- Jill Price
Jill Price (born in December 1965) is an American author who is thus far the only person discovered who has ability to recite, and thereby relive, all the days of her life since she was fourteen years oldGray, Keturah; Escherich, Katie ' [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4813052&page=1 'It Makes Me Crazy: Woman Can't Forget] ',
ABC News May 9, 2008] —every sad or happy moment, from the dinners she ate to the current affairs of the day. Parts of Price's brain are three times the size of those in other women her age, brain scans show.cite news| last = Elias| first = Marilyn| title = Decades of details flood woman with unmatched memory| work =USA Today| | language =| publisher =| date = May 6, 2008| url = http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-05-07-cant-forget-price_N.htm |accessdate = 2008-05-09 ] Price's condition is calledhyperthymestic syndrome , meaning that she has a superior memory and that the enlarged parts of her brain are areas also associated withobsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The first report on the study of her brain was published in 2006.cite news| last = Parker| first = Elizabeth, et al.| title = A Case of Unusual Autobiographical Remembering| work =Neurocase| | language =| publisher =| date = 2006, vol. 12, page 35-49| url = http://today.uci.edu/pdf/AJ_2006.pdf |accessdate = 2008-06-14 ] She has written a book called "The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science—A Memoir" (ISBN 1416561765), explaining her life with the condition.References
External links
* [http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4824374 Interview with 20/20's Diane Sawyer]
* [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4813052&page=1 ABC News article]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1940420/The-woman-who-can-remember-everything.html Telegraph - The woman who can remember everything]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90596530 Blessed and Cursed by an Extraordinary Memory : NPR Talk of the Nation]
* [http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/05/20080520_b_main.asp On Point with Tom Ashbrook: The Perfect Memory]
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