Memory
Fasting serum lipids have been associated with short term verbal memory. In a large sample of middle aged adults, low HDL cholesterol was associated with poor memory and decreasing levels over a five year follow-up period were associated with decline in memory.
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Famous quotes containing the word memory:
“Vashtar: So it’s finished. A structure to house one man and the greatest treasure of all time.
Senta: And a structure that will last for all time.
Vashtar: Only history will tell that.
Senta: Sire, will he not be remembered?
Vashtar: Yes, he’ll be remembered. The pyramid’ll keep his memory alive. In that he built better than he knew.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“His memory is like wares at the auction—going, going, and anon it will be gone.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Ah! you can die, the world can collapse, I have lost the one I love. I must now live in this terrible solitude where memory is torture.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)