Hyperthymesis

I've been noticing, via the internet, that many Ancient Greek scholars are puzzled into aporia by this announcement from the University of California at Irvine concerning hyperthymestic syndrome which attributes the etymology of the term to thymeis, claiming thymesis meant memory in Ancient Greek.

http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1450

Searching in lexica and the internet, I haven't found such. My hypothesis is that the root of the word is thymus ( Betacode Greek = qu/mos ), which was the seat of the emotions to the Ancients. This is the "heart" of poetry and the scriptures. Memory has been shown to have a strong correlation with emotion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_memory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia