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Repost from May 9, 2009.
Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News blog know that my Mom died suddenly of meningitis (see here for the story) when I was four and half (actually I was four years, eight months and eight days old; currently I am “47 1/2″ in [...]
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Last week I was in Nashville and flew back on my birthday and reflected on that experience, and got some feedback from others. At the time I was reflecting on some memories from my childhood that weren’t that great, and at the time I simply allowed myself to feel sorry for myself and feel the feelings that were associated with the experiences I had had, as I perceived them.
This week I am in Nashville TN for the Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging Sciences hosted by theVanderbilt Institute of Imaging Sciences in Nashville TN. We learned about how white matter in the brain gradually increases with age but that grey matter increase up until the teenage years and then decreases as a process of pruning of neurons up until the age of 25.
Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News blog know that my Mom died suddenly when I was four and half (actually I was four years, eight months and eight days old; currently I am “47 1/2″ in little kid language but I just say “47″). Anyhoo it pops out in my blogs here and there and to be honest I felt like I was putting myself out there or taking a risk somehow by talking about it. After she died my father soon remarried and it was not a topic of frequent conversation, shall we say.
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