What ’s it like to lose your short-term memory?

Our editor’s pick of this week’s 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: What’s It Like To Lose Your Short-term Memory? Longreads hosts an exclusive excerpt from Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life, the forthcoming memoir by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee. Sex Differences in Brain Size Next time someone asks you “Are men and women’s brains different?”, you can answer, without hesitation, “Yes”, says Tom Stafford at Mind Hacks. The King of Dreams BBC Radio 4 documentary about lucid dreaming. In fin de siècle Paris a shy young aristocrat, the Marquis Leon d’Hervey taught himself how to control his own dreams and wrote a book detailing years of his nocturnal adventures. In ‘King of Dreams’ Professor Alice Roberts learns how to advance her own skills in lucid dreaming and finds out why the work of the Marquis is inspiring neuroscientists and psychologists today. Total Recall: The People Who Never Forget An extremely rare condition may transform our understanding of memory by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie for The Guardian. Revealed: Britain’s Mental Health Crisis Latest episode of BBC One’s Panorama (now on iPlayer): One month after prime minister Theresa May promised to ‘transform the way we deal with mental health problems right across society’, reporter Sophie Hutchinson investigates the troubled state of NHS mental health services. A Neuroscientist Explains: The Need for ...
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