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A Theory of Mind

Stephanie Bendixsen

In this episode concentrating on memory, we meet the only person in Australia diagnosed with the incredible condition Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory or HSAM, ask a question of the man who discovered HSAM, muse about the nature of memory and then settle down for a conversation with TV presenter and writer Stephaie Bendixsen about her mum Wendy, who suffered from Alzheimer's Disease.

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