The Perpetual Now
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Michael Lemenick's 'The Perpetual Now' tells the story of Lonni Sue Johnson, an artist whose hippocampal damage from viral encephalitis left her unable to form new memories.
The book reconstructs her life through interviews with family and friends, contrasting her prior expertise with her post-illness present-focused existence.
It examines what her preserved abilities, like playing the viola and creating art, reveal about different memory systems in the brain.
Lemenick situates Johnson's case alongside classic amnesia research to explore how memory and identity are formed.
The book aims to make neuroscience accessible while highlighting the human story behind clinical cases of memory loss.
The book reconstructs her life through interviews with family and friends, contrasting her prior expertise with her post-illness present-focused existence.
It examines what her preserved abilities, like playing the viola and creating art, reveal about different memory systems in the brain.
Lemenick situates Johnson's case alongside classic amnesia research to explore how memory and identity are formed.
The book aims to make neuroscience accessible while highlighting the human story behind clinical cases of memory loss.
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