In Search of Lost Minds

This is a sequence of narratives about forgetfulness that is consequent on brain damage or disease. Forgetting is a great modern problem in a culture that privileges new things over the experience of the past just as it privileges youth over age. So in the histories of those who cannot remember, who have lost contact with their own pasts, are peculiarly modern sufferers. Disease and accident has done to their brains what in far more insidious ways contemporary life is trying to do to us all.?

Living in the 21st Century is a challenge. Few of us escape the relentless demands of modern living; demands that can take such a toll on on our time, energy and minds. So how is it that some people seem to thrive, and others struggle just to survive? Based on terms such as “presence of mind” and “absent mindedness”, this talk debunks some myths about stress and describes a simple, evidenced based solution to ensure that you don’t lose your mind, when those around you may well be losing theirs.