The impact is probably on kids who have gone through something like this, and it brings back memories and thoughts.

There have been some issues with the medical records. Kids here are so much healthier. The kids who come here can have medical problems that don't even come up in their history when screened.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

To date, the field of memory research has primarily moved forward on two legs - studying subjects with normal memories, or those with memory deficits. This presents the opportunity for a new leg of research, the study of individuals who have exceptionally strong abilities related to memory that do not rely on mnemonic devices, but presumably have more of a genetic basis.

A lot of kids come into this thinking it will be easy. They just want to goof off. But it's a very tough program.

So much of what we're doing is playing catch-up.