Study is fun

I had forgotten how much fun studying is - mind you this is only the early stages and am sure it will get more challenging as I go on.

I managed to do some study during my lunch break. It was a welcome break from the pressure of work which was horrendous today.

Its good to see how the course material is set out to me easily usable by almost anyone.You don't realise how much information you take for granted that you know - and assume everyone will know. It was when I saw a note explaining what 'et al' meant that I realised not everyone would know. It just highlights the different backgrounds of my fellow students. I do hope I get the chance to meet some of them.

I found the material I read today interesting. Memory is an emotive topic for me after seeing how losing her memory affected Edna so badly. I am trying to relate what I leraned today abut the different types of memory (episodic, semantic and procedural) to how Edna's memory went. She could recall past events in her life (episodic) but had problems remembering how to do things (procedural) . But her episodic memory WAS affected because she couldn't remember recent events. So even those divisions of memory must be subdivided somehow. She had a reasonable memory for facts - so I geuss her semantic memory wasn't effected too much. It will be interesting to see if I get any further insights into her dementia by wnat I learn on this course.

The stuff on patients with divided brains was interesting. I have always known the left and right brains were different - but reading about how patients with divided brains cannot do something if they just see it with ONE eye because the message only gets to one side of the brain.

I always knew the brain was immensely powerful - I wanted to do this course to explore how powerful it is -but I am beggining to realise how much more complex it is than I ever thought.

This course is SO right for me