The Vanishing Act of Memory: What Katie Couric's Amnesia Diagnosis Reveals About Our Bodies Katie Couric's recent experience with temporary amnesia has highlighted the complexities of our brains.
In a Substack post, she detailed how she'd lost several hours of memory after feeling dizzy at an Aspen Ideas Festival panel discussion. The subsequent hospital stay and diagnosis raise more questions than answers.
Amnesia is often described as rare because it occurs in only 5 10 people per 100,000 annually in the United States.