Quiz reveals extreme eating facts from CSPID 2010 awards
Cedar Rapids police join Hy-Vee Drugstore to host a medicine disposal event at 2001 Blairs Ferry Rd NE. Bring outdated or unused medicines between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday for safe disposal. Call (319) 393-0539 for details.
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Red Cross Offers Youth Babysitting Training Programs
The Red Cross presents two youth babysitting courses for ages 10 to 15. A two day session June 24 and 25 runs 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Grant Wood Area Chapter, 6300 Rockwell Dr. NE, cost $70 and includes infant CPR and first aid. A one day class runs 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on a Wednesday at the same chapter, cost $40. Pre registration is required with online or phone registration.
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Amnesia alters Bethany Marshall future after sudden memory loss
Gary Marshall finds his daughter disoriented and unaware of family and home. Bethany awakens December 11 2000 with a brain infection erasing a decade of memories. She recalls little of her life as a sister drummer pianist and softball player.
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Trillions of memories stored and lost puzzle scientists
Researchers explore how memory forms in the hippocampus and moves to the frontal lobes for long term storage. Amnesia can follow damage to the frontal lobes, as in Bethanys case where a viral infection caused herpes encephalitis that erased or blocked memory retrieval.
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Bethany Reclaims Memory After Piano Moment
Word spreads as Bethany’s family visits the hospital. Her father explains each visitor while Bethany, like a child, relearns real people and objects. A sudden piano moment reveals Beethoven’s For Elise, proving she had a life before amnesia and memories return through learned actions.
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Caleb
Jessica
Elise
Bethany Faces Relearning Nine Years After College
Bethany enrolled at UNC Greensboro in 2005 with her brother Caleb, living off campus. She graduated in May 2009 and works as a receptionist. Now 26, she wonders if memories would return and reshape the person she is today.
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UNC Greensboro
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Bethany
Secondary high blood pressure usually curable
A reader asks about persistent high blood pressure at 32 despite three medications. Dr. Donohue explains secondary hypertension from an underlying disorder can raise pressure and may reverse with treatment of the cause, urging medical evaluation for tumors, kidney disease, artery narrowing, Cushing’s disease, or coarctation.
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