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On Tuesday, May 17 at 10:00am The Friends of the Murrieta Library present Tara Fall, local author of Brainstorming
The Friends meet in the Community Room of the Murrieta Library at 8 Town Square, Murrieta. The public is invited, refreshments are served.
Seizures took her memory, surgeons took a section of her brain. The resulting stroke took her peripheral eyesight and her ability to remember faces. Yet, nothing could take her spirit and unending drive to share optimism, knowledge and happiness.
Tara Fall, a 37-year-old native of Monticello, Iowa, is one of the 525 people with damage to a specific region of their brain who volunteer as members of the Iowa Neurological Patient Registry, which is coordinated by researchers at the University of Iowa.
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Fall has prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces and a condition she's lived with since suffering a stroke during brain surgery to treat her severe epilepsy in 2003. Since then, Fall has made a point to return to Iowa City each year to work with experts at UI.
Fall, who now lives with her husband and two children in Menifee, Calif., takes part in the research not with hopes of helping her own cause — there are no treatment options for prosopagnosia, just coping mechanisms — but with the idea that she is helping to advance the scientific knowledge of how our brains work.
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The Friends invite you to come and meet this courageous young woman who will be sharing stories about her life with this unusual illness on May 17th at 10am in the Murrieta Library Community Room.
Not only do the Friends of the Murrieta Library provide support to the Murrieta Public Library through fund-raising, advocacy and volunteerism, they promote awareness of and support for the Library as it serves the informational, educational, cultural and recreational needs of our Community. Their monthly meetings serve as a low-key cultural event for our local residents, providing the opportunity to meet, first hand, with established and published authors.
The Library is located at 8 Town Square, on Adams between Juniper and Kalmia in Murrieta.
For more information, please call Rita Nastri 698-8640.
