Lisa Genova Livres

Brillant professeur a Harvard, Alice Howland adore sa vie, qu'elle partage entre les cours, la recherche et sa famille. Peu de temps avant son cinquantieme anniversaire, elle s'etonne de ses trous de memoire, de plus en plus frequents. Sans doute est-ce le stress. Mais, un jour, Alice se perd dans son quartier en faisant son jogging, et decide de consulter un medecin. Le diagnostic est sans appel: elle est atteinte d'un Alzheimer precoce. A mesure que ses souvenirs s'effacent et que ses reperes disparaissent, Alice doit apprendre a vivre au present. Ecrit du point de vue d'Alice, L'Envol du papillon aborde le sujet de la maladie d'Alzheimer avec force et justesse, et brosse le portrait bouleversant d'une femme qui se bat pour rester elle-meme, jusqu'au bout. Cette histoire a ete magnifiquement portee a l'ecran par Richard Glatzer et Wash Westmoreland, avec Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin et Kristen Stewzrt dans les roles principaux."

One typical morning, Sarah Nickerson, a woman in her mid-thirties, is late for work, racing in her car after dropping her kids off at school and daycare. She tries to phone in to a meeting she should already be at when she takes her eye off the road for a second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. Sarah suffers a traumatic head injury. Her memory and intellect are intact, but she has lost all interest in, and the ability to perceive, information coming from the left side of space. The left side of her world has gone. Sarah only eats the food from the right side of her plate. She can't see her watch, or her engagement diamond or her wedding ring. She tries to use a wheel chair but can only spin in circles as her left arm dangles by her side.

Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you're over forty, you're probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer's or dementia. In reality, for the vast majority of us, these examples of forgetting are completely normal. Why? Because while memory is amazing, it is far from perfect. Our brains aren't designed to remember every name we hear, plan we make or day we experience. Just because your memory sometimes fails doesn't mean it's broken or succumbing to disease. Forgetting is actually part of being human. In Remember, neuroscientist and acclaimed novelist Lisa Genova delves into how memories are made and how we retrieve them. In explaining whether forgotten memories are temporarily inaccessible or erased forever and why some memories are built to exist for only a few seconds while others can last a lifetime, we're shown the clear distinction between normal forgetting (where you parked your car) and forgetting due to Alzheimer's (that you own a car). Remember shows us how to create a better relationship with our memory - so we no longer have to fear it any more, which can be life-changing

A virtuoso performance by the bestselling author of Still Alice, Lisa Genova delivers a stunning novel of finding harmony amidst the most tragic of situations.

From the bestselling author of Still Alicecomes a heartfelt novel about friendship and a mother coping with the loss of her autistic son číst celé

From the bestselling author of Still Alice, adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Julianne Moore, comes another profound and heart-wrenching story.Joe O’Brien is a Boston cop with a disciplined mind and robust physical stamina, skills that have carried him through decades of police work and raising a family with his wife, Rosie. When he begins making out-of-character mistakes—misplacing his police weapon, struggling to write reports, and experiencing slurred speech—he dismisses them as stress-induced lapses. Finally persuaded to see a doctor, Joe receives a shocking diagnosis: Huntington’s disease.Joe’s life is irrevocably changed, and each of his four grown children faces the devastating fifty-fifty chance of inheriting this genetic disease. His daughter Katie, a yoga teacher, observes her father’s decline with both dread and empathy, wrestling with the uncertain future it foreshadows. She’s determined to make the most of the present and find ways to care for her dad, who, despite everything, is still the Joe O’Brien she knows and loves.Inside the O’Briens is a powerful, heartfelt tribute to resilience and the strength of the human spirit, capturing the courage it takes to face an uncharted future.

Includes reading guide and interview with author.

Zásadní kniha, která umožní porozumění vlastní paměti. Lidská paměť trpí nespornými slabostmi. Čím to, že si něco zapamatujeme a něco ne? Proč si člověk vzpomíná na svou první pusu a na desátou už ne? Nevýhodou je, že pořádně neovládáme manuál naší paměti. Aby pracovala efektivně, bez zapomínání se totiž někdy neobejde. Byť je zapomínání nepříjemné a frustrující, tvoří zcela přirozenou součást našeho člověčenství. Jestliže porozumíme, jak paměť doopravdy funguje, její výpadky nás přestanou vyvádět z míry. Zbavíme-li se zbytečných strachů a obav a poznáme, jak paměť funguje, jaký v sobě skrývá potenciál a v čem tkví její omezení, otevře se nám možnost své paměťové schopnosti zlepšovat. Renomovaná americká neurovědkyně Lisa Genova ve své nejnovější knize poutavě a na mnoha názorných příkladech ze života i z nejrůznějších psychologických experimentů vysvětluje, jak funguje lidská paměť. Od autorky bestselleru Pořád jsem to já.

Erschrecken Sie, wenn Ihnen der Name eines bekannten Menschen nicht einfällt? Wenn Sie nicht wissen, warum Sie in einen bestimmten Raum gegangen sind? Sind das simple Gedächtnislücken oder bedenkliche Anzeichen? Lisa Genova beruhigt: Unser Gehirn kann sich nicht alles merken, Vergessen gehört zu seinen Grundfunktionen. Was unser Gedächtnis leistet, grenzt an ein Wunder. Aber perfekt ist es nicht. Vergesslichkeit ist etwas ganz Natürliches. Lisa Genova erklärt, wie Erinnerungen entstehen und wie wir sie abrufen können, und zeigt, wie es uns gelingt, Erinnerung zu gestalten und zu sichern und wie wir durch das Vermeiden toxischer Verhaltensweisen unser Erinnerungsvermögen steigern und das Risiko von Alzheimer und Demenz minimieren.