Finding Dory: Short-Term Remembery Loss, Alzheimer,

Read the passage about short-term remembery loss. Then tell a partner what you understood. 

Based on the informative sites:

http://www.livescience.com/42891-short-term-memory-loss.html

https://bebrainfit.com/stop-short-term-memory-loss/

When a person experiences short-term memory loss, he or she can remember incidents from 20 years ago but is fuzzy on the details of things that happened 20 minutes prior.

There are a number of causes of short-term memory loss, some which are a result of medical conditions and others that are related to injuries or other outside influences.

If you have trouble learning new material or remembering what you just read, or you frequently forget why you walked into a room, you may be dealing with short-term memory loss.

Short-term memory loss is a very common problem but there are a lot of misconceptions about it, and about how serious it is if you’re experiencing it.

You may have heard it’s the first sign of Alzheimer’s.

While this can be true, fortunately it is rarely the case.

Here are a few examples of ways you use your short-term memory during the day:

To temporarily memorize a phone number or appointment date until you jot it down.

To remember a comment you want to make when your companion is done talking.

To prompt yourself when driving, as in “I’ll change lanes as soon as the blue car on my left passes.”

This kind of information quickly disappears unless you make a point to try to remember it.

Your short-term memory also acts as a filter, deciding what’s important enough to keep and what’s not.

Now watch the movie segment and decide which of the issues discussed in the reading can be applied to Dory.

Do (Did) you have cases of Alzheimer in your family? How was it dealt?

Do you think this movie is a good way to introduce such a serious and complex topic to children?

MOVIE SEGMENT DOWNLOAD - FINDING DORY