Allen,

I fully agree..

Mike does have a fantastic brain!! (and insatiable research skills.. how about a Phd in neuroscience specialising in RSD Mike? I'm sure we'd all chip in to give you a grant if you don't want to work for a uni - and then you can give dr's the cure for us all! )

Eugh - hate the memory problems. My worst is names.. it gets embarrassing when someone who's introduced themselves 10+ times and I STILL don't get their names!

Also, a small bit of random information.. TMS (Trans magnetic stimulation) has been used by an Australian physicist to induce savant skills (exceptional ability within a domain, typically art, music (perfect pitch), hyperlexia (reading), calender calculation or maths (mental maths). Savantism is generally seen in people who have an autistic spectrum disorder, e.g. the movie the rainman). The results were really impressive - people who could only draw averagely drew extremely well, people became expert proofreaders etc for around 40 minutes after stimulation of the left parietal lobe with TMS. Snyder reckons that when TMS is used on the left parietal lobe it allows the person to tap into innate abilities through reducing the executive function of information processing. Oops, sorry, realised this might not be very comprehensible, I studied it in cognitive neuroscience and it really fascinated me

What course are you doing?

Love and best wishes

Rosie xxxx