Ellen Barry
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459 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Aug
Ellen Barry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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All from the fall.
These are immediate.
The brain bleed had directly affected the hippocampus, which is this part of the brain that's known to be the kind of engine of...
memory that kind of takes in stimulus from the outside world, differentiates and records important stimulus as something that is going to be retained as a memory.
Yeah, looks like a seahorse.
Mm-hmm.
So his injury was on the right hippocampus, which is the part of the brain that organizes your sense of place and location.
And, of course, that is exactly what we have been struggling with for four years.
For sure, what the picture shows and what I experienced lines up.
That, like, the thing that he couldn't do is, like, we couldn't convince him that he was in the right house.
So she told me that there are some memories that can be stored in more protected parts of the brain, like the prefrontal cortex, so that they stick around even if the hippocampus is really damaged.
What you've taught me about the thalamus is the role that it plays in gating.
Yes.
So what she has discovered is that there's an organ in the brain called the thalamus that seems to function as a gatekeeper.
that sends these particularly salient memories, particularly important memories, into the more protected parts of the brain.
Well, that's what she's trying to figure out.
Like, the canary is a kind of traumatic memory.
Other memories, like Tonawanda, that was like a rewarding memory.
Yes, yes.
But are you saying, like, we keep both of them?
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