TIL Agatha Christie’s novel “Elephants Can Remember” reveals distinct signs of Alzheimer’s onset, e.g., 20% fewer words or ⅕ of her vocabulary lost; 6 times more use of nonspecific words such as “thing”, and a sharp drop in “idea density”. That novel's last line is “Maybe it’s OK not to remember.”.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91960-vanishing-words



Submitted April 11, 2015 at 11:40PM by Captain-Janeway http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32931k/til_agatha_christies_novel_elephants_can_remember/