The Rag and Bone Shop: How We Make Memories and Memories Make Us

A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. A process that shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behaviour and feeding our imagination.How do our brains store - and then conjure up - past experiences?As a practising psychiatrist, Veronica O'Keane has spent many years observing