Originally Posted by Tattoo2

I posted this on another forum and wanted to have it here too.
I hope you might be able to help me. I had the typical epilepsy surgery 10 years ago which was successful as far as I am concerned, and I am doing great as far as seizures go. In trying to go forward in this new life, I am in graduate school nd am finding that i might need some sort of adjustment to learning techniques. I don't know if it is just so much material given in a short time, my age now and time since school, or the fact that I have had the surgery that is making it difficult for the material to stick and stay stuck. I usually need to apply the material. Then it will get into long term memory, but we do not get the oopportuiity to apply all of it as there is so much material at once. I get terribly overwhelmed, but what is worse is that the lectures are basically someone reading a power point presentation with little input or rationale with the tests being totally application. Without the rationale or data that should be in between presented at all, it is like being asked and expected to put a puzzle together with no picture and some of the pieces missing. That rationale is missing to me, but I have learned that we are supposed to dig that out ourselves. My question is this. Did anyone who has had this surgery find that they needed other learning strategies after surgery in order to retain and then recall material? What were they and were they effective? It would help me immensely to have other learnng techniques that take into consideration this surgery. I need to be able to apply this material in order to be successful, but the time allowed is short and there is a lot of it. Any input would help.Thanks Tattoo