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Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother-daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease twenty years later. In 1986, Kathleen accepted a three-year teaching assignment in Uganda, after a devastating civil war, and Geeske promised to be her daughter's most faithful correspondent. The two women exchanged more than two hundred letters that reflected their lively interest in literature, theology, and politics, and explored ideas about identity, belonging, and home in the context of cross-cultural challenges. Two decades later, with Geeske increasingly beset by Alzheimer's disease, Kathleen returned to the letters, where she rediscovered the evocative image of a tiny, bright meadow bird perched precariously on a blade of elephant grass. That image - of simultaneous tension, fragility, power, and resilience - sustained her over the years that she used the letters as memory prompts in a larger strategy to keep her intellectually gifted mother alive. Deftly woven of excerpts from their correspondence, conversations, journal entries, and email updates, Bird-Bent Grass is a complex and moving exploration of memory, illness, and immigration; friendship, conflict, resilience, and forgiveness; cross-cultural communication, the ethics of international development, and letter-writing as a technology of intimacy. Throughout, it reflects on the imperative and fleeting business of being alive and loving others while they're ours to hold.

Mothers and daughters --- Alzheimer's disease --- Patients --- Family relationships. --- Venema-de Jong, Geeske. --- Venema, Kathleen Rebecca, --- Alzheimer's Disease. --- Canada. --- Netherlands. --- Uganda. --- civil war. --- conflict. --- correspondence. --- cross-cultural communication. --- cross-cultural identity. --- death. --- dementia. --- dying. --- identity deformation. --- identity formation. --- international development. --- letter writing. --- memory loss. --- mother-daughter relationship. --- post-WWII immigration. --- progressive theology. --- resilience.

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Memory disorders. --- Memory Disorders. --- Memory disorders --- Impairment, Memory --- Memory, Disorders of --- Memory impairment --- Paramnesia --- Age-Related Memory Disorders --- Memory Deficits --- Memory Disorder, Semantic --- Memory Disorder, Spatial --- Memory Disorders, Age-Related --- Retention Disorders, Cognitive --- Semantic Memory Disorder --- Spatial Memory Disorder --- Memory Loss --- Age Related Memory Disorders --- Age-Related Memory Disorder --- Cognitive Retention Disorder --- Cognitive Retention Disorders --- Deficit, Memory --- Deficits, Memory --- Memory Deficit --- Memory Disorder --- Memory Disorder, Age-Related --- Memory Disorders, Age Related --- Memory Disorders, Semantic --- Memory Disorders, Spatial --- Memory Losses --- Retention Disorder, Cognitive --- Semantic Memory Disorders --- Spatial Memory Disorders --- Memory Disorders --- Cognition disorders --- Experimentele psychologie --- geheugen en aandacht.

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This book focuses on the process of cognitive ageing, considering the increase in cognitive impairment associated with the aging of the population and the related care impact. Special attention is given to cognitive health changes linked to the increase in life expectancy, including the role of subjective factors; the link between cognitive function, mobility and functionality; and the potential role of digital technologies, including computerized cognitive tests and virtual reality environments.

Public health & preventive medicine --- memory loss --- virtual reality --- technology --- nature environments --- qualitative research --- dementia --- long-term care --- cognitive aging --- epidemiology --- healthcare disparities --- minority health --- leisure activity engagement --- measurement of activity --- cognitive performance --- aging adults --- sustained attention to response task --- SART --- multimodal visualization --- threshold --- timed up-and-go --- falls --- cognition --- repeated measures --- mobility decline --- molecular imaging --- ICDs --- 18F-FDG-PET --- Parkinson’s disease --- dopamine agonists --- mixed dementia --- behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia --- challenging behaviors --- lockdown --- depression --- adjustment disorder --- glaucoma --- hallucinations --- polypharmacy --- balance --- exercise --- Otago Exercise Program --- n/a --- Parkinson's disease

