. Forget Me Nots
incorporates the voices of neurologist and author Dr.
Oliver Sacks and psychologist and memory researcher
Dr. Daniel Schacter. They guide us through the physical
realities of the brain -- how we remember and how we
forget. Dr. Sacks has worked with a number of extreme
amnesiac patients, some of whom he writes about in his
books The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An
Anthropologist on Mars. Dr. Sacks outlines a philosophical
perspective on memory, describing it as a “time
machine” that gives us the ability to revisit
our pasts at any time. But he also brings to life the
crisis of amnesia. He describes one of his patients
as “isolated in a single moment of being, with
a moat or lacuna of forgetting all round him... He is
a man without a past (or future)... “
Forget Me Nots is currently speaking
with notable memory researchers such as Dr. Daniel Schacter
at Harvard University, Dr. Barry Gordon at Johns Hopkins
and Dr. Mark Gluck at Rutgers University in an effort
to explain the ways that the brain distorts memories,
the mechanisms of forgetting and the complex interrelationships
between emotions and memories, how the brain stores
our memories, and how and why we forget.
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