Forgetting to remember: hypoglycaemic encephalopathy

Forgetting to remember: the functional relationship of decay and interference.

Functional decay theory proposes that decay and interference, historically viewed as competing accounts of forgetting, are instead functionally related. The theory posits that (a) when an attribute must be updated frequently in memory, its current value decays to prevent interference with later values, and (b) the decay rate adapts to the rate of memory updates. Behavioral predictions of the th...

Cortical laminar necrosis due to hypoglycaemic encephalopathy:-images in medicine.

To cite: Rajasekharan C, Jithesh B, Renjith SW. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2012007726 DESCRIPTION A 74-year-old man was brought to emergency services when he was found lying unresponsive in his room. Nearest of the kin reported that his clothes were drenched with sweat and that he was a regular alcohol user who had consumed in excess the previ...

Forgetting to remember or remembering to forget: a study of the recall period length in health care survey questions.

Self-reported data on health care use is a key input in a range of studies. However, the length of recall period in self-reported health care questions varies between surveys, and this variation may affect the results of the studies. This study uses a large survey experiment to examine the role of the length of recall periods for the quality of self-reported hospitalization data by comparing re...

Ability to detect hypoglycaemic symptoms.

Acid to remember

Antibodies against a vaccine vector render T cells more susceptible to HIV-1 infection, say Perreau et al. on page 2717. Their results may help explain the failure of a recent HIV vaccine trial. The HIV-1 vaccine used in Merck's STEP trial relied on a weakened form of a common cold virus, Adenovirus 5 (Ad5), to carry bits of HIV into the body. One worry about the Ad5 vector was that widespread ...