Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Memory Disorders

Abstract

In our presentations many of us acknowledge the intellectual debt we owe to Nelson, but before I begin mine, I’d like to express my gratitude to Nelson on a more personal level. Some of you may have been present at a reunion of Nelson’s students, during which Edith Kaplan described an extraordinary kindness Nelson had extended to her involving the sale of her inoperable, and as far as I can remember, unenterable automobile. I’m sure after hearing that story, most people thought no one could produce a more impressive example of Nelson’s generosity to his friends. However, imagine my plight when eight years ago, having recently left all of my friends at Stanford to join the faculty at UCSD, I found myself a lonely spinster, not getting any younger, and in possession of only one prospect: an enthusiastic but inaccessible Danish pen pal who happened to live 6000 miles away in Oxfordshire, England. After a few months of moping around in a particularly dreary mood, I confided my situation to Nelson, who I was later to find out knew all about it anyway. How he knew I can’t imagine, because as everyone knows, Nelson never indulges in idle gossip.