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Hyperthymesia, also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail.
Jill Price (née Rosenberg, born December 30, 1965) is an American author from Southern California, [1] who has been diagnosed with hyperthymesia.She was the first person to receive such a diagnosis, and it was her case that inspired research into hyperthymesia.
As of April 2016, there are an estimated 61 confirmed cases of hyperthymesia worldwide. Cases of hyperthymesia differ from related cases of savant memory in that savants have an extraordinary memory for specific hobbies, and events of a narrow basis, whereas cases of confirmed hyperthymesia show surprisingly detailed memory for specific and general events.
Brad Williams (born October 8, 1956) is an American man from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin who is considered by scientists to have one of the best memories in the world and one of the only 62 people in the world who has been confirmed by researchers as having a condition called hyperthymestic syndrome. [1]
Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life is a book by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, published in 2017. Lee suffered a stroke at the age of 33. She explains her symptoms, realization, hospital experience, and the recovery process of the incident and trauma.
Recognition memory, a subcategory of explicit memory, is the ability to recognize previously encountered events, objects, or people. [1] When the previously experienced event is reexperienced, this environmental content is matched to stored memory representations, eliciting matching signals. [2]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) Geraldine (Flip Wilson) interviews Dr. David Reuben on The Flip Wilson Show (1971) David R. Reuben (born November 29, 1933) is a psychiatrist, [1] and author. He is most famous for his book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).
Alexithymia, also called emotional blindness, [1] is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, feeling, sourcing, [2] and describing one's emotions.