Woman miserable because extraordinary memory

Jill Price is a puzzle for researchers on memory, because she can not forget all the events happening every day in his life since age 14.

Jill Price, 42, lives in suburban Los Angesles of America, a nearly perfect memory. She often to The Grill restaurant in the city of Beverly Hills during the past 23 years. "I came here first time on September 20, 1985. Today he is a Friday. I sat with my father at the other table and eat chicken with garlic. My hat is to a team," Jill recalled.

After we made any day in the past, Jill Price would say just the events she has experienced, seen or heard in the day. Her mind many memories of childhood, most days from 9 to 15, and then her memory has not had a space. "From February 5, 1980 I remember it all. It was a Tuesday."

Jill remember all the events recounted the media if she heard them in the past. She can answer without thinking, from the date, the number to a story about events like the French Concorde aircraft crashed when and where, OJ Simpson was arrested on the day or the Gulf War broke out when.

"People told me that she really is amazing, a perfect memory is really great. But it is also very scary, because every bad word, mistake, frustration, all the fear and pain remains currently present in a cruel, "she laughs.

With Jill, time does not heal these wounds. "I do not look past a distance. It can be evoked with the same emotion in every moment, like a movie jumbly never end, I can conquer all . And it does not have an off button. "

The debris memories to offer non-stop movement, automatic and can not control, like an endless round in my head. Sometimes it is something to boot, such as smell, song, words. But memory is often strikes. Numerous images from the past - from beautiful to terrifying, from important to trivial - chasing each other in a confusing "inner screen" of her and sometimes expel completely current.

"All the ones that cause fatigue to the extent not imagine," she confided. The life Jill has more catastrophes such as family conflict, cancer of the mother or sudden death of her husband. Memories sorrow to pursue her repeatedly.

Jill can not find the peace of the soul should depression. Worried that he will play so crazy on 5 / 6 / 2000 (a Monday) she was sitting at the computer and look in Google. She found the name James McGaugh and became a case study for science.

James McGaugh, 76, is the study of one of the leading memory. He founded the Center for Biological neural learning and remembering (Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory) at the University of California. He is the author of more than 500 professional articles and several books.

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