Do you remember?

Do you remember?
The authors of a recent study published in Neuropsycholgia say they’ve identified a new syndrome characterized by the inability to re-live previous experiences. It sounds a lot like amnesia, but people with this rare condition are otherwise healthy and have no history of brain damage or psychological trauma.

Most of us have no difficulty transporting our thoughts back in time to recall an event. We remember such details as who we were with, what the weather was like, and what clothes we were wearing. This important capacity, called autobiographical re-experiencing, is what helps us construct our life narratives.

Called Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM), the proposed syndrome describes an impaired ability to re-experience the past, particularly as it pertains to episodic — and especially visual — memories.

Paper:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002839321500158X

Full article:
http://io9.com/the-mysterious-syndrome-in-which-healthy-people-cant-re-1708150018

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