[Cz-health-sci] Memory articles: structure

[Gareth Leng]

Yes, but to some extent we have to work with this; people write about  
their passions and we have to use that constructively - and it's  
really hard to construct good top level articles, they need a very  
considerable investment. Memory is something I know something about -  
but at just one level - the cellular mechanisms involved. Linking the  
neuroscience to the psychology is like building a bridge across the  
Atlantic - and just as vulnerable to continental drift.

PTSD I feel a bit more comfortable about - the editor of ''Stress'' is  
in the next office to me and is one of my oldest friends. So I  
suggessted it knowing that I could probably keep it sane within my  
approximate expertise. It's a well defined syndrome with a solid  
focussed body of research around it. I can work on [[Stress]] as a  
higher level field to it.

I think recovered memory can be fine - see the guidelines on the  
external links s page that really define quite tightly the accepted  
view, along with the bibliography ssummaries. Recovered memory is NOT  
a scientific issue, there's no science tahts relevant, it's just a  
legal issue and a therapy practice issue - very important for both.  
But really there is no science there.


Quoting Howard Berkowitz <hcberkowitz at hotmail.com>:

>
> We don't seem to have a top-level structure about memory in the   
> neurologic sense, although there's more on computer memory. For an   
> assortment of reason, I think we need a top-level one, with various   
> subarticles on types and pathologies.  I'm a bit disturbed with a   
> bottom-up approach that seems to be starting with the controversial   
> issue of recovered memory, an article which blurs into PTSD and   
> legal issues.
>
> Obviously, the neuroscientists among us are better qualified for the  
>  broad view. I'd be delighted if we just started with a good solid   
> Memory/Related Articles pages, with appropriate disambiguation of   
> Memory (biomedical term), to disambiguate from the many kinds of   
> computer memory (e.g., RAM, ROM, CAM, TCAM, EEPROM, etc.) as well as  
>  things such as "memory of water".
>
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Gareth Leng
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