Jill Price
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Jill Price is one of six confirmed subjects determined by scientists to have hyperthymesia
and was the person who pioneered such research. She is able to recite details of every day of her life since she was fourteen years old. She can recall various obscure moments of her life in high detail. Price's condition was coined hyperthymesia, or hyperthymestic syndrome. It is characterized by a highly superior autobiographical memory and spending vast quantities of time thinking about one's past. She appears to have enlarged parts of her brain associated with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The first report on the study of her brain was published in 2006.
In 2008, she co-authored the book The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science—A Memoir (ISBN 1416561765), explaining her life with the condition.
Hyperthymesia
Hyperthymesia, also known as piking or hyperthymestic syndrome, is a condition where the affected individual has a superior autobiographical memory. "Thymesia" comes from the Greek word θύμησις thymesis, meaning "memory"...
and was the person who pioneered such research. She is able to recite details of every day of her life since she was fourteen years old. She can recall various obscure moments of her life in high detail. Price's condition was coined hyperthymesia, or hyperthymestic syndrome. It is characterized by a highly superior autobiographical memory and spending vast quantities of time thinking about one's past. She appears to have enlarged parts of her brain associated with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The first report on the study of her brain was published in 2006.
In 2008, she co-authored the book The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science—A Memoir (ISBN 1416561765), explaining her life with the condition.
External links
- Total Recall: The Woman Who Can't Forget (WiredWired (magazine)Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...
: 17.04) - Interview with 20/20's Diane Sawyer
- ABC News article
- Telegraph - The woman who can remember everything
- Blessed and Cursed by an Extraordinary Memory : NPR Talk of the Nation
- On Point with Tom Ashbrook: The Perfect Memory