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Brain damage can cause memory to break down in a number of different ways, the analysis of which can illuminate how the intact brain mediates memory processes. After first considering the problems involved in assessing memory, this book provisionally advances a taxonomy of elementary memory disorders and, for each in turn, reviews both the specific processes that are disrupted and the lesions responsible for the disruption. These disorders include short-term memory deficits, deficits in previously well-established memory, memory decifits caused by frontal lobe lesions, the organic amnesias, the disorders of conditioning and skill acquisition. Particular attention is paid to the organic amnesias, about which we know the most, and to the contributions of animal models to our knowledge. Andrew Mayes argues that the memory deficits found in several neurological and psychiatric syndromes comprise co-occurring elementary memory disorders. Finally, he outlines the implications of his taxonomy for our understanding of normal memory. A wide audience of researchers and students will find Human Organic Memory Disorders a helpful guide to a complex problem area.

Forgetfulness --- Geheugen --- Geheugen--Stoornissen --- Geheugenstoornissen --- Memory --- Memory [Disorders of ] --- Memory disorders --- Mémoire --- Mémoire--Troubles --- Oubli --- Paramnesia --- Retention (Psychology) --- Troubles de la mémoire --- Vergeten --- Memory Disorders. --- Age-Related Memory Disorders --- Memory Deficits --- Memory Disorder, Semantic --- Memory Disorder, Spatial --- Memory Disorders, Age-Related --- Retention Disorders, Cognitive --- Semantic Memory Disorder --- Spatial Memory Disorder --- Memory Loss --- Age Related Memory Disorders --- Age-Related Memory Disorder --- Cognitive Retention Disorder --- Cognitive Retention Disorders --- Deficit, Memory --- Deficits, Memory --- Memory Deficit --- Memory Disorder --- Memory Disorder, Age-Related --- Memory Disorders, Age Related --- Memory Disorders, Semantic --- Memory Disorders, Spatial --- Memory Losses --- Retention Disorder, Cognitive --- Semantic Memory Disorders --- Spatial Memory Disorders --- physiology. --- Memory Disorders --- Impairment, Memory --- Memory, Disorders of --- Memory impairment --- Cognition disorders --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- physiology --- Physiology --- Memory, Disorders of. --- Memory. --- Memory - physiology. --- Life Sciences --- General and Others --- Memory disorders.

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The present special issue will lead you to discover the association between cerebrovascular events, cognitive impairment and atrial fibrillation, through update reviews and original articles exploring the pathophysiological mechanisms underpinning this association and describing the latest results in term of stroke prevention in AF. An interesting scientific journey that reflects the recent advances in pharmacological treatments and interventional procedures involving both mind and heart.

memory loss --- antioxidant --- neuroprotective --- acetylcholinesterase inhibitor --- molecular docking --- atrial --- fibrillation --- venous --- thrombosis --- anticoagulation --- perception --- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease --- atrial fibrillation --- cardiovascular risk --- outcome --- prognosis --- novel oral anticoagulants --- prosthetic valve replacement --- subclinical atrial fibrillation --- stroke --- ischemic cerebral events --- catheter ablation --- screening --- cognitive impairment --- atrial fibrillation ablation --- iatrogenic interatrial septum defect --- paradoxical embolism --- anticoagulant interruption --- cardioversion --- oral anticoagulation therapy --- left atrial appendage thrombosis --- transesophageal echocardiography --- IL1B --- IL1RN --- polymorphism --- inflammation --- cognitive decline --- rhythm control --- microbleeds --- cerebral ischemia --- diabetes mellitus --- metformin --- thiazolidinediones --- GLP-1 receptor agonists --- SGLT-2 inhibitors --- atrial high rate episodes --- NOACs --- non vitamin K oral anticoagulants --- oral anticoagulation --- intracerebral hemorrhage --- cerebral small vessel disease --- brain MRI --- circulating biomarkers --- direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) --- atrial fibrillation (AF) --- electrical cardioversion (EC) --- surgical cryoablation --- left atrial function --- minimally invasive mitral valve repair --- echocardiography --- aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage --- interdisciplinary setting --- metabolic syndrome --- obesity --- dementia --- n/a