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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Become Certainty Confidence Experience Forgotten Idea Later Like Lost Me Mindless Moment My Self Part Remember Self Story Thought Through Will

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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?

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Topics: Ever Fade Home Memories Really Return

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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: About Affected After Also Assault Brain Brought Case Central Certain Condition Damage Dementia Disorder Emotional Intellectual Nervous Nervous System Organic Out Processes Symptom System Tissue Viral Wiped

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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.

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Topics: Been Deepening Extending Her Observant Often Playful Poetry Publishing Range Some Voice Years

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I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Alzheimer Associated Became Common Demented Dementia Disease Distinguishes Factor Form More Overnight Sudden

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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: About Art Artist Doing Fiber Found Gave Helping Her Just Language Married Me Musician Painter Reading Seeing She Speak Understand Which Wife Work Worked

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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

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Topics: Cannot Clinical Host Observe Patient Tests Them

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A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Area Behavioral Being Brain Different Different Areas Essentially Hears Labeled Laboratory Lights Location New Organic Oxygen Person Revealing Sees Speaks Specific Technique Up Uses Words

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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

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Topics: Able Brain Connected Function Had Me Mind Quickness Spark Think Used Well Were World

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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Been Cerebral Fit Gray Inside Instead Large Matter Mit Riddled Sheet Skull Steven Tissue Up Whole

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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