Description
Jill Price is one of about twenty subjects positively diagnosed with the condition hyperthymesia and was the person whose case pioneered such research. She is able to recite details of every day of her life since she was fourteen years old. She can recall various obscure moments of her life in great detail. Her condition, termed hyperthymesia, or "hyperthymestic syndrome", is characterized by a highly superior autobiographical memory.
Her case was originally researched by a team at the University of California, Irvine - Elizabeth Parker, Larry Cahill and James McGaugh. Price can apparently recall every day of her life from when she was 14 years old: "Starting on February 5th, 1980, I remember everything. That was a Tuesday." The first report on the study of her brain was published in 2006. In 2008 she co-authored the book The Woman Who Can't Forget, explaining her life with the condition.
Price's brain was subject to a brain scan and the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex were reportedly normal. It was claimed by research psychologist Gary Marcus, however, that her brain resembled those of people with obsessive compulsive disorder.
Born
December 30th, 1965 in New York City (Age 58)
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