1. In the movie, Lucy is said to have Goldfield’s syndrome, but Goldfield’s is a make-believe syndrome made by the Hollywood director. However, the actual memory disorder affecting Lucy’s brain is Anterograde amnesia, which is a disorder that especially affects the brain to form new explicit memories. This complication inhibits the capacity of remembering new things.
B) Based on the Actual memory disorder, Anterograde amnesia most of the implicit memory remains intact. This memory disorder doesn’t have the ability to remember new things only remembering the past. Therefore, new memories can’t be created due to the cause of the amnesia after the event.
2. A) Comparing Goldfield’s Syndrome and Anterograde amnesia, They both share features that they can’t remember new things as well they both happen by the damage of the temporal lobe affecting short-term memory. For instance, in the movie Lucy wake up every day thinking it’s the same day of the accident so everything she did that day before the car accident but when she goes to sleep then the next day she does the same thing all over again. She does this action because she can’t remember nor create new memories. Another example is that Lucy can’t remember meeting Henry so every day she sees him as a stranger since he …show more content…
In the movie, Lucy lives the same thing over and over each day pertaining to the Goldfield’s syndrome, but in reality, someone who has Anterograde amnesia it differs in every person because it depends on the amount of time they remember things. Patients like this in reality don’t live the same day over again each day that’s why patient like this usually live in hospitals and stay monitored by
B) Based on the Actual memory disorder, Anterograde amnesia most of the implicit memory remains intact. This memory disorder doesn’t have the ability to remember new things only remembering the past. Therefore, new memories can’t be created due to the cause of the amnesia after the event.
2. A) Comparing Goldfield’s Syndrome and Anterograde amnesia, They both share features that they can’t remember new things as well they both happen by the damage of the temporal lobe affecting short-term memory. For instance, in the movie Lucy wake up every day thinking it’s the same day of the accident so everything she did that day before the car accident but when she goes to sleep then the next day she does the same thing all over again. She does this action because she can’t remember nor create new memories. Another example is that Lucy can’t remember meeting Henry so every day she sees him as a stranger since he …show more content…
In the movie, Lucy lives the same thing over and over each day pertaining to the Goldfield’s syndrome, but in reality, someone who has Anterograde amnesia it differs in every person because it depends on the amount of time they remember things. Patients like this in reality don’t live the same day over again each day that’s why patient like this usually live in hospitals and stay monitored by