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"Tidal Lock" by Lindsay Hill is a lyrical and recursive novel that follows a disturbed young woman named Olana as she searches for her absent father. Olana lives in a motel room with her father's wife, who she refers to as "the holder," but doubts her claims of being her mother and her father's death. Olana's reflections and unique way of seeing the world are conveyed through imagistic language, although the story is difficult to follow and underdeveloped. Despite this, Hill demonstrates considerable skill in echoing dreamy diaristic works by Robert Burton and Fernando Pessoa. [Extracted from the article]

"Missing Pieces" is a gripping mystery novel by Kathryn Schleich that explores the story of Maddie Cummins, an attorney who experiences transient global amnesia (TGA) following a traumatic event. As Maddie navigates a high-profile divorce case, she is plagued by eerie visions and nightmares that lead her to uncover a trail of homicides connected to her client's soon-to-be ex. Schleich crafts a fast-paced and suspenseful plot that delves into the unsettling feeling of not trusting one's own mind. This book is recommended for fans of Dylan Young's "Trauma" and Charles Harris's "Room 15." [Extracted from the article]

The clinical features of dementia are usually considered in two groups: cognitive and non-cognitive symptoms. Among cognitive symptoms, problems with memory are typical of most forms of dementia, but problems with language and executive functioning are also prevalent. Non-cognitive symptoms is a somewhat unsatisfactory general term for a group of problems that include mood disorders, psychotic symptoms and various other changes in behaviour. In assessment and management, it is important to look for underlying causes of symptoms and try to understand the perspective of the individual with dementia, because their behaviour may be communicating an important message. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article details the experience of public school teacher Stacia Bissell of suffering from post-concussion amnesia after suffering from a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Topics discussed include the changes to Bissell's activities and behavior following the accident, the various ways a speech-language pathologist (SLP) helped Bissell manage her symptoms and the strategies used by Bissell to remind herself of the tasks she needs to accomplish.

The author reflects on the term, senior moment, an expression used to describe memory loss in the U.S. According to the author, the expression offers light to the partial or total loss of memory that afflicts older people. Moreover, he suspects that the factors influencing amnesia includes high cholesterol and a lack of exercise and stress.

The article presents the author's views on the contentious use of scopolamine in obstetrics and criminal interrogation. The author calls scopolamine the "truth serum," which makes hardened criminals open up and own up to their interrogators. The author refers to Texas obstetrician called Robert House, who took a couple of vials along to the Dallas jail-house in 1922, thus giving rise to the idea of a truth drug. The author informs how in 1963, the US Supreme Court ruled that "serum-induced confession"' amounted to torture due to its severe side-effects. However, obstetricians seem to have carried on using it for a few years more. The author feels that an amnesia drug might still deserve a place in the dispensary, with patients becoming more litigious by the year.

The article offers new briefs related to fluorescing corals, amnesia due to shellfish poisoning, and starfish. Topics include a study, published in the periodical "PLOS One" in 2015, on fluorescence exhibited by corals at mesophotic depths, advisory issued by the California Department of Public Health to avoid consuming recreationally harvested mussels and clams due to risks of amnesia, and the discharge of foreign objects by starfishes, as discovered by University of Southern Denmark students.

The article presents information regarding sleepwalking. Sleepwalking is a parasomnia — an undesirable physical phenomena accompanying delta non rapid eye movement sleep. It is common in childhood where there is always amnesia of the behaviour and is regarded here as developmental, without any pathological significance. In adults it may be a manifestation of an underlying psychological disorder or a psychiatric illness such as dissociative disorder. Although sleepwalking is understood to be a manifestation of rapid eye movement sleep, it's cause is, at present, uncertain. Some authors consider it to be a psychological disorder and advise treating it appropriately, others consider it to be almost normal as nearly everyone will sleepwalk at some time in their life.