Alzheimer's Disease: "Where Has Yesterday Gone"

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by one
estimate 85 percent of the healthy elderly – those over 65—suffer some memory
impairment (59)."
According to Dr. Seligmann, "forgetting is the process through which
information in memory becomes inaccessible, either because it is stored but is
not at that time retrievable (51)." This is one of the most important factors in
forgetting. Memory loss is rapid at first and then gradually levels off. There
are many types of "dismembering" enemies that hamper ones recall and retrieval
system. "Forgetting may be increased by interference from proactive inhibition,
that is material learned beforehand, like trying to remember a soup recipe
(51)."
In remembering stories or events there is a tendency for distortions to
occur. Cutler explains that studies made by Elizabeth Loftus reveal, "what you
learn today may actually distort your memory of what happened to you yesterday. .
. (62)." People tend to remember the events that they regard as the most
important. They attempt to ...

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occur (Hamdy 93). For example, if a person is introduced to a dozen
unfamiliar people at a party, mistakes will be made trying to attach the right
names to proper faces. If a person were to meet one new individual a day for a
dozen days, the chances will be greater of getting the file cards filed out
correctly.
"Misfiling also occurs, and people have trouble locating items in their
memory banks. The more similar two items are, the more likely it is that one of
them will be filed in the place supposedly reserved for the other (Gilling 14)."
All the changes of aging that occur in the brain should not interfere
with everyday living, "as there is ample organ function left to ...

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