How to Improve your Memory

via Mind Hacks:

I've just been invited to blog here among other neurogeeks, and I'm so excited to contribute, especially among such great company!

Memory: I always have trouble remembering names of things. Memory seems like a fickle thing, at least to me, when I struggle with names of molecules or proteins. Well, Mind Hacks reports that the BBC had a program on memory, and now they have a site dedicated to the study of memory (expanded off the program). And speaking of memory, Eric Kandel's new book In Search of Memory is an excellent read. Neurophilosopher gives a review of the book; I highly recommend it, as I just finished this summer. As a hopeful neuroscience grad student, the book has a lot of insight for someone on "the track", whose thoughts and experiences intersect with the science they study; for non-science people, it will show the reader how the path of a life is connected to the path of science.