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When memory fails, imagination fails with it

The experience of dementia

18th October 2022
| Philosopher and historian of ideas. Her latest book, The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind, is an exploration of brain, self, dementia and medicine based on the stories of neuropsychiatric patients.
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Most of us will know, or have known, a loved one with dementia. As memory slips away, it can take with it language, knowledge and even selfhood. But something beautiful can still remain, writes Noga Arikha.

 

Noga Arikha
18th October 2022

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