All In The Mind

The impact of memory loss can be utterly profound. We depend on our capacity to remember at every turn - from shopping lists to the names of our children. Brain injury can put a devastating spanner in the works. What memories can be recovered, what must be relearned, and what might be compensated for if you suffer the trauma of brain damage? In Part 3 of this BBC series on the science of memory, some new technologies to aid those with fractured memory. And, the phenomenon of the super-memory - how do memory whizzes do it?

NOTE: No podcast or Real Audio versions of this series are available online, because of BBC copyright. Likewise for Radio Australia listeners. Instead you have the chance to download or listen online to an MP3 of a popular program from our audio archives. Archive Transcript: (Psychedelics on the Mind - Part 2)

Transcript

For copyright reasons no transcript or audio of this program is available. See relevant links and references below, and a link to the BBC's Memory series site, which includes online audio. And check the rest of our archive of transcripts while you're here as well.

Guests

Ruthann Knechel Johansen
Writer, Associate Director of the Arts and Letters Core Course, and concurrent Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies.
University of Notre Dame
http://www.nd.edu/~ndvi/pages/campus_leaders/bios/johansen.html

Dr Fergus Gracey

http://www.ozc.nhs.uk/default.asp?id=

Mark Palmer
Patient at The Oliver Zangwill Centre

Dr Narinder Kapur
Neuropsychologist, Department of Psychology at the University of Southampton

Dominic O'Brien
Memory expert - Seven times World Memory Champion

Barbara Wilson
clinical neuropsychologist
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/clinicalneuro/institute/2003/Faculty2.html#Wilson

Further Information

The full transcript of All in the Mind's interview with Ruthann Johansen

BBC World Service series on Memory
The four BBC programs on memory featured on All in the Mind, with audio.

The Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, UK

The Memory Exhibition at the Exploratorium
The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception, San Francisco.

Brain Injury Association of NSW

Brain Injury Association of Queensland

Brain Injury Association of Tasmania

Headway Victoria - Acquired Brain Injury Association

Brain Injury Network of South Australia

Head Injured Society of Western Australia

Brain Injury Association Australia

The Black Hole
Informative and amusing site for people with head injuries

Publications

Title: Listening In the Silence, Seeing In The Dark: Reconstructing Life After Brain Injury
Author : Ruthann Knechel Johansen
Publisher: University of California Press, 2002
ISBN: 0-520-23114-7