Interesting application of memory palaces for “chemo brain”:
Memory palace: coping with chemo brain
One of Janet’s favorite memory exercises is the “memory palace.” You picture a room in your house and visually put something you want to remember by an object in that room.
“When I want to recall it, I just go back up and walk through the house and that image is there in the entry, and it reminds me of what it is that I’m trying to remember,” Janet explained.
Deborah says learning to group together information – like numbers – helped her.
“I feel like it is getting better, but I don’t feel like I’m where I was before I was diagnosed,” Deborah said.