European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To your health studies with human amnesia victims strongly implicate i he importance of the hippocampus and Amygdala m the Irma Hon of memories or Rinnia Milne a no the unit real neurological inst Lulo first to Gorlod More than 30 years ago in her work with an amnesia patient known Only As h w thai those brain structures May be crucial in retention of memories . Who since i9s3 has been incapable of remembering any  new. Lost most of his hippocampus and am Eddu to a surgical pro cd pro designed to euro his epilepsy. To has been Able to Loarn new motor skills such As hitting a Tennis Ball or  skills requiring irial and error but All other new information has evaded . Milner s Early studies Are supported by new evidence from the veterans administration Medica Center in san Diego Itil scaling the roles of deep bran structures in lha formation of memories. Or Stuart Zola Morgan a a neuroscientist who studied an amnesia patient named re. Tor five years Lound Hal the patient was incapable o remembering anything that occurred Afler an illness in which he Tost oxygen Supply to the brain. Analytis of . S brain alter his death showed that the hippocampus was damaged. The hippocampus apparently is involved in the laying Down of memories Zola Morgan said and it May also hold the addresses Lor the storage areas in the brain for some old memories. We Don t know that for certain. That s just a guess. We do know thai animals and people who have damage to the hippocampus can learn new motor skills in a Normal fashion. But declarative inform alien. Information for facts Dales whal you had for breakfast this morning information that requires you to move Back in temporal Lime and place cannot be retained if the hippocampus is  assault to the hippocampus can occur As a result o brain injury surgery or such illnesses As stroke. Zola Morgan said he believes that re s Case suggests that the hippocampus plays a role in the process by which new information is held and Ihen parc eted to other areas of the brain or storage. Because slur clues such As the hippocampus and Amygdala Only temporarily hold information before it is stored scientist in other laboratories re searching Lor Yel other clues that will Lead to a better understanding of How and where memories Are permanently stored in the brain. Making life More memorable. And improve memory by Delthia Ricks drilled press International leading a More memorable life May help enhance memory potential especially for people suffering Aga related memory loss new studies show. Researchers Al the memory disorders clinic at lha University of California Irvine have found in a preliminary study of a aliens with problem a Nemories that teaching them to replace monotonous daily routines Wilh exciting activities can dramatically improve recall people who participate in the program Are encouraged to do whatever amounts to something out of the Ordinary be it going on picnics to buying lires at a different store. We Call this the significant even  said the voice has it by Gayle Young United press International very human voice is As unique As a thumbprint. Wilh its own resonance Pilch and tone Groat voices have led multitudes into War inspired them in speeches enthralled Thorn in Heaters and captured their imaginations Over the radio. And some say voices of poor Quality have ruined acting careers negatively influenced business deals and driven away Romance. A voice is a reflection on the speaker said Morton Cooper a Man who boils Himmell As the voice coach of the stars. In our society impressions  most researchers agree Hinl the sounds people make depend on what Lype of Throat vocal chords and nasal cavities they Ore born Wilh. But Many Alto believe people can change to some degree the Quality pitch and projection of i hair voice if they Are unhappy with the one they have. And some people mostly those who speak to a Low Pilch with Gul teral tones sometimes Are forced to change the Way they talk because years of incorrectly using their voices have ruined their vocal cords. These researchers say accents talking Loo fast or Loo slow stuttering and slurring Are problems of speech they Are interested in the voice the actual sound that is used in speaking generally you can change the Quality and characteristics of your voice to a certain degree said Dae child professor of communicative disorders at Utah state University. Bui a lot depends on the equipment you re born  the sound emitted in speech starts when air from the lungs is forced through the Trachea and vocal cords of the Larynx. From there it gels resonance As it passes through Tho nose and sinus passages Tho Quality of the voice is largely determined by the shape and size of these structures but researchers say Pilch and projection also play a major role and they Are picked up from the environment. People tend to speak in the same pitch and same fashion As did people who were around them when they were learning to speak. Everyone has a Range o pitch they Are born Wilh said child who noted some people Are Betler at hitting High notes and others Low but the habitual pitch. Iho one you use normally in speech May be something you learn from whomever is around you in some cases children Loarn to project their voices through their sinus passageways giving them a nasal Quality Hal is associated Wilh certain regions of the to uni y such As new York these Lype of voice pallens Are practically an acc Cal child said it s obviously Learned behaviour since whole groups of people who arc not related have this similarly Cooper said people can quickly unlearn a nasal Quality voice Wilh some practice and the help of a tape recorder. By projecting their voice outward using the lower Muscles in their in goals they can begin speaking to a More Normal tone. Cooper said people can also learn to change the pitch of their voice if they Leel the one they have is too High or Loo Low. People say to me i Don i like it. It does t look right it s not me " said Cooper who has written a Book change your voice. Change your life " the voice in tied up Inlo All sorts of Emolion and Ide Lily he said Bui they Gat used toil and like it belter if they keep Al  people who do not project their voices through their upper sinus passages at All lend to have deep gut Leral voices that Strain their vocal chords Over the years they can develop inflammation in their cords Hal May Force them to change the Way they speak or lose the voice entirely. Colds and Long bouts of shouting can also slam vocal cords and cause a Tow. Deep voice talking a lot or screaming causes the cords to swell or develop blisters so they can t close  child said so air escapes which a what gives you that breathy Raspy voice when you have a cold sometimes the cords become so inflamed they Slop vibrating and a aliens lose their voice Lor a time. Research has also shown the pitch and Quality of the voice changes Wilh emotion and even with the Lime of Day. One study showed people normally have a lower pitched Rojice in the morning and evening and higher pitched in the afternoon when they Are Alert and excited when people Are tense Muscles contract and voices can come out in a squeak which is Why screams of error Are usually High pitched researchers said. Clinic co director Curt Sandman who believes the technique can help upwards of 20 percent of All age related memory loss problems. The technique is an outgrowth of research by Uci psycho biologists who theorize that exciting events trigger a flood of Neur chemicals in the brain Hal in turn Aid in the recall of those events. Memory loss May gel worse Wilh age because people give up an Active Lile stirring up Neur chemicals less and  Sandman theorizes. My Assumption is thai something dynamic is happening to people when they Are experiencing a significant event something biochemical All of us old enough to remember know whal we were doing the Day John Kennedy was assassinated for people my age said 46-year-old Sandman thai Day is crystallized in our memories we can remember not Only Shat the event occurred with clarity but recall with detail Many of the things that we did that  Signi Lical events do not have to be National tragedies or catastrophes the psycho biologist explained but simple changes in daily routine. We applied this to a aliens with memory toss and with Early aufheimer s patients who had reached retirement age and who had begun to deteriorate mentally. We had them set up significant events with their spouses and we stressed that it had to be something unusual for them he said one of the couples participating in the study nought live a Otie Iru ils they had never before tried and organized a picnic around them. Spending several hours at the event and Lamg special mental note of Iho new tastes. The recall of that Day was so dramatic that the Nona felled spouse just sat there in amazement listening to Allol the things Hal were being recalled Sandman said. In the study of 13 couples. 10 displayed marked improvement by incorporating significant events into their lives Sandman also is study tag How Long the memory enhancement period lasts because he would like 10 Dale mine the size of lha memory window created by significant events " he envisions building Bridges Between those windows to Render people suffering memory toss More functional. Tuesday december 1, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 17