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Isabelle Muhlbauer

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Lost Memory

If I were to lose all my explicit memory in an accident, the first step would be to try and recover my episodic memories. Although semantic memory is very important, if I were to suddenly wake up in a hospital bed and not remember a single event with the ones around me, I would not think about recovering my semantic memory at first. Because of the emotional roller coaster it must be to suffer retrograde amnesia, I imagine I would like to know who the people around me were and what happened in my life time with them that caused them to be by my side at such a terrible situation. Therefore, the first people I would turn to would be my closest friends and families and use their memories with and of me in order to reconstruct my life. I would also look at family and friends pictures and videos. I suspect that the act of doing all this research might help my brain in recovering memories on its own with the help of the medication.

The emotional journey would definitely  be very confusing and frightening, yet very endearing as I would be reliving important memories with the people most important in my life. I believe at some point I might even feel as though I am very alone, because even though I have my family and friends to help me get through such a difficult time, I don’t feel as connected with them because I cannot remember being with them and cannot remember anything about them. It would be a very empty and dark situation.

Although many people might say they would only like to remember positive and happy memories, I differ in my choice simply because negative and/or painful memories might be very important events that have shaped the person I have come to be. I would not like to exclude such memories just because they would not please me. Both good and bad memories are important for a person who has lost all episodic memory.

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Hellooooo

Hello! My name is Isabelle Muhlbauer, and although my name does not give it away I am, in fact, Brazilian. But that doesn’t represent who I am, at all! Only explains why I sometimes don’t understand what the joke is about. I am currently a sophomore and my intended major is political science.

I am also currently a waitress at Red at the south street seaport. Although I love to work, serving diet cokes and burritos to Europeans and French-Canadians has really been my biggest motivation to do EXTREMELY well in all my classes. I also hate New York. ( :O she what?!) Okay, hate is a very strong word, but lets just say I love quiet places where I can actually not hear anything. Plus, I need to live in a place where it’s cheap to support my shooting hobby. Not like I’m any good at it, but I still love doing it. No, I’m not republican, I’m just a country girl stuck in New York.

On to my favorite classes. Psychology is a lot of information to take in at once, but so interesting that it’s worth it, and required. Sadly, it isn’t my favorite class thus far. That would be globalization, political thought and political theory. Of course, my political science classes. I was briefly involved with USG my first semester and less the second, but a job kind of got in the way, which is a shame. USG is amazing!

Because I also love tennis, not just country…

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"1. After reading the reflection writer’s description, what do you think was happening to them during the meditation on a physiological level? As she explained she became a lot less tense because of the different stretches that had to be done in the Yoga class. Since she had performed Yoga previously, it was much easier to properly meditate. She explains her ability to almost completely "block" thoughts and was able to perform yoga more mindfully which in turn was very relaxing and eased a lot of tension from stress and tiredness. 2. Based on your readings throughout the semester, what areas of their central and peripheral nervous systems may have been effected during the meditation? Meditation is known to relax the body and mind because it activates the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic part of the peripheral nervous system is what brings the mind to its calm stage and lets the brain and body rest. The prefrontal cortex is activated because of the general well being of the body because of its relaxed state. 3. What questions do you have for the writer about their experience? She mentions she had done yoga previously, and so it was easier for her to "tune" out the thoughts. I would really appreciate some tips on how to do this because I have been attempting meditation myself, but the hardest and almost impossible component of it is the "tuning-out" of thoughts. I think if I was able to even slightly silence some of these thoughts while I try to clear my mind, I would be a little more successful with meditation. 4. Based on the description provided, would you be open to trying the same meditation exercise? I'm not sure I will ever do yoga. I would love to try, but I honestly don't have the focus/balance to do it. Mediation I have tried, and have been practicing every so often, but Yoga I'm not so sure of. Perhaps one day I will gather up courage to."
posted on Nov 29, 2011, on the post Revisiting Meditation

"My hypothesis for this study would that students who sleep more will have the better test scores. I think there are a lot of other factors that may end up affecting the results without the researchers intention. Things like what study technique the student who stays up all night use, and previous studying could have been done that may lead to higher test scores regardless of being rested or not. Therefore, instead of testing students, I would ask students to write a paper on a certain topic that none have prior knowledge of. They would also have to be evaluated at being at the same level of writing. But still separate the group into very little rest and a full night sleep prior to writing the paper. I think there would be no negative impacts of this research. There would actually be a very positive result for students to know if rest can be taken into account when taking tests and other school work. The next step might be to conduct this study with different ages and different grades, or even a possibly larger group to check and see if the results still hold."
posted on Oct 4, 2011, on the post Research: What is a more effective way to study? More studying or more sleep?

"Hey lily, I was wondering where I can find out more information about the internship placement program you work for, that sounds awesome. Is there a website I can go to? Or can I just stop by to get some more info?"
posted on Sep 18, 2011, on the post Hello there