The show got multiple aspects of anterograde amnesia correct. The woman suffered a traumatic brain injury at the hands of a serial killer and displays symptoms of profound anterograde amnesia. Her working, procedural, and semantic memory systems are preserved, however, her episodic memory is left substantially impaired. “When a person has difficulty learning or remembering new information, it is called anterograde amnesia” (Seamon, 2015). The woman displayed several hallmark characteristics of episodic memory loss as she couldn’t remember people she had just met.…
These studies have also presented questions to allow for further research, especially when it comes to the odd case of the patient who developed anterograde amnesia from a common dental procedure. For the most part, research on anterograde amnesia does not contain many contradictions. Certain gaps exist in amnesia research, specifically regarding brain surgery and the hippocampus. It is hard to say exactly what the future of amnesia research will lead to but it is important to continue to develop care and treatment options for patients.…
Our expectations, experiences, and current knowledge all affect how memories are created. Many people do not realize how flawed our memory can be. The largest component of our memory is called autobiographical memory, it is a collection of memories that can describe our past. Autobiographical memory includes both episodic and semantic memory. For example, we can remember hiking in the Smokey mountains, seeing all the trees and remembering some of the conversations we had with friends (episodic memory) ; It might also include how you traveled to the Smokey mountains (by plane or car) or a list of your hiking gear and the time of day you hiked (semantic memory).…
Imagine not knowing why one was afraid to open the trunk of their car. Forgetfulness is a sign of an unreliable narrator. According to www.nownovel.com, an unreliable narrator is a character who tells the reader a story that cannot be taken at face value. In “Strawberry Spring” by Stephen King, the narrator is a serial killer who kills students on campus and attempts to portray the infamous Jack the Ripper. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator has postpartum depression and relieves her stress in a journal that her husband does not know about.…
P1: Describe types of dementia and common signs and symptoms Dementia is what’s known as an “irreversible brain disorder affecting different parts of the brain, causing an effect on a range of functions” Bartle (2007). Every from of dementia is a progressive condition, this means that the brain will become damaged more over time, this therefore means a person’s ability to remember, communicate and understand what goes on around them may will decline. When researches such as scientists look at dementia they find that the progression of dementia will alter between different individuals as they may experience different stages of dementia. When identifying and diagnosing dementia in people often in later adulthood they will look at what stage…
For some people there are experiences that can be so disturbing their brain will try to protect them by repressing the memory. In the show "Grey's Anatomy" the main character's cold-hearted mother and traumatic childhood played a role in causing a few of her memories to be repressed. The process of "motivated forgetting" might also occur when trying to recollect a memory that is painful or anxiety-laden. There are times when retrieving a repressed memory because it contains important information is necessary. Most likely an eyewitness testimony during some sort of police investigation.…
Trauma-Related Amnesia: A Window of Uncertainty in the Serial Podcast The malleability of memory is an enigma. While it can be unpredictable at times, we can manipulate our brains to extract memories. In court cases, however, extracting memories becomes problematic and challenging.…
Introduction Mental illness is prevalent in today’s society. 18.1 percent of all American adults are currently living with a mental illness, with 4.1 percent having a condition severe enough to considerably interfere with day to day activities.18 In total, this is 43.6 MILLION people who struggle with anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, bipolar, borderline personality, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, OCD, PTSD, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophrenia. Overall Female…
In an experiment conducted by Zola-Morgan (1986), an amnesic patient named R.B. had damage to one specific region (CA1) of the hippocampus, therefore, supporting that damage limited to the hippocampus is enough to cause amnesia. This indicates that Nolan portrayed Lenny’s amnesia with a basis in creating lesions in the hippocampus and greater MTL regions, however, the severity of both Lenny’s retrograde and anterograde amnesia are contentious. A study done by Race and Verfaellie (2011) found that “the magnitude of semantic learning deficits in amnesia has been found to correspond to the amount of MTL damage.” This idea shows that Nolan inaccurately portrayed the extent of Lenny’s anterograde amnesia as his seems to be as severe as H.M.’s who had MTL region removal, whereas Lenny had a traumatic brain injury which would not have as greater MTL damage as surgical removal. Lenny is portrayed as being completely reliant on his artificial memory system and any attempts at learning new episodic or semantic memories are completely impaired to the extent that H.M. is described to be.…
The information in the movie has been used incorrectly in some cases, but the movie provide some truth information in physiological way with that said the movie also includes psychological concept and depict. The movie has provided information, which is inaccurate because people who suffer from amnesia do not usually forget themselves every morning, but in the beginning of the movie it shows that the main character Christina doesn’t know herself. “Anterograde amnesia is the inability to remember events and experiences that occur after an injury or the onset of a disease” (Feist and Rosenberg, 279). Furthermore, for the accurate information director Rowan joffe has used the physiological behavior of a person when she looses her memories. For example, to use this concept as a memory, Christine waking up every morning, not remembering anything, who she’s with, where she is and who’s the person that next to her.…
One of the most popular subjects on the big screen and television that takes our attention very often, is a form of memory loss known as amnesia. People refer to amnesia usually as a mental illness that makes you forget everything about the past. But that is not right, and it is not wrong either. Yes, amnesia has to do with memory loss, but that does not mean that if a person is diagnosed with amnesia he/she will not remember anything at all from the past. Forgetting everything is only the primary aspect of amnesia.…
Have you ever wanted to escape reality? Most people do this via hobbies: being taken away by a good fiction book, video games: creating your own avatar or acting as another character and recreational activities: sinking your head into a sport, or running of to Europe on a spontaneous vacation. Unfortunately 7% of the population unwillingly escape their own reality and suffer from a dissociative disorder at some time in their life. “Dissociative disorders are characterized by an involuntary escape from reality characterized by a disconnection between thoughts, identity, consciousness and memory” (Mental Health America). As mentioned before, escaping through hobbies, getting lost in a book, your favorite game, or even when a person is driving down a long road and realizes that they don’t remember the…
Even though dementia can cause one not to remember, Dementia is more commonly known as Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists see that there is more than one type of dementia there are at least ten types of this disease. These diseases are all under different psychological names. Dementia basically is a name that is used to tell the person that overall your brain is losing information (brain cells). There are so many reasons why dementia happens it could be caused by a stroke, old age and maybe even too much alcohol use.…
The 2004 movie 50 First Dates is a romantic comedy about a woman named Lucy who wakes up every morning believing it is October 13, her father’s birthday. After a traumatic brain injury resulting from a car accident, Lucy suffers from a fictional amnesia called Goldfield’s Syndrome. Although there are elements of truth in Lucy’s amnesia, her symptoms are ultimately a poor depiction of amnesia and the movie contains many factual inaccuracies about memory. This paper will analyze the cause, symptoms and treatment of Lucy’s amnesia and compare her experience to what is known about amnesia from neuropsychology.…
This may not seem crucial, however, what if this inability to recall what happened that day could possibly ruin someone’s life? This appears…