"Remembering My Mother, Forgetting" was a wonderful, intelligent sounding story. Meehan Crist speaks with much background and knowledge on the subject. It is a worry, to me, however that long term memory is said to be not so reliable and the various reasons for this 'fact' are so meticulously laid out in detail, yet we only know "about zero to five percent" about the brain. Is it possible that the explanation that long term memories being memories of the last time we remembered a specific event and that we "won't quite get it right" are wrong? I can remember some specific events in my life back to about 2 and I don't think I am that far off 56 years later.

I found this segment fascinating and have listened to it twice. And will listen again.
I dearly wish I'd been a science nerd and explored childhood memory loss in the very determined way that she has used her mother's brain injury to move into a fascinating field and expand her understand both of her mother's altered state of mind and of the current scientific research into brain function.
I was sixteen when I realized I'd forgotten almost everything about my mother who died when I was twelve. So, I sift over memories of the house where we lived which means, of course, how daunting it is to hear her say that the most recent recall of a memory has already changed, replaced, the previous version. So, all my sifting gets me further away from what I want to know. Again, fascinating. Thank you very much.

Three weeks ago, on NPR in Washington, D.C., I heard your presentation on the pivotal year 1913, as it related to the advent of "modern" art and music. I found it fascinating. Your presentation seemed to say that this program was part of a series, but I did not understand when other episodes would be aired. Did I misunderstand? If not, please advise me as to the other episodes, and when I might hear them.

Thank you,

Carl Noller
Reston, Virginia

Meehan Crist's story about how her mother's handwriting was changed by traumatic brain injury was fascinating. I met a veteran last week who told the same story of new symptoms like this popping up even years after the injury. I am looking forward to the completion of your book Meehan.

Tony Brown |Director
M.D.,PhD,MBA (c) Albert Einstein Virtual Brain Repository
Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation

This was the best show I ever heard. So informative and helpful with my memories and how to deal with them. Thank you and your guests for their sharing themselves with us.